Patch notes for Patch 7.2: Seekers of Eternity

[Illianaro]

With Sunken Temple getting duty support, I can only imagine that the bosses will lose any remaining unique mechanics and just turn into a punching bag.

The patch notes don’t specify what they changed but do confirm they’ve changed all three boss fights. Obviously we won’t know until we get in there after the patch, but I would guess doom, the heart, and the mythril rod mechanics are gone from each fight respectively and replaced with something that requires less strategizing to accommodate the AI.

I was once a staunch supporter of the Trust system and Duty Support. And sometimes I still have some appreciation for it: when you have kids and things are unpredictable in life it can be good to be able to step away without inconveniencing others. And Trusts really helped me get over my fear of grouping up with people to run content as I gained competency with jobs and mechanics.

But the more time passes, the less sure I am that the addition of Trusts was a good idea. It increasingly looks like it has been proliferated at the cost of interesting mechanics that require thought and strategy, and that’s disappointing to me.