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  1. #11
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    Hyperia's Avatar
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    Gridania
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    Aileen Pureheart
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    Sargatanas
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    White Mage Lv 100
    The semi-permadeath in DRS is what is preventing me from even trying it, same with the Eureka raid. I know I will make mistakes and get myself killed, it’s going to happen. Because of that, I don’t want to do it because everybody will get mad at me for dying all the time. I don’t like that mechanic one bit.
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  2. #12
    Player lezard21's Avatar
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    Arngrim Hallbjorn
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    Louisoix
    Main Class
    Warrior Lv 80
    Quote Originally Posted by Hyperia View Post
    The semi-permadeath in DRS is what is preventing me from even trying it, same with the Eureka raid. I know I will make mistakes and get myself killed, it’s going to happen. Because of that, I don’t want to do it because everybody will get mad at me for dying all the time. I don’t like that mechanic one bit.
    That's not the issue. There are a lot of ways to circumvent the perma-death in both Arsenal and DRS. In fact in Arsenal there is generally a party of experienced players that carry Autorez-Sacrifice Logos to revive new players in learning runs.

    The problem with DRS is that aside from being a lot more mechanic intensive than Arsenal, the bosses are insane HP spongewalls, so everyone of the 48 people need to be using DPS essences and damage enhancing Lost Actions (Seraph Strike, Flare Star, Dervish), and some bosses require specific Lost Actions like Dispel, Aethershield, Reflect, Manawall, Perception and all this on top of a couple of Reraisers and in the case of healers Arise...and unless you are extremely lucky and can find a group that is willing to take a newbie, you will have to somehow find 47 other new people, meaning you would need a lot more essences for prog runs.

    As a result of all this, you'll either have to spend an insane amount of time farming Clusters and Fragments or drop a ton of gil on the marketboard. DRS is both grindy AND expensive to do, and all of this just for a Mount and gear set that lacks any other purpose but flexing since everything in Zadnor is easily clearable without even Bozja gear.
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    Deceptus's Avatar
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    Deceptus Keelon
    World
    Behemoth
    Main Class
    Sage Lv 90
    I'd love a way to down covert to the original coins because 450/999 coins for a single piece of gear is insane. Especially when an CL drops maybe 20-50
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    Veteran healers don't care if we need to heal, but right now we don't. We want interesting things to do during the downtime other than a 30s dot and a single filler spell that hasn't changed from lvl 4 to lvl 90.
    Dead DPS do no DPS. Raised DPS do 25/50% lower DPS. Do the mechanics and don't stand in bad stuff.
    Other games expect basic competence, FFXIV is pleasantly surprised by it. Other games have toxic elitism. FFXIV has toxic casualism.[/LIST]

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