The time has come to get rid of enrage timers

[Starflake]

"And since we're not all uber gosu top .2% players of our classes, it means everyone has to pull their weight and a bit more. Every GCD not spent optimizing damage is a GCD that could mean Exdeath Meteor's your group instead of transitioning to Neo. So I say, let's get rid of enrage timers."
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You do not need to be an uber .2% player and it's also not true that everyone has to pull their weight. I am in a very diverse static where some players are better than others. Some play at a decent level, some play at a higher level. We can get past Ex Death with four deaths and that's saying something as our total DPS was never amazing. Seems like you are a walking hyperbole that's detached from reality. DPS checks haven't been difficult since Gordias.
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" if you don't have the ilvl or character level to enter a certain duty, then you just can't enter it. So if a person has the ability to enter an duty, why further restrict their ability to complete said duty by imposing another arbitrary hurdle to overcome?"
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Because having a minimum item level ensures that you will be able to at a minimum contribute in a meaningful way. The ilvl requirement is bypassed by being in a full party. Most likely under the presumtion that if you are part of a full party, people know and/or can deal with you appropriately and timely when being undergeared. If you are joining Zurvan Extreme with ilvl 130 gear equiped, then you are wasting that party's time by making the clear that much more difficult. You will never contribute in a meaningful way and your lack of HP will only hinder the party even more. So asking why an enrage on top of this is necessary is incredibly stupid.
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"SE apparently doesn't want people using DPS meters because reasons, yet they build encounters in a game that implicitly encourage the kind of behavior they say they are against. Fine. Do you want to stop this kind of stuff SE? Then stop it with the enrage timers."
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DPS meters will always be desirable to an extend even if you take away enrages. Pushing bosses and clearing faster for farm parties. Do you think Dragoons that do 2000 DPS on Alt Roite are suddenly going to be excused while everyone else is in the 4-5000 range? You think people are going to be cool with 12 minute Alt Roite runs becaus there is no enrage anymore? Delusional! Maybe if we had more enrage timers, people would actually take the MINIMUM effort it requires to play a job to a capable level and we could all be happy instead.
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This all in all is some very poor argumentation as to why enrage timers should not be a thing. I'm getting pretty tired of people further dumbing down this game, more and more. Remember, the game is reflective of its playerbase. The dumbing down of class complexity is a subtle slap in the face because the community on average is deemed as too stupid to meaningfully learn an already easy system. And they would be correct in my experience. Even now, the average joe is simply not good enough. We don't need to encourage that even further.
Skipping Soar in Zurvan Ex for example. Required AVAREGE DPS. People were moaning about it being too hard. So not only was the DPS low, the DPS needed to be higher in order to avoid mechanics. How much of a circus was that?
Enrage timers, as they are right now, have a good balance to allow average players to also clear the content. It's fine the way it is.