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

[Cap75]

The only other solution is vague, EQ-style sinks, which is what the OP wants, what FFXI fans want, and want everyone else on Earth doesn't want.

There's a lot more solutions than that to add variation to end game encounters. Look to some of the best boss fights in the Souls games or Dragon's Dogma for instance for unforgiving mechanics that require strategy but don't go exactly the same every time. Specific weak points, more destructable areas on the boss, resistances, parts of the arena you can take advantage of tactically, etc.

And you could do that in all these encounters, who says they have to memorize they can just react but as you can see, they can't even do that. lol And almost all fights you can recover if you are skilled enough and geared enough. Even if people get knocked out of the fight. Why do you think people can sell clears? Because they are skilled and geared.

The point of the thread isn't what the most skilled players can do but how the current end game content seems to be marking a divide in the community that may make said community shrink.

[Bizniztyme]

The point of the thread isn't what the most skilled players can do but how the current end game content seems to be marking a divide in the community that may make said community shrink.

There is a community divide in everything in this game. When you can find something that the whole community agrees on that is controversial, hit me up. lol