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[Ashkendor]

It's clear that the number of players who were clearing content was completely unacceptable to Square-Enix, so crap on all of us (yes, even me who went 1/30 or something) who actually cleared it unnerfed.

I don't understand this attitude at all. As someone that cleared all of FCoB without Echo, I don't see the addition of Echo as crapping on my achievement. I see it as them allowing more people to have the enjoyment of earning the achievement. More people earning the achievement doesn't have any impact on how "valuable" my achievement is. The same thing goes for this. You cleared SoF unnerfed. Awesome, me too. Some other people haven't been as lucky, and now perhaps they'll be able to progress with their MSQ and finish up so they can get into the shiny new content we'll be getting in June. Ultimately, that's the goal here. SoF isn't meant to be a roadblock - it's meant to be a gateway. It's not meant to keep people out of the expansion. It's there to usher them into it with an engaging story and a memorable trial.

I think SE underestimated just how much of a hurdle SoF would actually be when done by eight random people. The mechanics are pretty nifty, but the unforgiving nature of the battle made it a real pain in the ass to do in DF. You miss a couple of dragonkillers, you mayaswell just all AFK until the thing resets and pray that half the party hasn't left in the meantime. It's just a matter of effort vs reward - right now it requires too much of the former for not enough of the latter, so many people just automatically leave when they land on it. I would've rather seen a reset button go into it so that you could just wipe a run that you knew was a failure (the aforementioned misses with dragonkillers, for example).