In spite of my prior threads and my own little confidence issue, this is not an elitist post. Or toxic in nature. This is more or less an observation and a question for more experienced members, though anybody could pop in. Now, I wasn't around for Alex Savage, but with Deltascape, I noticed a huge difficulty spike with V3S...and I could understand the issue when pugging it. I missed out on V4S because I couldn't consistently join good pug groups til I figured out after a month that the best times to go into Savage was Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

I'm somewhat seeing the same issue with the current tier...except that starts with V5S. Personally, I'm stuck on V7S. I can clear the fight myself with a tank, SMN, and DRG...but a huge portion of the time, ink gets messed up by others, or someone gets hits consistently with a missile during chakras, or searing wind gets messed up. The few groups that I have joined that made it further were statics that needed a temporary fill in, and with those, we just hit enrage due to deaths. On V5S...well...I dunno what the deal with that one is.

Now again, I'm not speaking on this as a means of saying randoms are bad. I just wonder if others who do raid have noticed this. Does it compare at all to the Alex Savage raids? This was a question that popped into my mind, as I spent the weekend going through V7S. Has it always been like this, or is this something of a recent trend?