Quote Originally Posted by Murugan View Post
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.
They dont need to say it, that is just what happens, its happened in them all, they didnt amp the HP/MP in all their previous videos, why would this be any different. People do take notice of this, it would be a stupid move of SE to fool us especially when that exact feature (Stats) is the biggest update to the game thats been required in a long time. It would be one big troll.

Stop being in denial.