The comments in this thread just show how elitist the content continues to become. As a player of 12+ years, FFXIV moving to cater to raiders and high-end content players has created a real problem with content basically being inaccessible to anyone who isn't willing to jump through hoops.

Also, if content is designed in a way you literally need to memorize pages of mechanics, raid guides, routes, and strategic plans, how is that accessible? How is that even FUN? Like f--k that. I play games to let off steam, not do college-level homework in order to clear something.

And as I predicted, only a couple weeks into OC, and these types of large-scale raids are turning into discord-only content (though I'd argue it was designed that way from the start). The amount of people needed to coordinate and make a run successful is absolutely ludicrous. I look forward to OC being dead and abandoned and only left to the elitist players within the next month.