Quote Originally Posted by strawberrycake View Post
I mean I've been raid leading for years in XIV and raiding isn't that intense baseline, it depends on the group and how YOU want to engage. I run my raiders p chill, one Expert a day will get you all you need, and we run blind, and we have more then enough without crafted gear. And we usually chilled after clearing since people in the group didn;t care for ults, people only got crafted if they liked the way it looked and we were fine going into the next tier. And I really wanna say this, it sounds and comes off like this games baseline is a lot for you personally. And it sounds like you either elected to do all that or your raid lead ran ya'll p hard. But none of that is needed to clear.(been actively raiding since Coils) But XIV is known as the retirement home of MMOs for a reason.

If you know someone who's burnt out after these tiers then they were being ran p hard or just have low tolerance for stress baseline. And that's not me trying to sound mean, it just that all of that sounds like a lot of exaggeration and choices that didn't mesh well with you.
I think you missed the point entirely. I'm saying they have multiple barriers to entry on Savage just from the standpoint of crafting. Not sure if people forgot, but the first tier was literally people scrambling to get crafting up so they could capitalize on week 1 and those people had to go full time crafting loco to do it (I know because several people in both my FC and various LS's all were involved) and that was with a one week head start. And the thing is that yes, back before DC travel and Aether determined the pacing it was possible to go more slowly or not care, but because of DC travel now it's just everyone has to go to aether, everyone has to deal with the same limited time wave of savage raiding that dies out quick and then leaves people struggling. And this isn't even getting into statics because it turned into nothing but people breaking up left and right once we hit the second tier and third tier.

I'm tired of people tossing others out of parties because they aren't learning fast enough, when the guy doing the tossing is using assistive technology like Cactbot. I'm tired of freaking ACT parse groups. Yoshi P. made a statement saying that if people are going to use assistive technology to make the savage fights easier, then it isn't worth making the content. There is literal rampant proof that people are using assistive technology to complete the content more quickly and it is influencing clear rates as well as how people behave or act to others, because those without those technologies are at a disadvantage just by choosing not to use them. And a lot of people don't even have an option since they play on console.