Quote Originally Posted by Semirhage View Post
Yoshi's still mad about Black and White mage parties steamrolling ARR dungeons. It's why he added trash pack gating in all future dungeons and diminishing returns to mage AOEs (but not physical). He only relented on the mage diminishing returns for the ones that got the everloving shit nerfed out of their potencies.
That only part of why they added gates. >w>
Back in the day, all the way back to when Wanderer's Palace and Amdapor Keep were the end-game tome grinds, what speed runners would do is grab all the trash and run to the boss rooms, start the boss fight, and hold the enemies at the boss room's entrance until it closed, resetting all the trash mob's aggro and making them run back to their original spots. This was back when tanks and healers stance-danced, making it really hard for newer tanks and healers. What made it worse was that there were people who expected speed-run strats in pugs.