Quote Originally Posted by HyoMinPark View Post
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Since you used Sophia as example, I decided to watch a guide on it and, for comparison, its Levi-clone mechanic only starts in the last phase. Then coloured orbs, coloured auras, more stuff that you'll only be exposed to at the last phase. Added with some first phase mechanics, that's a lot of stuff to memorize.

Meanwhile compare the new things from ARR primal's last phases (or rotating phases) there's not nearly as many mechanics, all of them added one (or made a previous one the same but harder) but they were super punishing while the bottlenecks are often introduced in the first phase. Even my nemesis, Titan, was rather easy to manage since there was nothing to "understand", it was just dodging.

Personally I don't like the options to catch up right now, there's no reason to be so tight handed about things that are almost a year old and will be useless once Stormblood hits.