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

[Iriadysa]

Forget it.

Sure guys, you want that. I'm sure you do. But Titan super hard, please nerf plumes, I have lag.

i dont know that much about ffxi endgame design, but at least you should look up the various strategies that people came up with to deal with absolute virtue. that is something that you're never going to see in xiv. the most we had of this is t2 enrage and SE will triple check every future encounter to not let this happen again and make them 100% scripted. you don't need any theorycrafting for this game, that's basically the missing "depth" part (don't confuse this with me wanting encounters like AV in the game, hell no).

in theory fast reaction is a possibility too, but not as long as the servers dictate your place in the world and not the client. and they won't change that, because it would require a complete rewrite of their netcode and server structure.

I never defended the depth of this game's encounters. I think they are plain and pathetic. That is exactly why people complaining and wanting to make them even easier is so hilariously exasperating

The people in this thread do not want hard encounters that require fast reactions, they want gear carried encounters. They just don't like that wording because it brings to light the ugly truth.

sadly, i think they are limited by what they can bring because of the ps3 that have soo little memory and they can't add too much developped AI because of this. that the only reason i can see why we get soo little AI improvement in the game.

*facepalm*
I guess sometimes I forget who I'm interacting with.

[Amberion]

The people in this thread do not want hard encounters that require fast reactions, they want gear carried encounters. They just don't like that wording because it brings to light the ugly truth.

Fights in a MMORPG should be based on your character vs enemies. This game focus way to much on you and your connection vs mechanics. It's more like S-E wants this game to be like a action/adventure/shooter kind of game, since stats, gear and abilities/magic has so limited impact.