I can confirm that, at the very least, O1S and O2S are puggable for farming on good days. The others...eh...not so much. So I can understanding that, totally. It wasn't too long ago that I joined a farm party in O2S and after the first clear, this WHM kept getting all the DPS killed on the third long drop. Completely made no sense whatsoever. After their 2nd time doing it, the party was disbanded...I would've just kicked the WHM myself, but alas, wasn't my party.
And yet, from what I've seen, these exact people are amongst the biggest complainers about difficulty and accessibility to said content. I want the O4S clear...but because I haven't personally tried to get it, I'm not complaining about not being able to get it...so I get why other players complained with some things. We saw a massive discussion about somebody upset because at the time, Shinryu could not be facerolled and that everybody did have to pay attention. And he wasn't even Savage.
Which, I mean, i get - to each their own...but at the same time, I don't feel that particular sect should be opening their mouths if they haven't mastered a fight. Regardless of anything, this is still an MMO - some things, one has to earn. I mean, most of us grinded ourselves to lvl 70...it's related to grinding to get whatever you want that is locked behind endgame.
Indeed. Certain fights, I cannot get a good farm party going for. I have trouble with Shinryu Ex still, but I wouldn't call it super difficult. It's just almost impossible to farm it in a PUG party because it's almost a guarantee someone is going to lose focus, or forget something, or God forbid, they mess up their rotations and we have to deal with a second Tidal Wave before we finally make it to the next phase.
Oh? Was it like that in ARR? What fights were gates? Other than binding coil.
Honestly, in the vast majority of Pug parties I have joined in, I've never really dealt with an issue with parsing. The only time I've seen something come up about DPS, it was literally about missing DPS checks - not about how high one's numbers were. But, I admit that I might just be lucky on my datacentre because I'm somewhat selective about the description in PF. Unfortunately, I have to admit, there are a couple fights that you do have to pull off near-flawlessly - i.e. don't mess up a mechanic. From experience, it's usually O3S and Shinryu Ex that can really screw up a run if a player messes up a mechanic.
Also, I finally figured out how to properly use the multi-quotes. Makes my life so much easier - no more opening multiple tabs to grab multiple quotes.See, I 'got gud' on the forums.