Thread: Patch 3.26 Discussion

I think the idea is pretty simple.

The devs felt like the difficulty of A6S was higher than A7S. I've seen a number of people who share this thought. Hell, even my own team said "Well, on the brought side, once we beat this - we'll be on A7S which is supposedly easier."


I want you to think about that mindset for a while. I also want you to think about A3S. I want you to think about how many statics it killed, how badly it must've hit Square Enix's bottom line that they were made aware of it, and how it affected raid communities (Everyone going to Gilgamesh.)

So, what I see in this nerf - is literally SE trying to make it more of a progressive rise to A8S, and prevent there being too strict a barrier to entry. Keep in mind, this is not really the 'hardcore' raiding we saw with Second Coil of Bahamut (Savage.) This is meant more for the mid-to-hardcore crowd, like First to Final coil were.

It sucks that I didn't get to beat A6S at its full strength, but I'm still fine with the nerfs. It'll push groups through A6S, and that will get them gear - the gear will help them clear A7S (since someone else mentioned DPS checks.)

I guess my static, which isn't hardcore and has had maybe 4 hours total practice on A6S, will be able to 1 shot it on sunday, no problem. Even though we haven't seen Swindler/Vortexer. Am I right? I mean from the sounds of all these elitist it's completely faceroll now. /s

Rogue
Ninja Dancing Edge The reduction of HP recovery via healing magic has been removed.


>yfw there are no WAR'S in your party and you can't kill healers anymore.

Originally Posted by LunaSnowfield

Rogue
Ninja Dancing Edge The reduction of HP recovery via healing magic has been removed.


>yfw there are no WAR'S in your party and you can't kill healers anymore.

Not healer, but dps first (As I see on my data center's Feast).

Originally Posted by Ashkendor

Based on what was said, it's because the devs wanted a steadily increasing level of challenge rather than having a spike in the middle.

But then
T2 was harder than T4 (pre enrage strat)
T7 was harder than T8
T10 was harder than T11
A3S was harder than A4S (if you used the sac strat and weren't playing a healer)


I'm not sure why the turns/floors have to be in order of difficulty all of a sudden.

Originally Posted by Miscreant

But then
T2 was harder than T4 (pre enrage strat)
T7 was harder than T8
T10 was harder than T11
A3S was harder than A4S (if you used the sac strat and weren't playing a healer)


I'm not sure why the turns/floors have to be in order of difficulty all of a sudden.

T4 has never seen a reappearance since the First Coil. We don't do trash runs anymore.
T7 was subjectively harder. Once you performed your mechanics well, it was easy. However, the bigger issue was often that one mistake = massive deaths and a snowball effect. However, I still remember groups having just as much difficulty with T8. It's just that T8 had more opportunity for recovery after a death.
T10 being harder than T11 is kinda... lul. Not even sure I agree, considering they were both about on the same level. Heck, I feel like people had more difficulty with Tethers than they did with Heat Lightning/Charges.

And as another poster poitned out, SE wants to -avoid- what happened with A3S. So, that's specifically the one they are trying to address.

Originally Posted by Miscreant

Also you guys know that Compressed Water can now be passed with two people instead of four. Thats a pretty big nerf right there, you can create a lot of melee uptime with that.

Wow, if that's true, this patch is hilarious