Quote Originally Posted by Risvertasashi View Post
No, it's purely meta. The devs have said healer DPS is not considered in encounter design. And more recently it sounds like they're not so happy with so much emphasis on even tank DPS.
Which makes you wonder. They don't consider it, but still... even with the healer DPSing, the tanks with STR gear doing x2 or x2.5 of the expected damage, people still hit enrage. So what are the expectations for the actual DPS? You don't have to be good, but amazing and burn ALL the resources you've got. By doing so, you make the room for mistakes smaller, because if 1 DPS dies, that's probably going to be enrage. Heck! Even having jobs overperforming (Tanks DPS, healers DPS), if a DPS dies, it's probably enrage anyway!

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They should just go back to the old formula. Yes, release a NM (Coil nerfed+echo level) and a HM (Original Coil, SCOB difficulty) so they increase the raiding population. Because, even if it's 1% of the content, it should cater a wider audience. Why does it matter if the top raiding group (Elysium/Lucrezia) down the fights in 1 or 2 weeks? Most of the playerbase it's so far away from that level of teamwork and gameplay that using them as a base for creating the next raid is super silly.

So, as it stands now, you've got:

Alexander: Gordias -> "Casual", faceroll.
Alexander: Gordias (Savage) -> A1S; A2S -> Midcore.
Alexander: Gordias (Savage) -> A3S; A4S -> Hardcore.

I don't see why the split is inside the very same raid. It blocks your gear progression. Lots of statics disbanding because of A3S, the raiding community is dying. I really don't care if they complain about the raids being "too easy". That vocal minority shouldn't have the same weight that a wider % of the player population that were left behind by the dev. team when they designed Alex Savage. "Oh, no, they killed our Bahamut in 2 weeks!!! OUR PRIDE IS HURT!"

On my end, I gotta be openly honest. I love Alex Savage's difficulty, I liked A3S and beyond. I've cleared SCOB Savage before HW (Again, this is not my main), I'm totally okay with that. What I can't stand is seeing the raiding community getting smaller. Statics disbanding everywhere (mine included, 4 times now). Have you tried finding a replacement for a spot in your static? You gotta start recruiting cross-server for that now. People are not interested on raiding anymore.

I don't want to be selfish, because I like this raid's difficulty, it doesn't mean I should overlook the damage it has created over the raiding community.