Omega and future raid concerns

[Bourne_Endeavor]

The problem is that nobody ever earns their clear for these. That's why you see a jump from 1% completion to 3% once players can outgear it, and to 10% once they can unsync it. If SE was being savage content, savage content would be locked to a gear and item level cap so that it can be done at the standard 15% below maximum DPS contributed player DPS that Yoshi-P designs it for. If you want a slightly faster clear, then die less and let the healers and tanks add some DPS to it. Those extra 10 seconds woo s/.

Citation needed.

We have Lucky Bancho—a JP player, by the way—who does a census on clear rates; before echo and unsyncing becomes available. The 7-10% cited for Creator froze before Stormblood even released. So no, it isn't artificially bumped later. Nice try though.

First, that is exactly what the Raiders do when they demand PUG's play like them and do big pulls. Second, the developers need to let PS4 players play the content, and thus "PC master race" players with whatever else the PC creates an advantage for is not what they will ever tune it for.

If they designed a fight that could only be won by using every dirty trick available to the PC, there would be a worldwide 0% clear rate, there are conditions that could be made where only someone with a $10,000 PC, and the reflexes of a 16 year old could ever win the content. That's why fights are tuned to even less than PS4 levels. The game still needs to be playable on a potato laptop.

There is no "this is perfect for all raiders" level of difficulty. There is "10% of players can clear this", there is "1% of players can clear this", and then there is "only 2 people will clear this." Floor 200 of PotD Solo is the latter. No matter what level it's tuned to, someone will think it's not hard enough and still complain.

Funny, because I see just as many non-raiders doing massive pulls. Perhaps it has less to do with raider mentality and more the dungeons tuned to such a laughable degree people recognize it's more time efficient to pull everything and AoE them down.

Please tell me you aren't insinuating the game is tuned so low due to PS4 and low end PCs. Not only does that have absolutely no impact on mechanics whatsoever, it screams ignorance. You are talking with someone who started this game on a laptop that couldn't muster 30 FPS at 1080p yet I cleared content without an issue. Even now I play below 60 FPS, albeit at 4k. Difficulty has nothing to do with your setup otherwise games with far more challenging content couldn't exist. WoW offers Mythic+ dungeons. How does that work when it functions on PCs with even lower specs than FFXIV?

And yet no one complained Brute Justice or Ultimate weren't hard enough. In fact, the raid community has only complained Savage became too easy when it was watered down. And complained again when our promised alternative was reduced two fights in two years instead of three. Contrary to your bias, raiders acknowledge there is a limit to how difficult you make things. That doesn't mean you go the opposite extreme and make everything brain dead easy. If players struggle to heal things like World of Darkness, Antitower or story mode instances, that means they aren't as good as they perceive themselves—advice I would suggest you take to heart in lieu of insisting people play White Mage wrong.