Quote Originally Posted by NovaLevossida View Post
After 2.0 Northern Thanalan FATEs, specialty FATES like Odin and Ixion spanning 2.0 to 4.0, S rank hunts, and Diadem, they clearly could not have expected players to zerg rush or even anticipate DoT / model display issues with so many years of relevant experience with the problem. Clearly.
I am farily certain their Eureka image was: Groups gather in grind parties and slowly level, giving people something to do till the next patch hits.

What they didn't anticipate is the NM train. Henche the game being absolutely not prepared for that.