Byakko... HM or EX ?

[TheAngelneer]

Byakko ex is perfectly tuned and balanced for what it rewards. If the rewards were 365 weapons you could justify a higher difficulty but for 355? No, absolutely not. As someone that’s beaten O4S on content, I consider shinryu ex to be an overtuned piece of garbage fight with rewards not worth the effort. Byakko on the other hand? Again, for what it rewards you, the difficulty is perfect.

This. Byakko gives you an entry level weapon to patch 4.2, it is roughly equivalent to a HQ ilvl350 crafted weapon: same weapon damage, slightly better stats, but can't be overmelded. If you don't have (or know) max level, decently geared crafters, you have the choice of tossing a few million gil into to MB or learn the fight and farm Byakko for the new standard of weapons in 4.2.

It is not a broken fight handing out overpowered weapons like they were candy.

Ding ding ding. I'm actually really hoping they patch this out so that parties where nobody breaks 4k DPS can't clear it

Wow, such pettiness. What is the problem, those "scrubs" running around with Byakko weapons and mount are hurting your pro-player feelings?

If you want to show to the world how much of a cool kid you are you should be considering that title from Ultimate, and not something from Byakko.

I guarantee you it wasn't. They simply don't adapt to our cheese strats. This same thing happened with Zurvan, thus creating the ever beloved "Skip Soar or disband" memes. The dev team has difficulty with the NA/EU mindset. JP does the mechanics almost as a show of respect. NA/EU only care about getting through the fight the fastest way possible. If we can break a fight, we're going to do it.

You make it sound like ingenuity is a bad thing. Tank LB is a tool handed out to the players long ago, if people can't see past using it only when it is mandatory like A12 that is a limitation of their own.

If the possibility of skipping the second tiger with a tank LB3 was intended or not we will only know if the devs ever outright state it. But as others have said, they could have easily just turned it into insta-death no matter what if they really wanted.

There is no disrespect or disregard for the developers by being creative on tackling the challenges they put in our way, unless someone is outright cheating or using exploits.