Quote Originally Posted by Iriadysa View Post
A fight only becomes tedious from repetition once you master it.

Otherwise you are just looking for blame outside of your own inability to improve. Although... I suppose you could get tired of sucking at a fight. Well, that's the game right there telling you "You suck at this"
Except even if an individual, or 7/8 individuals master the mechanics if there's even one person who doesn't have that grasp of the mechanics the end result is the same.

It doesn't matter if you have 1/8 people who don't understand the fight or 8/8 who don't understand the fight. You'll still be put into potentially unrecoverable positions with one critical mistake. That's basically the point of the blog post, even though people have tried their hardest to twist it out of context. The 7 people who aren't messing up can't carry the one person who is under-performing because the encounter is basically designed to be unable to kill you as long as you know the rhythm of the jump rope. If one person trips though, everyone is forced to fall over.

You can overgear for certain encounters in order to make up for deaths (Particularly fights with echo buff currently in them), but you can (At least currently) not overgear to the extent that you can make up for another player not performing up to task in the cutting edge end-game content. Your only option is to remove, replace, or just wait and hope they eventually figure out. Because people don't want to wait, the former two options are employed. That's what the post is attempting to drag out. There's virtually zero room for individual player skill because you're being evaluated basically on how well your group can respond to the pre-set pattern rather than the ability of three of four players being able to be an exemplar of playing their job and being able to make up for the mistakes of party members who aren't as skilled. This leads to hardcore players being frustrated because they have to find the perfect group who won't make any mistakes, meanwhile other players are basically excluded entirely.