Quote Originally Posted by Melithea View Post
The only thing I can discern from your post/rant is that you don't like mechanics, and then you basically complain about what an MMO is. It's unclear what you even actually want.
you know that the mechanic of FF14 are not the norm? it's a bad way to make content... it's the easier way to make it actually.
you make the fight doable with 1-2 strategy, the setup so far are easy to balance. and as only real difficulty it's... if you miss a step of pattern of the boss... you are dead, and if you die, the group is dead.
is not a challenge! the challenge it's to beat a hard boss because you need to stay focus, not because you will die if you are touched. too much dev have recently make game like this. thinking because game like Dark Soul did work they need to make insta kill boss technique.
that not a challenge for a group, it's only inviting toxic community. and it barely test the capacity of the player. you are only test the capactity of coordination and memorization. human have far more capacity than this.
Worst, all the content feel the same, even if the fight is different we always do the same thing... we are memorizing the pattern of the boss and pray that no one of the team will mess up and die. because with the dps check one dead is often equal wipe.

why people leave, because is boring... we are not doing anything new... it's not hard to add stuff that are new, to add content that will force the player to use all them capacity... not only 2. but actually we have always the same stuff...

dungeon are a line that you must follow, killing boss that will open the next part of the dungeon until you reach the last boss and kill it. the worst example is bray flox hm, you simply gather the monster and blast them, fight boss, repeat and victory. you will say, it's the norm... but mmorpg it's an eternal evolving genre... exept dungeon have almost not change for age... we always do the same thing.
and now raid are the same in a way, the only one that was a nice try, was the T2 with different way that lead to a different boss... until the enrage method was found.

let me ask something, what do you do when you log in?