Byakko... HM or EX ?

[RiyahArp]

Titan EX hasn't been done at min ilvl for 3 years or more. A lot of people came and went during that time, using it as any form of example is dumb. Everyone had to do Royal Menagerie, just to get to endgame, as the first phase of a popular new expansion launched. If you wanted to try to do an ex primal synched you often looked at hours of waiting in queue.

I don't agree with being knocked off the platform as a good mechanic to teach skill. It more or less just made one person sit out the fight for one single mistake, completely out of proportion to any other mechanic. We had a very nasty example of this in the hildebrand fight with ultros and typhon. Original fight meant that if any dps didn't get 3 wet plate stacks and punch typhon, you all wiped. And that meant on the second circle aoe phase both the dps and tank on ulty had to be perfect because one mistake meant a guaranteed party wipe. They quitely nerfed that, and I have yet to see anyone complain at all for the loss.

You also kind of limit difficulty with it. If you notice on all the "knock off" fights like that, you have to make it beatable with one tank. Otherwise the tanks can't make a mistake or they force restarts, compared to other jobs; Bismarck is an example of this. If your tank falls off pre dps check, you might as well jump off to restart. You end up making start/stop encounters because they become unrecoverable early.

Idk about difficulty. If you add hard dps checks and many oneshots and raid wipe mechanics, you're just going to do a lot more sorting of the playerbase, and make endgame as small as feast. The big fallacy I see here is that people assume everyone is going to stick with things if they become much more of a pain in the butt to do, because the people who want it harder would do so. But a lot would just skip the content instead.