

For as frustrating the ARC SCH/SMN shared system is, it did a good job of converting DPS into healers who DPS. Up to level 30 when an ARC became a SCH in ARR you basically had the ARC damage kit so you already knew what your damage rotation was because you leveled with it for 30 levels and got decently used to healing because you got CNJ to at least 15.
Now when you go from ARC to SCH you get thrown into a completely different playstyle.
I think it's because most people just weren't trained to this level of difficulty before, but as time passes - and if the game is correctly made (is it ?) - we can hope a good portion of players will slowly get better.I've seen that too. Depending of the case, it's healer struggling with the raise in difficulty, or more rarely, healers that refuse to stop playing like they did previously, and refuse to use GCD to heal once in a while. With those, making one small error nearly always mean death, especially if you have no self healing (well if you're a caster). Hyper potion have become useless, 11k life is like 10%, when they were introduced they were 25% of your life.
Honestly, if I welcomed the raise in difficulty in endgame content a month ago, I'm slowly getting annoyed by it, since it makes obvious how the average player is bad at the game (and I mean that in a general sense, it's not targeted to healers). And that's coming from someone who is very mid at it.
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Starting from Stormblood, the first tier took 16 hours. In Shadowbringers and then endwalker, it took 14 for both of them.
Edit: Then for this one it took 9 hours.


Usually the only time I see some DPS get left near death is when they feel like disappearing off into the horizon to be out of range. Or they keep going out of their way to stack up so many vulns there's basically no difference between 30 and 90 or even 100% and likely have Brink of Death as well.
Granted, I have noticed the general decline in healers so maybe I'll see actual full on neglect eventually.


more players, better more stable connection and overall skill improvement of hardcore savage players. Unless cbu3 do a blizzard and overtune savage on a purpose the world firsts will only get faster.




Oh how I wish they would have the courage to do a REAL shake-up of the savage formula.
We're getting reports of even the PF progging M4S right now. It's not just the "hardcores" finding this easy.
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