Occult is awful, and I enjoyed both Eureka and Bozja greatly

[Akava]

2. Critical Engagements are poorly designed and courage Tank turtling. Get hit more than once on a DPS job and you're eating the floor, having no fun, and placing a burden on your teammates. Sure, it's a get good angle, but the actual reaction of the playerbase is for everyone to turtle on Tank jobs. You can get hit a couple of times on a Tank and shrug it off. Every CE is the majority of the players turtling on Tank jobs, or on a rez job.
The real problem here is the lack of defensive options for DPS jobs (aswell as my upcoming 3rd point). There is no Beast essence or something that will allow people to have fun on a DPS job, but stay alive. Even in a group with a shield healer if you aren't completely confident in the CE you're just going to die, and be a burden to the group. A Tank on their own is so much more safe than a DPS player inside a group with shield healers.
There are surprisingly few defensive utility with the support jobs too, most DPS will not be able to heal or protect themselves when they get hit.

It's actually crazy how easy the FATEs and CE become as a tank, especially warrior. You can pretty much handle most, if not every mechanic at 10+ vul stacks with a well placed defensive. Meanwhile, if you want to play a dps job paired with a phantom job without any form of healing, you're screwed after 1-2 vul stacks. Hell, on BLM you're dead if there's two raid AoEs. Let me carry over an ability or two from a mastered phantom job and I can take a heal and be fine.

[Arohk]

they kinda wrote with fiery letters in the sky : this is only for a little part of the playerbase, when the said playerbase main complain over the past 3 years has been the lack of content with aimed for a larger audience. It feels kinda tone deaf..

Feels like streamer content, like Xenoxys who can actually get a large enough group together, how is anyone that playes the game not as a job with enough reach ever going tog et into this.


About the fates and CE, i like this pacing a lot more than this god awful slog which is Eureka, where you crawl around on snails pace and have to wait 5-10 minutes on every fate for people to arrive, and then having to check a website that tracks spawn times and then you must kill dozens of monsters just to spawn the damn thing.
Eureka was just god awful in every way.

If it wasn't for the total garbage with Forked tower this could have been better than Bozja, i have run Castrum , Dalriada and Delubrum over 50 tiems each, but i don't see myself ever getting into that damn raid once right now.

[Gurgeh]

[Hippo]

for those having difficulties with DPS jobs, using knight as phantom jobs help. Its level 1 skill mitigates 60/90% damage effectively allows one to ignore 1 mechanic every 90 seconds. Pray and cure restores hp. At max level, pledge gives invulnerability to 2 attacks every 2 minutes.

[Conroy]

I wish that they would just make the AOE Circle into a Queue system or Cover the entire area of a ruins / field to want to partake into the CE I feel.

[VeyaAkemi]

Being completely honest, I haven't had too much trouble staying alive as a VPR, assuming I can avoid all avoidable damage, whose only regen options are Second Wind and Bloodbath, and has no mitigation besides Feint, so all Role actions, there are two CEs that are an exception to this, "From Times Bygone", though admittedly RNG, he will randomly mark players with Spread markers, and "Flame of Dusk", as Simon Says birb will use raidwides back to back after a set of mechanics, and I feel I could get away with even more if I was playing any other melee other melee, as they all have at least *some* better mitigation or regen(Life Surge, Third Eye, Arcane Crest, Riddle of Earth, Shade Shift), I haven't tried ranged without a Healer, but I imagine DNC can get away with a few well-timed Curing Waltz, but BRD and specially MCH can go fuck themselves I guess, though I guess being told that by the game is nothing new for MCH players.

[Voidmage]

Being completely honest, I haven't had too much trouble staying alive as a VPR, assuming I can avoid all avoidable damage, whose only regen options are Second Wind and Bloodbath, and has no mitigation besides Feint, so all Role actions, there are two CEs that are an exception to this, "From Times Bygone", though admittedly RNG, he will randomly mark players with Spread markers, and "Flame of Dusk", as Simon Says birb will use raidwides back to back after a set of mechanics, and I feel I could get away with even more if I was playing any other melee other melee, as they all have at least *some* better mitigation or regen(Life Surge, Third Eye, Arcane Crest, Riddle of Earth, Shade Shift), I haven't tried ranged without a Healer, but I imagine DNC can get away with a few well-timed Curing Waltz, but BRD and specially MCH can go fuck themselves I guess, though I guess being told that by the game is nothing new for MCH players.

I also can do all fights pretty comfortably on BLM and that job has no self sustain at all (only manaward).
SMN is also pretty easy given it’s free movement.

Knight can be used for solo play and in a party you usually have a healer with you.
Ranger helps with fast movement (because the raidwides don’t really do much damage and the gap closer of it helped immensely.

That being said I agree a sustaining potion would help and that the whole thing tips way too much into the usual tank fetish the devs seem to have lately.
It is kinda unfair that they can just ignore mechanics left and right as I think we are way past the point where they need to be pulled down to normal again.
I mean, if a solo gold strategy (or solo maps) starts with “have WAR” you know something is seriously wrong in the balance department.
It’s the end result of only designing around high end content.

Yeah, BLM literally can not survive CE's on it's own lol even if you play perfectly and get 0 vuln stacks and mitigate whatever you can. You will die without a heal. Meanwhile tanks are immortal. So much for 'balance'.

Of course you can.
Simply with pray of the knight job and depending on how fast the fight goes you don’t even need that.

[itachi-otsutsuki]

Yeah, BLM literally can not survive CE's on it's own lol even if you play perfectly and get 0 vuln stacks and mitigate whatever you can. You will die without a heal. Meanwhile tanks are immortal. So much for 'balance'.

[itachi-otsutsuki]

Knight is great. The problem is you can not carry over skills and the system basically forces you to level whatever needs leveling or you are wasting the CE exp. BLM just dies when it's on cannoneer or ranger or any of the dps jobs without heals.

[Voidmage]

Knight is great. The problem is you can not carry over skills and the system basically forces you to level whatever needs leveling or you are wasting the CE exp. BLM just dies when it's on cannoneer or ranger or any of the dps jobs without heals.

Ah, yes I agree that is a problem (and why I think sustaining potions would help).
Nevertheless, depending on how fast the fight goes you can survive on any job if you don’t get hit (I do it all the time on BLM and SMN).
It’s when things go south that you get slapped into the afterlife.

But yeah, if you want not hard mode then the squishy dps are definitely the wrong choice.
The tanks are bonkers and WAR is a cheat code
Edit:
I think the difficulty is fine. The CE’s are fine after you did them a few times and I like that they punish ignoring mechanics with the infinite invulns.
In my opinion it’s tanks that need to get more damage or something else.
A job shouldn’t be able to ignore mechanics in brand new content outside Savage.