Discussing your 'unpopular' opinions

[Bourne_Endeavor]

No, it was a direct result of speedruns that progressively became easier and easier to do as our gear increases. It's power creep.

I hate the mass pull meta. The only class that has anything "dynamic" to do is the tank handling the aggro and properly balancing CDs. DPS are forced to smash their one or two AoE skills or be "bad". Healers are often left either doing exactly the same one button AoE spam or, if they're *lucky* that day, desperately over exert themselves to keep a lackluster tank that's overcompensating alive. Or be the one blamed or kicked if tank dies.

There is nothing remotely entertaining about that. Especially when alternative of regular pulls still lets you play rotations and while moving along quickly. It's just impatient people being so enabled to play the game in the most monotonous way possible because meta demands it.

People were mass pulling back in ARR. The whole reason gates were gated throughout Heavensward because people could do insane chain pulls in Brayflux Hard.

Single pack pulls are insufferably boring for me on healers imo. I literally serve no purpose except to spam Stone IV, which essentially makes me an inferior DPS. At least with mass pulls, I will rotate between Holy spam and healing. Power creep has nothing to do with dungeons. They're simply extremely undertuned. Both Hell's Lid and Fractal are set at ilvl 310 and drop 225 gear. The gear we had last cycle is already 30 ilvs above the supposed "Expert" dungeons. That's what allows speedrunning. Look no further than PotD where the higher floors smack you into the ground for daring to chain pull like a reckless fool. If you want the speedrun meta to die, advocate for dungeons to draw inspiration of PotD.