Player Drop Off and Accessibility/Diffculty

[Mesarthim]

I would heavily recommend using focus target in that case. I have a focus target HP as well as their cast bars split up and put in designated spots on my screen for this very reason.

Edit: Even the Enmity List can be used (I do this on Eminent Grief's Drain Aether).

[0blivion]

ITT: people that still haven't moved the boss cast bar near their hotbars or in any visible location whatsoever, then act like reading castbars is soooo hard

[Azurarok]

I mean I have all that set up and I'm not exactly struggling with it much personally, mainly pointing out the cast bars on the nametag isn't exactly useful. They often don't show on adds and smaller enemies like the mobs in PT, where I'd actually want it.

[RajNish]

It sounds like you just want a difficulty that's easy for you in particular? That doesn't make it more accessible to everyone, just to you.

No, not just for me. This was given as one example, and there could be many different changes, so I can't list them all; you can do so if you'd like. Please don't take my words out of context.

[Azurarok]

The default camera angle for lalas is awful! On PC you can hold Ctrl and use the up and down arrow keys to adjust your camera. Or use the macro "/tiltcamera [number]" (example: "/tiltcamera 85") to do it if you're on console or want to macro it. I have it as part of a macro for settings for doing battle content!

Yeah I have it set to 40 while the default's like 33 I believe. It's still not quite enough, while 85 just makes my hotbar and job gauges cover my character.

And again, I have the target's cast bar big and in the middle so it doesn't really give me any problems, just that it's not really as useful as a feature as I'd like.

[Absurdity]

ITT: people that still haven't moved the boss cast bar near their hotbars or in any visible location whatsoever, then act like reading castbars is soooo hard

Probably one of the big things that often gets overlooked.
Fix your UI, the default is terrible.
Of course you can't keep track of what the boss is doing when all the important UI elements are on opposite ends of the screen, even worse when someone is busy staring at their hotbars.

[Shistar]

The default camera angle for lalas is awful! On PC you can hold Ctrl and use the up and down arrow keys to adjust your camera. Or use the macro "/tiltcamera [number]" (example: "/tiltcamera 85") to do it if you're on console or want to macro it. I have it as part of a macro for settings for doing battle content!

I didn't know you could macro this stuff, that's so cool!

[Valence]

I mean I have all that set up and I'm not exactly struggling with it much personally, mainly pointing out the cast bars on the nametag isn't exactly useful. They often don't show on adds and smaller enemies like the mobs in PT, where I'd actually want it.

Yeah I second this, in typical UX fashion, CBU3 when actually bothered to add UI features into their game, will only do the absolute minimum and stop halfway through for literally zero reason.
Add cast bars on everything, and offer options to turn it off for players that don't like it. Also add buff and debuffs below enemy plates in a similar fashion while we're at it, why didn't they take the opportunity to do this either??

[Kaliesto]

My problem with savage isn't the "difficulty", it's just a memory game at the end of the day, my issue is that it's just a memory game - there is no skill expression, the mandatory damage is carefully calibrated to not kill you as long as the right buttons are pressed and the fail damage causes a wipe then and there, no room for healers to save the run, no room for tanks to do anything to save the run, no room for good dps players to beat the dps check anyway just "you slipped up, back to the start." From what I'm told Ultimate is the same but longer.

In terms of dungeon and trial content, I feel like partywide damage should be twice as high and thrice as often, that'd give healers an actual purpose to exist, tank busters too should be at least 50% stronger, if not 100%. Mitigate or die, also get healed or die and yeah, if tanks die on account of healers not doing their jobs then I'll be the first to complain with them about those healers not doing their jobs.

Thank you

This is how I always felt about savage, and why I stopped. You are forced to rely on other 7 people to play a memory game, and there is literally no skill involved but just making sure your brain can memorize patterns on random.

Just takes one person to screw up the raid and restart it, and I got so tired of that and wasting my time.

[IOwn92FCHouses]

Thank you

This is how I always felt about savage, and why I stopped. You are forced to rely on other 7 people to play a memory game, and there is literally no skill involved but just making sure your brain can memorize patterns on random.

Just takes one person to screw up the raid and restart it, and I got so tired of that and wasting my time.

Clearly there is some sort of skill expression. It's a classic, isn't it? "X thing doesn't take skill. Poo poo on this thing I dislike, no skill, easy and simple."

No, it's not just a dance. Yes, there are skills involved. And neither you or the person you're responding to would know because you both have FAILED to clear ANY savage tier at ANY POINT in your respective accounts history, per your publically accessable profiles.

Respectfully, don't talk about how easy content is when you have never, ever, been able to clear that content. The only consistent factor in your parties is you. Perhaps you should look inward as to why you've failed to clear a tier.