Quote Originally Posted by Yukiko View Post
You remember older FF games?
4 Members, hard Boss hitting with AoE -> 3 Members down
Tank survived using Item to revive healer
Healer using Revive while Tank using Item to groupheal
Healer Revive (if mass revive then doing Wall) while Tank is using Item again groupheal (or reviving the other Damage Dealer depending on which Boss you are fighting)
Healer doing Wall (if wall already casted then hastga or doing now grouphealing) -> tank (mostly the hero or best equipped in group) begins with limit (he survived and is now in enraged mode) while Damage Dealer is casting some Spells or Attacks (or reviving the last member, supporting the group with silencing enemy or such...)

(recluctantly snipped because of yet another modern day restriction)...
Thank you so much for hitting the nail on the head...I've been racking my brains as to what is different from endgame in FFXIV to all the other mmos I've played.

It's the fact that there is NO RECOVERY OPTIONS AT ALL.

In older games raiding was fun...hard work...stressful, but rewarding when you eventually, through many of the skills you talked about, beat the boss. I actually remember sitting there with the sweat dripping down my face, my fingers hurting, my eyes tired, just from the sheer effort of using everything we had to recover.

BECAUSE WE WERE ABLE TO RECOVER....using skill, forward thinking, potions, food etc.etc.

I also remember the corpse runs in EQ....going to bed when the birds were up and singing because it had taken me two hours to drag all the corpses to the entrance for guildies to recover theirs the next day PLANE OF FEAR!! It was teamwork at its very best, where you could actually play with guildies (instead of this stupid "static" idea), where players who weren't good at dodging...not that there was much dodging back then, still had skills to assist their team.

Where we had to actually beat other guilds to even get a boss! and hope we didn't see them rushing past us as we were clearing...but of course that was in the days before "instances" and the sterile atmosphere that brings with it.