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

[Gardes]

I still disagree with everything that massive wall of text has to say.

I don't like being able to face roll everything the game has to offer only because I have the gear for it.

One shot mechanics are a way to keep things in balence and the mechanics make every fight feel different. Not just another tank and spank dungeon. Gear also does help alot. Try doing T13 with less then 6k hp and tell me it's just as easy as if you had more. He'll you even have to gear up just to meet the accuracy required to hit the damn thing, let alone kill it in time. It let's you be able to take on more content. And the team jump rope is part of the fun. If your not doing with 7 complete strangers it actually is fun.

What's amusing is that he uses T4 as a prime example of a 'great' fight. The whole thing is nothing but tank and spank adds with very basic rules: feed the bugs early or not at all and dont get hit by the rooks. Also eyeroll worthy is when someone claims that gear doesnt matter in coil and you only need the minimum to enter and getting better gear wouldnt really change a thing.

[RiceisNice]

What's amusing is that he uses T4 as a prime example of a 'great' fight. The whole thing is nothing but tank and spank adds with very basic rules: feed the bugs early or not at all and dont get hit by the rooks. Also eyeroll worthy is when someone claims that gear doesnt matter in coil and you only need the minimum to enter and getting better gear wouldnt really change a thing.

T4, when it was current content (no echo), would be an example of a good fight. You needed people who knew how to perform their roles (snap aggro, know how to dps, mp management). Now its an utter faceroll when you outgear it by 30 ilvls AND a 20% echo. Same with T1 and 2.

For SCoB, gear really didn't help at all and neither would have echo if they didn't make changes to the mechanics. No amount of hp would've saved you from getting smacked by a Renaud or a bad shriek. When you design a fight like that, it becomes hard to make it easier naturally without changing its mechanics.