Reintroduce Maat in 2.0

[Grimwald]

1. You don't use consumables in most end game (Abyssea and VW are the exceptions, but those are temps) You use food, but I don't need to practice using food. You click the item and consume it.

2. As WHM you spent the entire match kiting him, or DDing him. How did this teach you to actively heal and judge situations? (When Regen is a better option than Cure IV for example).

3. As MNK you spent most of the fight sleeping with an opo opo necklace to build TP. I forgot how often I spent just before Byakko on MNK sleeping for that TP.

4. As BRD you used a sword or dagger to deal with Maat. As seasoned BRDs will tell you, you Melee'd at 75 all the time. I mean songs are your secondary focus obviously.

5. As THF, you had to Steal an item or kill him. Obviously THFs are known for stealing in endgame. You constantly stole from Odin, that was strategy 101.

How did it prepare you for endgame again?

As an edit: No endgame content was solo really. Generally you could rely on other players, and had to.

What about RDM, BLM, NIN, SAM and PLD? They prepared you pretty well for your job. PLD was about knowing your cooldowns and maximizing your total amount of effective hit points, RDM was about knowing the cooldowns, effects and implications of your job, BLM was about learning how to carefully weave spells in order to not get your shit wrecked, and SAM was about getting as much damage out of your weapon skills via skillchains (which were used constantly on mobs like Kirin/Byakko/etc).

All that stuff is relevant to endgame, learning the tools of your class makes you a better player, being a better player who knows how to play their job makes you better at endgame by default.

You never used food? There's no excuse why you wouldn't, it makes shit go faster. As a PLD tank if I didn't constantly have max HP food on I'd be wasting my LS' time with needless deaths.

Soloing has nothing to do with this albeit I solo'd plenty of Sky pops as RDM, guess you can do some endgame content solo. (I also ended up selling those drops for a mil a pop).