Why is Coil dead?

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What is your point? They'd still be just as nerfed, and additionally nerfed with the new sync system. Which means they'd be even more doable in DF. People were running Coils just fine when they were released into DF, too.

The topic is about why Coil isn't ran as much, and it's mainly due to Coil not being in DF. And any reasoning about it being "too difficult" to do in DF now doesn't make any sense. Despite what people are saying they weren't even "savage" difficulty back then, either, before they were in DF. You could solo heal all of first Coil except maybe T4 when it was current (in a party capable of pulling it off), which speaks a lot towards that.

There was also a degree of difficulty that can't exactly be measured, that we were all a lot less fantastic at the game when it was young. Go back and watch some of those first clears, people missing auto attacks and GCD uptime left and right. Very few people talked about any sort of meta or fighting for that 99%. People generally weren't near as optimized back then.

So sure, it's easy to look back now and say it wasn't that difficult after we've gone through trial and tribulation with HW savages and SB ultimates. But back when it was relevant content it would've been way too hard for average DF groups (compared to normal raids now).

As for *why* they aren't included in raid roulettes now.. They probably could be, but there's still more mechanics in them than in any of the story mode raids.