Quote Originally Posted by Leelya View Post
For those that think the current system requires skill, I'd like to present another viewpoint. Youtube was out during FFXI, and there was still an extremely high number of linkshells (80% fair game?) who couldn't clear content. The HNM community still had to learn how to adapt to the random mechanics throughout the fight.
The vast majority of FFXI players were horrible and didn't gearswap. All HNM fights were extremely trivial as long as you didn't have 18309213 melee giving the monster infinite TP. Tank/spank the whole way (except KB and Ixion I guess)!