Can it still be called a "raid" anymore?

[NocturniaUzuki]

- Extra: Tome rewards may be subject to various alterations per week to encourage players to interact with different content for the best tome rates per week, and/or to rebalance the tome rate to discourage repeatedly grinding the raids that offer the best tome rate for the least effort.

[linay]

I think you're missing the point that they want you to have the chance of needing to go more than once in a week, especially for normal difficulty, which helps with duty finder queues.

[Shurrikhan]

Well... Considering the around story the raid with Omega, it perfectly makes sense to not have trash in there...

Omega is literally throwing you into an arena to fight the bosses. It would be more awkward if it went "Oh, by the way, before you do that, here's some random things to fight."

Agreed. For that, it's perfectly fine, but it's aesthetic is built around generating space out of nowhere. That isn't true, however, of any of the raids we've had prior, and is not likely to be of any of the raids hereafter. It doesn't exactly set a precedent; it just did what it ought to given its idiosyncrasies and general concept.

Does that mean a 5.x Allagan fortress 8-man would need to have trash in the same form as we've seen in Coil or Alexander? Not at all. Maybe it'll even throw in gunships or mechs; who knows? It should simply fit whatever it's got and flesh out whatever setting it intends to immerse us in.

[Mansion]

I'd be happy to see a bit more differences between normal and savage too.

For istance, normal raids could be a bit more "story focused" with it being still enjoyable in a farming mindset for each week. I think they did some great work in narrative fights with Tsukuyomi so they could rely on this system for the story immersion that is kind of lacking in Omega.

Then savage could be designed in a "training" mindset, no obnoxious trash pulls or long transition/downtown phases that bring nothing to the fight except making it longer (hello there O10S and Middy's dives).

For instance I like Halicarnassus, with the normal mode having a small mini game and the Savage having the Book phase added. I'd like to see more fights with this kind of dual representation in difficulty.

[ReiMakoto]

I'd be happy to see a bit more differences between normal and savage too.

For istance, normal raids could be a bit more "story focused" with it being still enjoyable in a farming mindset for each week. I think they did some great work in narrative fights with Tsukuyomi so they could rely on this system for the story immersion that is kind of lacking in Omega.

Then savage could be designed in a "training" mindset, no obnoxious trash pulls or long transition/downtown phases that bring nothing to the fight except making it longer (hello there O10S and Middy's dives).

For instance I like Halicarnassus, with the normal mode having a small mini game and the Savage having the Book phase added. I'd like to see more fights with this kind of dual representation in difficulty.

Middy's downtime phase after the add can actually be quite good, can be used to realign buffs that have drifted and perform a proper opener again on some classes. I know on my mch I'm able to do a 3 ammo opener again with raid buffs aligned because of those dives, which also makes it a great time to pop pots.

[Mansion]

Middy's downtime phase after the add can actually be quite good, can be used to realign buffs that have drifted and perform a proper opener again on some classes. I know on my mch I'm able to do a 3 ammo opener again with raid buffs aligned because of those dives, which also makes it a great time to pop pots.

I know I'm being unfaire because all forms of downtime in boss fights are always an occasion to realign groups buffs, reset timers etc. It lets me prepare a new set of cards on AST or prepare a burst on SMN.
It's just that there are too many of them in this particular fight, which I already dislike before those downtimes haha.