Stormblood Duty Support

[Voltyblast]

LMAO Steps of Faith

It's literally a 12-minute fight against a dummy and some adds and the only mechanic is to stand to the side and you auto-solve everything

They could've at least tried to incorporate the dragonkillers into the fight but nooooo gotta dumb down everything for the 50 IQ new players.

What's funny is that they already did nerf that fight a while after it was launched because it was hard, because I believe you had to hit the dragonkillers and take more care on the adds. They eventually nerfed it so hard that you could kill it without much effort and without using dragonkillers. It was very easy but at least it was fast and kind of fun.

After trying it on a couple of alts, I dread the time when I had to do it: it's now a 10-20 minute slog of a fight, with nothing in it being really fun anymore, no more control of adds, no dragonkillers, nothing. It went from an easy but overall fun fight with some fun little gimmicks, to just an interactive cutscene.

Too bad, but I guess I'm a minority so "shrug" that's we get now.

[Jeeqbit]

Bosses jumping to the middle and turning has actually been making it annoying to tank.

At first I pull the boss and face it north.

My aim, as a tank, is to keep the boss still and reduce the amount of time it turns to a minimum. So let's say it faces east for a mechanic. I will wait for the mechanic to go off, then I will rotate east so that the boss doesn't rotate again and annoy melee DPS.

Then SE will reposition the boss so it faces south for some reason. So I have to run south, confusing the party who are at south.

Then after a bit the boss repositions and faces north. What? So I run north to meet the boss and keep it at north. Again, it's disrupted melee DPS and what remains of their positionals.

It's not just dungeons, either. It's been annoying in extreme trials as well. Let's take Barbaricca for example. Why does she face south suddenly? Does SE really want me to just pull the boss and face it south always?

[Saraide]

Elemental towers cant even be an issue of this is too hard to make the trusts do it.

Edit: actually I have more to be annoyed about. I hate bosses that constantly jump back to middle after everything. Let boss movement be tank responsibility. This one annoys me personally the most because that's not just a thing they do in dungeons. It isnt even just a thing about trust tanks not being able to position bosses. SE does that everywhere. Combined with arena spanning hitboxes this is imo the biggest flaw boss design across all content is suffering from this expansion.

[ZephyrMenodora]

gone are the halcyon days of queuing into bardram's mettle and inspecting the tank and finding that he's still in shire gear

Confused by this comment. Most of my levelling classes would still be in Shire for Bardrams. It’s the first dungeon that offers an upgrade to it. And barely an upgrade at that.

[GaiusDrakon]

Confused by this comment. Most of my levelling classes would still be in Shire for Bardrams. It’s the first dungeon that offers an upgrade to it. And barely an upgrade at that.

why is it never surprising that you are a DF terrorist

[Wyssahtyn]

don't act like bardam's was impossible in shire gear lol. as long as the tank used their mit and the healer wasn't a curebot then it was perfectly fine, just had to consider single pulling certain packs like the halgai and birds because they could be spooky.

[GaiusDrakon]

don't act like bardam's was impossible in shire gear lol. as long as the tank used their mit and the healer wasn't a curebot then it was perfectly fine, just had to consider single pulling certain packs like the halgai and birds because they could be spooky.

of course. but you're talking about zephyr.

[GTK0HLK]

By the time 7.0 comes out, I'm thinking I'll be making a new alt to experience everything again, so it'll be great to play through Stormblood with the trust system as well, curious to see how they changed things.

Sameish..,
once I got done with the story on my main, and all timely-beneficial things done.
I'll like start a new <Your preferred term for female Hrothgar.., I'm partial to RothGal> Alt.

Though my Characters always start as PLD I'm Ul'Dah.., Before going full BLM, when not capping classes, or gotten used to one other job.

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As for the whole Changing of mechanics..,
Eh, they should of just remixed them to fit the Duty Support/Trusts.

But it's an extremely minor complaint, from Extremely Minor Attempts.

I just hope the Dungeons get more and more Complex over time in this Newly Approaching Arc. In ways that the Trust/Support won't hold our fun back.

<Yet, we are still likely to get Extremely Minor Complaint Threads, From Extremely Minor Minds..,>

[Izar_Chillen]

The alteration of dungeon mechs just to facilitate their limited trust ai is getting too much

Why couldn't they leave DutyFinder versions as is, and make the duty support solo instanced version have the nerfed/removed mechs ?

[Hyperia]

Ultimates are not hard because they have harder mechanics, they're just far less recoverable in EW (compared to on-patch UCOB and UWU). But sure. They are the ONLY type of combat content that is harder in EW. (But that probably isn't true for saus legends)

Savages are absolutely not harder though lmao. But can't expect ShB babies to know much about raiding history in this game.

I watched TOP drain the very soul out of one of my FC members. Out of all of the Ultimates, it seems that TOP is over the top and not fun compared to the others. The almost universal thing I hear people say when they finish it is… thank god it’s over, finally, I’m free. This is not what you want to hear from players.