Thank you for increased difficulty

[Vaer]

Stack marker was added before SB I think, in the first quest battle with Gosetsu or something. I remember people being surprised that the ai could do that. The learning thing IDK, if so, it doesn't bode well for the future that story mode wants you to constantly dodge and deal with a pretty long multiphase fight ending in a dps check, for story mode. With the content in this patch, I'm worried they want to incrrease overall difficulty.

Hmm I don't know. When it comes to dps checks depending on your skill in the game you might need better gear/echo. That's why the gear exists, to bridge the gap. If you go in at say i340-i350, that's probably close to min ilvl where you would need to know how to play somewhat properly. i340-350 is 6 months - a year old gear at this point with the ceiling being at 400~. (Try doing The Burn with a group of i340 vs a group that is 360-370.)

Now you could say, let's tune it for min ilvl, everyone who has been playing will just roll over it easily, OR they could just remove the check by having an npc blow them up (like what happens in some of the other instances, but this time it's a 1v1) but the difficulty drops drastically.