Quote Originally Posted by viion View Post
Wouldnt be a good video if they amped the HP just to shoot the Video, because if so, why have them get killed at all? or 1shotted? Or show damage if its pointlessly out of context, would show false balancing, could mean fight is stupidly easy.

Doubtful, its probably all correct but yes they most likely was not spamming because theres no point.

The archer was waiting for his skill cooldown to finish. Then due to Ifrit jumping around after the archer boosts up he losts target several times and runs like a headless chicken. Another reason is we watch a thm do Raise. Most slowlest and boring skill (as no animation) there is. Then the archer is just standing around haha and then the thm targets and gets 1shotted XD

Not the best way to show it but you are all focusing on ifrit anyway.
It is a preview of Ifrit not the group that is fighting them. They didn't say:

"Here is a video of Ifrit and be sure to pay attention this great new slowed down/unresponsive battle system we decided to surprise you all with! This is how you should all play after 1.19, we put together this crack team of players to demonstrate how everyone will be playing FFXIV from now on!!

Oh and this is also our secret way of announcing that everyone will have at least 2,000 HP from here on out."

So until we get the patch notes or the patch I don't think this is confirmation of anything. They could have upped HP because they wanted to control when people died (and maybe the people were dieing to early), they had the group die in the video (like in the Darkhold preview) because they generally save the ending for the players.