5.3 Preliminary Patch Note

[Goji1639]

You don't need to live through your first encounter with a boss or mechanic. It's okay to die, wipe and die again.

There is literally no down side apart from a few gil in repair bills if you haven't leveled crafters.

It's perfectly fine.

The downside is a poor learning environment and/or an extremely lackluster experience for new players.

New player gets to the boss... He dies because there's no way to know what to do... The group clears the fight anyways... The new player doesn't experience that mechanic again until maybe 3 expansions later...

So, what did the experience boil down to for the new player? A shitty, cheap 1 hit kill death with no telegraph, that he had no fair chance to avoid, that didn't even serve as a decent teaching mechanism; because he couldn't put the lesson into practice.

It's just bad design that leads to an extremely mediocre experience for new players. Good riddance.

[Ammokkx]

New player gets to the boss... He dies because there's no way to know what to do... The group clears the fight anyways...

If the group keep fighting without the newbie then that means the healer isn't using their ressurection

And I highly doubt that if the healer isn't using their resurrection they could even make it past the first boss

[Goji1639]

If the group keep fighting without the newbie then that means the healer isn't using their ressurection

And I highly doubt that if the healer isn't using their resurrection they could even make it past the first boss

The DPS might get a res, or the healer might not bother. It's not exactly a difficult fight; it just has 1 lame mechanic that serves as an unavoidable blindside death for new players. In my experience healers usually let the new player stay dead; either being lazy or the group is struggling enough where the healer doesn't have the time/mana.

Doesn't matter, though; it's still a garbage mechanic, as it misses the mark on pretty much every rule established for even decent combat gameplay. The fact that healers can work around it if they feel like it, or you could just look up the mechanic yourself before the fight, doesn't make it good.