FF14 has abandoned their mid core players and thats why its failing.

[Kazelus]

Healers are not useless in hardcore content, they are planning their heals and mits to the incoming damage. Only very skilled player can finish hardcore content with no healer and only by taking the jobs that brings healing in their kits.

Extreme are midcore by your description, there is room for mistake and a good healer will shine in saving failing people from death. They are totally doable without preparation. Same for most savages fights, it's the player who make the preparation a necessity by asking other to have watched a guide but the content is totally doable without it. Most of my midcore friend clear savages in blind. (And about the pre-scripted fight, it's true for all content in this game)

If by preparation time, you mean bringing pots and foods or you fails, there is not difficult content that can be made without those things ruining it.

[Jason_Ashford]

Healers are not useless in hardcore content, they are planning their heals and mits to the incoming damage. Only very skilled player can finish hardcore content with no healer and only by taking the jobs that brings healing in their kits.

Extreme are midcore by your description, there is room for mistake and a good healer will shine in saving failing people from death. They are totally doable without preparation. Same for most savages fights, it's the player who make the preparation a necessity by asking other to have watched a guide but the content is totally doable without it. Most of my midcore friend clear savages in blind. (And about the pre-scripted fight, it's true for all content in this game)

If by preparation time, you mean bringing pots and foods or you fails, there is not difficult content that can be made without those things ruining it.

i would say in Dawntrail this is kind of untrue, at least for Sphene EX, and Zelenia EX which features a multitude of mechanics that are almost always a party wipe if failed.

[Kazelus]

i would say in Dawntrail this is kind of untrue, at least for Sphene EX, and Zelenia EX which features a multitude of mechanics that are almost always a party wipe if failed.

About sphene, I only remember the rocks mechanics that end up in a wipe if failed, but I haven't done it in a while, I do remember that we clutched a lot of mechs but we mostly wiped when a rocks didn't break because it was a millions damages at the end. What else was a direct wipe if failed ?

I'm currently progging Zelenia so I can't really tell what is a straight up wipe, but the add phase can snow ball quickly but you can avoid taking 2 tower and live throught it easily, the cleaves are more a trouble. EF can be lived throught from the start at 6 if both tanks are alive. Roseblood 3 can go fast on wipes, I haven't seen the tower connected enough to know if it's a straight wipe or not. 4 is salvageable share just need to sacrifice. I killed yesterday but I still don't know the fight really well.

Necron is a joke, grand cross and mass macabre are the only wiping mechs and it needs a lot of things going wrong to wipe on it... (mass macabre is a body check but yet, you can survive a tower exploding and heal LB3 after)