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

[RiceisNice]

2-3 people failing? That's 1/3 of the whole party, of course the party should fail.

Two would be 1/4th of your party. This would also turn around to how the party size restriction can lead to problems like this, but you can't add more players either because of the 8-member enforcement, and the nature of the fight mechanics making it unfeasible to add more players anyway. You might not see it as a bad thing persay (and I don't either, to an extent), but it just further enforces people playing with a small collective group and essentially locking out others who can't get into or find one)

There's also the problem that if the tank dies, the party dies stemming from the dps (or anyone else in the party) being unable to tank for even a second and no contingency plan to do so (especially the case if the fight has a mechanic that keeps the OT occupied at all times, such as adds or stacking debuffs). Sure the DRG has keen flurry (which is next to goddamn useless because PLDs and WARs cant cross into it), but chances are, he (and any other dps) will still get one shot'd to an auto attack.


Being able to recover with losing 1/2 members shouldn't be possible under most circumstances. I mean it shouldn't sentence the entire party to the wipe when the boss is down to like 5% or so, but if half your party is dead (out of eight), it's essentially a carry at that point. But like OP has mentioned, the mechanic-driven nature of the fight discourages from having 1 or 2 people messing up that it will lead to a wipe, and as mentioned above, make you bring the same people in over and over just so you don't risk having a new person be unfamiliar/unexperienced to the mechanics and wipe the entire raid. This sort of thing allows for no lee-way or room for compromise (such as outgearing or echo in the case of T5)