Healers are punished too hard for dying

[Valence]

You know what could help healers recover better without having to buff their already crazy mp positive rotations? Party support.

Just sayin'...

What do you mean that's not what Duty Finder is designed for? If it wasn't "designed" to be able to use Duty Finder to clear the content, then it wouldn't be there and it wouldn't be in roulette. Usually 6/8 players in DF Extreme are Sprouts, never seen it be less than 5/8. Are these usually led by mentors who vaguely remember the mechanics? Yes, and that's not a problem. I have had successful clears in 90% of all of the Extreme DFs I've ever done, and I have cleared all of ARR's Extremes in DF at least twice. Party Finder is significantly slower at getting clears and there are very few sprouts - especially in the window between the last content drop of an expansion and the next one - who are in the Party Finder looking to complete these duties, let alone are actively looking to blind prog Extremes with other sprouts. I don't know about Heavensward and onward Extremes but I can confirm from my own experience, including actively trying to use Party Finder only to be all but forced into doing it unsync'd by the people who joined, ARR Extremes are universally best completed via the Duty Finder. This content is far too old to fill parties in a timely manner without Mentor Roulette, and the integration of Mentors is often critical to clear duties with more abstract mechanics (particularly Ramuh and Leviathan, which are the only two Extremes other than Titan I have ever failed to clear... and that's just cause Titan's the hardest one to execute correctly by far).

It's not that DF isn't designed to accomodate high end and challenging content. It does work, especially in ARR endgame because all the new players are still clueless about their own regional quirks, and extreme trials also still have sidequests asking for completing them (unlike later where it will only be to unlock them). Mentor roulette also helps although it can be cursed depending on the mentors you get.

The main reason why DF isn't used for challenging content is a cultural one. NA and EU just use PF, form their parties there and go with control over what they want to do, add a PF description on prog points, specific strats, etc.

JP just uses the DF in a more anonymous group approach, where everybody is expected to follow one specific strat, get in, clear, get out. If you played on JP for instance you'd probably not use PF much for endgame content.