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

[zlotjko]

by removing the dps check you remove the measurement of a dps role. U can make a party of tanks and healers, and maybe a bard to play the mana song. Yea i know this is the other extreme, but by removing role requirements, you remove the need for a role.
Ever wondered why parties for Titan hm go with just one tank? There is no need for the other, thus remove it.
Remove the dps check on titan heart, everyone goes as a tank to survive the WotL. In the end with echo and OP gear, the effect is the same.
Instead of people learning what they are supposed to do.

Don't get me wrong, as someone who tried to do Titan HM with ilvl 75-ish, i know from where it came. But until i got to coil (1) with an experienced group, i didn't know what i was doing wrong. People helped me out and i started training my rotation, research for a better one, then again, then went with the experienced group again. I didn't even had the relic+1 then. Within 2 weeks my dps went 50% more when i started to learn my role. Its a necessity so people see that they are not doing something right and should do better. After that i was contributing much more to the dps check and all went much easier then when i wasn't doing what i was supposed to do.

Another example is T9. When we started learning the fight we were dropping 6th meteor with 5 dps. After some "few" tries we got it to 5. Same with the green golem, same with the add and the boss. After training, we know which cd where to use, how much till recast, how to reduce our movement to maximize the dps, reduce the incoming dmg and that resulted in 90% of our tries to lead us to the last phase without anyone dying. Using cds, pots, food, everything we had so we do our jobs better.The fight made us to become better players, because it was needed for it. If there was no such requirement, we would not become better players. It was also a hit on our ego that we were not good enough, and that we needed to become better. And we did, and our egos are even bigger now .

But that also means that if we managed to beat T9 (almost 3 months after it was released), it means that with the same gear, other content is beatable too. It just depends on how much effort you want to put in it. Especially since we are not hc people. Raiding 2-3 times per week for 2-3h does not classify as anything near of hc. So stop making excuses, become awesome and be proud of yourself.