Quote Originally Posted by bswpayton View Post
Never said the freaking expert dungeons where hard. Read a live letter the devs said we expected people to clear 1 and 2 and struggle with 3 and 4. And flogs back that up get off ur high horse has nothing to do with me. I'm stating facts from devs and collective data ur just talking about ur opinion
If you’re citing Live Letters and “hard facts”, then source them, then. Since you’re so insistent on proving that your point is “right.” As for what you’re referring to, you should probably make your posts more clear so that others can understand what you’re saying. Because, from what I gathered, you’ve been discussing your opinion on Ultimate this entire thread, and how unwarranted it is. That sounds very opinionated to me.

As for your comparison to PUGs and statics, you realize that statics can stuggle just as much with tiers than PUGs can, right? Static members can have members just rage-quit after a couple wipes because they just aren’t feeling it one night. My first static was stuck on v3s for 5-6 weeks because of the constant rotation of healers and OTs we had, and a lot of people, including myself, just left the party after a few wipes to Hali because it gets frustrating wiping to the same thing over and over. My second static has off-nights where our v1s runs are ridiculously messy for whatever reason—just last night 3 of us lagged out in the middle of V3S and we spent far longer than necessary on it.

You’re making it sound like PUGs try harder than those with statics, and that is not always the case; people in statics try just as hard. Perhaps, instead of telling people to get off of their high horse, you should stop your broad generalizations. PUGs don’t always have it harder than those in statics, not everyone parses, not everyone uses callouts, and not everyone uploads to FFlogs, so your “hard data” on clear rates that you seem to be basing just off of uploaded data to FFlogs is going to be off. Because not everyone reports to FFlogs.

As for V3S and V4S comparisons, they are easier than A11S and A12S were at launch, which were easier than Midas, which was easier than Gordias. Shinryu, while more challenging than Susano or Lakshmi, is not as challenging as Thordan was at release, the primal that corresponds with Shinryu. The progression new raids and Ex trials seem to have towards the easier/lighter difficulty scale can be quite a bit of a let down for those that are looking for more. Ultimate gives those people that want more the “more” they want. Sorry that you don’t like that.