The death of savage raiding and SE's lack of action

[Supersnow845]

So there's a neat little thing called FFL (figure it out), which you can parse out how many people cleared (and uploaded) clears by the end of week 1.

Some of the data is as follows and has been confirmed on twitter/reddit by multiple users.

Week 1 Tier Clears

Arcadion: 950
Anabaseios: 288
Abyssos: 252
Asphodelos: 539
Eden Promise: 172
Eden's Gate: 313

(Eden Verse doesn't exist because FFL was down for Week 1)

Now keep in mind, this does not segment repeat loggers, so those uploads could be potentially included as well. But I assure you, that is rarer for Week 1 than not as most people hit a sort of burn out after the heavy prog and rarely jump back into PF that week. If we even remove 100 uploads from each column in each tier to account for this, there is still a decisive increase in the amount of clears of Arcadion compared to others. I imagine the LuckyBancho numbers (which read achievements on lodestone and due to be released within the next month or two) will confirm a big jump in overall clears.

Okay now (without mentioning the healer strike as I am not and the person you replied you didn’t either), explain why this isn’t explained by square enix’s god awful balancing around pictomancer. You can see the first tier is always cleared at a higher rate and this had the added problem of the wonky PCT balancing completely deleting the DPS checks

I’ll go back to my maths (which again I’m not using to strawman any point about the healer strike), a higher tier clear rate exasperates baseline shortage issues which reveals a deeper shortage amongst healers than tanks which is a problem for healers (either tanks are doing something right or healers doing something wrong) tanks were the rarer role pre ShB so something flipped creating the current shortage distribution, that’s a problem with healer design

Savage always has built in “protection” from feeling shortages as there is always more people that want to clear savage than actually clear savage. When that number is closer the shortage gets worse