Worth reposting here: Hands on with new Scholar in Titania trial at E3

[Reiryuu]

healing and fight mechs are gonna be drastically different yoshi says in the live letters some will be similar tho. so people need to play the content first and see how it flows.

The difficulty of the Eden raid will be close to that of the creator (Alexander floors 9~12). They expect players to not be used to the lv 80 jobs, so the required DPS will be lower than usual. Instead, the mechanics will be fancy and might make up for the lowered DPS checks to bring it back up to the usual difficulty.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...w_with_yoship/

Hmmmm... I dunno about you, but none of that really sounds like healing and fight mechs are going to be drastically different. Someone who does more savage content may be able to correct me, but... aren't failed mechanics essentially death in Savage? That's not really an increased healing demand, but an increased raising one if anything.

[Shinklet]

Isn't these "I beat Titania" type fights for press dumbed down a lot because it's intended to be beaten by people who have never played the game? I'm as nervous as everyone but I really wouldn't use that as the definitive answer to this question.

No.

They're usually 'beta' versions of the fight where things haven't been finalised for the normal trial.

Sometimes they will have an EX mechanic, sometimes they'll be easier, than a normal.

[Dyvid]

Easy Allies E3 Interview

First question is about Healers. 5.0 is basically the beta test where we try it out, give feedback, and then they'll adjust after that.

[Reiryuu]

Easy Allies E3 Interview

First question is about Healers. 5.0 is basically the beta test where we try it out, give feedback, and then they'll adjust after that.

Yeah. And they did such a good job with that in Stormblood... oh wait... isn't that why we're in this mess in the first place? And why do we have to pay $40 + 14/mo for a beta test? Isn't that... you know... what beta testers are for?