Current State of End-Game Contents - A Blog Post from A Japanese Player

[Garlyle]

meh. The only dungeon with some sense of "difficult" dps check is Haukke HM. Brayflox in i60-65 team is just as easy as in i90+. The only change is the loss of SR possibility, and the hardest boss is sadly enough the 2nd one.

inb4 : "but the last bomb is..." nope. LB it, and bye-bye dungeon done. with iL60 you have LB2 since a long time when you come to it

Haukke HM has a difficult DPS check, yes, but DPS checks aren't even what I was referring to.

When you have the HP to not be killed by Ceruleum explosions, and a healer can just safely healtank adds during 1st and 2nd bosses, because the battle ends in 2 minutes, then it doesn't matter anymore. When you can kill the adds spawned during the third boss so fast that they don't overlap with the bombs, then it gets way easier, because there's no panic moment of trying to clear bombs while being in danger of getting killed by the adds. There's a tipping point where the mechanical details of the battles simply become "eh, whatever," and then it's little different from the stuff you face just wandering Eorzea.

And again, it's fine that this exists, but if that was everything, the game would quickly lose any sense of challenge and just become faceroll - so it can't remain this way for all content.

To me, an ideal is both column A and B, which is what we already have. Several mechanics of Twintania remain deadly. Others, the more gear/echo you have going on, they're 'eased up'. You likely can't straight up ignore them, but you have more room for error. The OP mentioned Ultima HM, and that's a good example - how 'on the ball' everyone needs to be with the balls changes as you continue gearing up/gaining echo, but you still can't just ignore them.