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

[zlotjko]

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@ team play, guess bards do not play tp song. Drgs do not boost bards damage nor have high dmg burst for a melee. Mnks do not have mantra, reduce the int of the boss, can off tank for a short amount of times if needed. Melee LB? Then magic dps, as lords of the aoe dps, smns that can ress. Blms that can sleep, bind. Schs and Whm that can off tank for short periods of time. When you change your team composition (not go 2 tanks or 2 healers), and have mechanics that require that someone goes out of his usual rotation that should be his second nature, you should be able to see a lot of teamwork, because all players are trying to compensate for the lack of certain class in some phases for the benefit in some other phases.

Seeing a WHM or SCH tank 1 golem, bard kiting the other while the only tank tanks the last one, shows you some of that. Especially when you are yet to do that for the first time. When it becomes a routine, it just means that you have are doing it a way that works for you and your team the best. A (unlucky) crit(s) or drop in focus can easily show you how fragile some things are. Then there are weapon upgrades that change the fight (different aggro distribution) and needs modifying your current strat usually mid fight. Changing who uses LB depending on the situation. When things do not go wrong, it doesn't mean that the fight design is bad, it means you are doing it good enough.

What i see is that people that have not even tried coil savage are asking for fights that are more rng dependent but require less gear. Do the boring mechanics fight first, then fill your need for rng with savage coils. Until you have done that, you have no right to talk about team play or different balance.

Reminds me of a DRG who couldn't place meteors in T9 properly then left the game because the game was too easy...