The health problem of hiding numbers while catering to high-end raiders

[Absimiliard]

Had the very tools they condemn not exist, many parties trying to complete the 6.2 raid tier prior to the hotfix to tank damage could have found themselves chasing an impossible goal, hurting themselves in much the same way as the players that tried to take down Absolute Virtue in FFXI.

Okay, no. I'm far from the biggest fan of XIV's current development decisions, but this is not a fair comparison at all. I fought that thing, and I can assure you it wasn't just a simple matter of wiping repeatedly to an "overtuned" encounter. Absolute Virtue was a matter of having to stay awake for days on end just to have any shot at killing it only to probably wipe at the last second anyway (or give up after it full healed using some BS you couldn't prevent). FFXI's devs kept nerfing different ways people found to kill the bloody thing before they finally had to cave in and make it not completely insane.

FFXIV's devs by comparison may overtune things from time to time (intentionally so in the case of Alexander's first tier), but that is as far as it goes. None of their fights are at a level where you will harm yourself by attempting to complete them, overtuned or not.

[Midareyukki]

Okay, no. I'm far from the biggest fan of XIV's current development decisions, but this is not a fair comparison at all. I fought that thing, and I can assure you it wasn't just a simple matter of wiping repeatedly to an "overtuned" encounter. Absolute Virtue was a matter of having to stay awake for days on end just to have any shot at killing it only to probably wipe at the last second anyway (or give up after it full healed using some BS you couldn't prevent). FFXI's devs kept nerfing different ways people found to kill the bloody thing before they finally had to cave in and make it not completely insane.

Didn't the devs also release a video on how to kill it, only for it to not only be too vague, their method would get patched out anyway too?