Quote Originally Posted by Clavaat View Post
Yeah, I can understand that. I was speaking mostly for PF. DF, I truly don't know. Those are whole other debates. Either way, the general point I was trying to make is that even though this content is fairly unforgiving towards people of a lower skill-ceiling, it's very possible for everyone to clear it and enjoy it, if you tweak your attitude/understanding a bit. And that the challenge comes from actually working together, not necessarily from the fight itself on you as an individual. I'm not sure how else to word it, but I've seen evidence in my experience to show that the possibility is there.
I know what you're saying, but, I've run across people who lierally can't clear certain content because of connection issues.

I run content with them, their rotations are good, their adaptability is good, they know when to pop skills, if things go wrong they know when to improvise... they just have unavoidable lag spikes that lead to them getting woosh'ed off platforms to their non-recoverable death in content like Titan EX.

You'll say, "oh, they just say they have lag"... no, the same spikes happen in dungeons like Brayflox and Halitali... they just spike and have 8-10 seconds where they can't do anything.

There's really nothing they can do (except pray for 15 minutes or so without a spike, or for the spike to occur while Titan isn't popping landslides)... they can run the content flawlessly for 8 mintues, but then a spike hits and it's bye bye and then you're running the rest of the fight with 7 people and it just got that much more difficult.

Is it technically possible to defeat Titan EX with 7 people? Sure, if that person who got insta-gibbed isn't a healer or tank. Should that really be the way the game is designed though?

It's really just poor and lazy game design to have a fight that continously pops insta-die mechanics with no possiblity of recovery for 10-15 minutes straight.

You might disagree though, and we can agree to disagree I guess.