Quote Originally Posted by Liam_Harper View Post
To be fair, although trying to balance Bozja is a bad idea, there is some point to the argument.

For example if you look at it in reverse, if Flare Star didn't exist and someone posted a thread asking the devs for a Lost Action that could trivialize duels in 40 seconds, they'd be flamed off the forums. It'd be a wall of "lol troll thread" and "challenge is good, git gud". But when people have already been given something that makes content easier, they cling to it and are extremely reluctant to give it up.

This is why game developers make existing content easier far more often than making it more challenging. Once people have a taste of the easy mode, there's uproar if you try to take it from them.
I feel like this accurately sums up the whole pro-Flare Star cheesing mentality in a nutshell.

Heaven forbid people want content that was designed as a challenge to...y'know, actually be a challenge.

And as much as some argue that there's stuff that's "almost as broken as Flare Star", there really isn't. The two biggest sources of damage after that are Bloodrage chaining and insanely loaded WHM openers that combine the bloated Ordained + Chainspell buff with Essence of the Profane to tear off 20-30% of the boss' HP in the first minute or so, but both still require you to actually do at least one cycle of mechanics to finish the duel. An optimized Flare Star can kill all three Zadnor duels in a little over a minute with no need to actually repeat the opener.