Quote Originally Posted by bswpayton View Post
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Easy relative to what came before. Shinryu and V3S aren't particularly hard fights, especially not the former. Say you can't claim that because you have a static is foolhardy. Do you think everyone just stumbled into getting one? It's called effort. You'll have to actually dedicate time and energy whereas the overwhelming majority of content can be easily pugged. EX Primal necessitate more effort and a willingness to learn, which only increases the higher up the totem pole you climb. Getting into a static can be seen as apart of said dedication, though some opt to stay freelancer knowing it will be harder. Perhaps if people put in more effort to clear instead of complaining, they might get somewhere. The amount of people you see in PF who can't even perform a basic opener is astounding. Look no further than Zurvan. He wasn't hard, people just tried to brute force through without putting in some effort to learn their jobs or actually do mechanics and died.

If JP players can amass decent clear rates, there is no reason we can't. Now there is plenty of fault to go around. Plenty of raiders lack any patience and XIV does a piss poor job teaching you how a serviceable rotation works. That said, my bad experiences are more akin to the Zurvan examples.