Please add a mode that doesn't require as much teamwork.

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

Sigh. I'm not arguing this again. Look at Lodestone stats, and if you actually played shatter towards the end of 3.0, you saw it. They are struggling now because they all stopped farming shatter and its purely random who goes on at all.

So effectively, it really IS the skill of the players, and not the GC that makes the difference then? Otherwise Maelstrom would still be the "best" right now. . . It's like I was right all along. . .

I was a healer in it, so I didn't have many issues with NIN. My point is more if you love the better tactics of 3.0, you kind of have to realize they existed because counterplay was bad or nonexistent. Nin could take out stragglers only because stragglers as a whole were at a disadvantage in counterplaying it, the same way people at a disadvantage with sleep in frontlines, or stunlocks in feast.

CC and DR being universal was the counterplay for a lot of things. Relying on Sleep or stunlocks too much not only makes that strategy predictable, but it only worked so long before you made the player immune. Range is, and always was a counterplay to a melee, even if they had gap closers. Healers had Attunement, though even THAT had a workaround (Hawk's Eye) and wasn't a get out of jail free card if caught unaware/alone. There's also the fact that we weren't forced to choose crucial skills like Sprint or Purify over something else. EVERYONE could sprint. EVERYONE could Purify. And even if it had a long cooldown, fact is, you never had to choose between either one or any other beneficial PvP skills.

People see the button reduction and think "Oh they made it easier to pick up!" but they're missing a few important things:

• Everyone could sprint. It wasn't an optional skill.
• Everyone could Purify. Not much changed about Purify except that now it IS an optional skill that you have to consider over other things.
• PvP skills were upgradeable, and often worth it to do so. This is why there was PvP XP/ranks. They helped, but being low rank or having unupgraded skills weren't gamebreaking.
• Ranged didn't hit like melee, and even had a damage falloff at max ranges. They were still equally deadly, but didn't have nearly as much advantage as they do now.
• EVERYONE had several CC skills, most of which were quite sensible for the job that had it. In MCHs case, for having so many, they had shared cooldowns.
• Many skills that were deemed "useless" in PvE held VERY strong utility in PvP, such as Sleep, MNK's One Ilm Punch (removed buffs), binds in general
• Tanks were tanky. Healers were HEALERS. Yes, they could DPS, but it was low in potency and a far second to their primary role, which they excelled at.
• With access to the full PvE kit, and not a fixed set of abilities, however sensible or not, the individual skill of players really made a bigger difference then. This new system might promote more accessibility (perhaps as to encourage lower leveled players to get into it), but in a system where "anyone can be good", good players are still greater, and knowledge/understanding of the PvP system or the game mode still holds more weight.