Raiders, why do you consider raiding just not memory games ?

[Red-thunder]

By own admission, you don't even play this game, why do you care how people who do spend their time doing it? You are one of those people who constantly get told to "mind your own business", aren't you?

Because you're obviously here to defend FF14 raiding as somehow requiring a big brain and in the process exposes yourself as not actually understanding how to raid.

Like seriously this is just so hilarious:

"Because just the act of "knowing" the fight is not sufficient for clearing it, on a pure mechanical level. The ability to perform the proper job rotation while moving and resolving mechanics is non-trivial compared to "flipping and picking cards", which is the standard action for playing a "pure" memory game like "concentration"."

You treat mechanics and rotations as separate. That is all I need to know that you haven't actually played the real game.

FF14 raids are a dance. The mechanics and optimal rotation in every fight is part of the same choreography. You don't memorize "Chariot = out, oh I also need to dump some light stacks here."

You memorize "1, 2, Out, TCJ, T, C, J, go back in to rear, 3, 1, 2, go to flank, 4, 1, go to healer 2 who always goes near rear, 2, 3, etc."

That's how you play the game. The only exceptions are legitimately random fights like Nael phase or legitimately random jobs like old BLM. Anything else and you're playing it wrong.

Once you reach this level this game becomes dull within one tier. I suppose maybe to mediocre players who never reach this level it will be fun forever since they never actually see through the Matrix, so to speak. Everything in this game is repetitive and stale.

[AllenThyl]

Considering that they are almost always fatal to the entire party, it is not surprising that they will never go beyond the niche of optional/low-popular content.[/COLOR]

High-end combat duties are not niche content. We are talking about 15-25% of the player base here.

Because you're obviously here to defend FF14 raiding as somehow requiring a big brain and in the process exposes yourself as not actually understanding how to raid.

No, but I don't find it cool when people post untrue things. A healer's rotation is simply not "just" glare. Is it most of it? Sure, and the issues healer have with regards to their role are all valid. But your reductive and hyperbolic statements are simply not accurate representations of reality.

You treat mechanics and rotations as separate. That is all I need to know that you haven't actually played the real game.

tHe ReAl GaMe

The only exceptions are legitimately random fights like Nael phase or legitimately random jobs like old BLM.

Pray tell what is so "random" about Nael phase, that also doesn't qualify p8s as sufficiently random?