Going to the same route as WoW. The game is TOO easy

[Fyce]

Gordias continuously gets reference but without a lot of context. Why did it nearly kill the raid scene?

- The dev team openly acknowledged they did not test it properly. Instead of doing the entire fight from start to finish, they tested each individual mechanic in a vacuum. This caused it to become gear synced. Manipulator was straight up impossible to clear while Living Liquid required perfect performance to barely inch by enrage.
- No Cross-world Party Finder meant if you weren't on a dedicated raid server, your chances to clear went down dramatically.
- No CD reset.
- Due to the huge failures of LoV and Diadem, the extended length between patches left people bereft of content.
- Two of the three new jobs were borderline unplayable messes, Astro especially. Dark Knight wasn't great either but serviceable.

Pointing to Gordias and saying "See! You can't make hard content!" is incredibly disingenuous. A lot went into crippling the raid scene beyond simply Gordias—which, itself, was not balanced properly.

Having all of that doesn't mean that Gordias would've been a success.
Besides, my point refered to the complexity of jobs in Heavensward, which definitly played a big role in Gordias's failure.
Also, I never said that we can't have hard content. Otherwise I'd have to say that Ultimate doesn't exist or is bad, and I'm not that dumb.

As for the fourth healer. It's looking more like we didn't get one because the dev team has no idea what to actually make. What we have seen from the healer rework shows almost nothing that would suggest a fourth healer were some monumental task.

They just got rid of one of the biggest splinter they had in the foot since ARR by killing that "identity" that everyone was trying to protect so hard. Even if you don't see what they actually did or the reason why they did it, they can now walk forward and finally start designing healing in FFXIV how it should've been. We probably won't see much happen before at least 5.2, or even 6.0 at worst. But I won't go further into that, because I'm already seeing a bunch of people starting to scream that I'm moving their precious goalpost that apparently must remain at a Lv.73 MSQ trial.