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

[boop03572]

Was Forked Tower ever advertised as "casual content"? The patch notes literally advertise it a challenge, its suppose to be like BA/DSR.

It wasn't advertised as "The Forked Tower: Blood (Savage)" (which I now think it should've been to avoid this massive confusion) so people naturally assumed there will be no mechanics requiring group coordinated resolution. At no point in BA there were any mechanics requiring group strats, all BA fights are basically "boss does this, avoid getting hit by it".

[Arohk]

My problem is mostly that tanks automatically do that in there while all others struggle to even survive.

have you tried not getting hit by avoidable boss attacks?

If you are new to the bossfights a tank is recommended to not be dead all the time, but once you know all the fights you really shouldn't have much problems as a dps.

[Voidmage]

have you tried not getting hit by avoidable boss attacks?

If you are new to the bossfights a tank is recommended to not be dead all the time, but once you know all the fights you really shouldn't have much problems as a dps.

Read my comments again.
I have no trouble on dps. In fact I do everything on BLM and SMN.
That doesn’t change what I am saying, that tanks are not only easy mode in this content but walking cheat codes without even needing phantom jobs for that.

“Just don’t get hit” isn’t really a counter argument you know?
I am not arguing the difficulty of the fights.

But no matter.
I said what I wanted to say.

[Carin-Eri]

Read my comments again.
I have no trouble on dps. In fact I do everything on BLM and SMN.
That doesn’t change what I am saying, that tanks are not only easy mode in this content but walking cheat codes without even needing phantom jobs for that.

“Just don’t get hit” isn’t really a counter argument you know?
I am not arguing the difficulty of the fights.

But no matter.
I said what I wanted to say.

I don't think it's necessarily even "just don't get hit" at this point. It's more "if you're gonna get hit, make sure you're a tank so it doesn't matter".

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

There are few CEs where I think you can't possibly live as a solo DPS (I did this as a BLM) even if you perform the mechanics perfectly and rotate your defensives such as that memo bird in skallic region & all the Mhachi CEs unless you're subbing a ph.job that has some form of self sustain, chug hyper potions on cooldown, or the raid dps is very good that those bosses didn't live long enough to deplete your health bar.

Letting us mix and match probably two ph.jobs would definitely open up a lot potentials to the already inoffensive but unimpressive system.

[Valence]

Read my comments again.
I have no trouble on dps. In fact I do everything on BLM and SMN.
That doesn’t change what I am saying, that tanks are not only easy mode in this content but walking cheat codes without even needing phantom jobs for that.

“Just don’t get hit” isn’t really a counter argument you know?
I am not arguing the difficulty of the fights.

But no matter.
I said what I wanted to say.

Don't worry, no matter what you say, naysayers are going to attack your competency rather than the actual content of the points you make.

[ForteNightshade]

have you tried not getting hit by avoidable boss attacks?

If you are new to the bossfights a tank is recommended to not be dead all the time, but once you know all the fights you really shouldn't have much problems as a dps.

The point they're making is tanks can basically eat vuln stacks like candy and it doesn't matter. Heck, I've deliberately collected them to keep Geomancer's Bell going. You're so comically overpowered as a tank that it's kind of absurd.

[AvoSturmfaust]

It wasn't advertised as "The Forked Tower: Blood (Savage)" (which I now think it should've been to avoid this massive confusion) so people naturally assumed there will be no mechanics requiring group coordinated resolution. At no point in BA there were any mechanics requiring group strats, all BA fights are basically "boss does this, avoid getting hit by it".

Why does everything which requires learning a fight or playing mechanics needs to be declared as "Savage" ? Learning Mechs or a fight has nothing to do with savage what do casuals want? running trainingdummys? something to hit which doesnt hit back? the fight is not savage difficulity and everyone can learn it pretty easy it just required you to actually want to learn the fight

[Iyrnthota]

The point they're making is tanks can basically eat vuln stacks like candy and it doesn't matter. Heck, I've deliberately collected them to keep Geomancer's Bell going. You're so comically overpowered as a tank that it's kind of absurd.

In fairness, "tank privilege" has been a thing since time began, it's just more noticeable when you add force multipliers like the phantom jobs.

[KageTokage]

I've always found a touch stupid that their approach to making the highest level enemies in exploration zones dangerous is just "make them deal over half of a tank's HP in damage per auto-attack" rather then giving them actual abilities/gimmicks to increase their danger level in a more interesting manner.