So Second Coil has been destroyed

[Gralna]

Savage Second Coil of Bahamut

[Phafi]

but guise, there's still this giant roadblock called Twintania

[Prototype909]

Bitching and moaning about the nerfs isn't going to reverse them. GTFover it.

Bitching and moaning gets content nerfed to begin with, so I can dream.

[IzumiYuki]

Bitching and moaning gets content nerfed to begin with, so I can dream.

Bitching and moaning didn't get content nerfed. Time and newer content got it nerfed.

Is ff14 so full of elitists that they have to care old content they have farmed for months got nerfed? I've played so many MMOs and this is the first I've seen people actually get so mad old content got nerfed.

[Rufalus]

If you just want a challenge, you have savage mode, and the latest raids (final coil). Second Coil could be nerfed to the ground, but you always have that have savage difficulty mode if you find fun in a challenge.

But if you concern is that a greater amount of people with less time or skill get to experience old content you've already beaten... Well it's a receipe to destroy the game if you keep wanting content be exclusive to just an elite minority and keep it that way forever.

[SirSaber]

I do not understand why most of you are complaining about nerfs.
Let other people catch up and don't be so damn egoistic.

You have 2nd Coil savage mode for your loots and challange so why even care about normal 2nd Coil?

I don't get it why some here are allways nagging about content being made easier.

[TheCurls]

Who cares if older content gets nerfed? Enjoy the new stuff while people are still struggling with old stuff. Your shiny High Allagan gear is no longer the shiny new stuff, so don't be sad other people are getting it. Now you can lord your dreadwyrm gear over everyone...until next patch cycle, that is.

[Chihaya]

Welp, glad I was able to clear t6-8 before the patch, but still learning t9.

But with this patch, I think it be easier to go on farm mode with PUGs and not having to finish all the soldiery gears.

[Coldbrand]

Titan EX being harder than T7 makes a lot of sense.

[Krr]

The fights before T9 weren't relevant for anything but loot that's now basically outdated by the slow weekly churn of Poetics, and T9 wasn't touched.

Also, I don't see anything indicating the mechanics can be 'ignored', only that their punishment damage has been reduced from 'instant death' to what is likely 'severe'. You probably won't be able to recover from 90% of a group just 'ignoring' blighted; your party is still dead as a doornail if half of them get blasted with Voice, etc, etc.

If you want serious, premade-required challenge, the only entry requirement to T9 is beating T5 and having a high enough ilvl. Go do that and unlock FCOB. If you want the "classic" SCOB taste, Savage still exists and gives the same loot.

The utter butchering of T7 doesn't surprise me at all, though. I've met members of T9-cleared static groups having a blast in FCOB who swear never to go back to that fight.