Enrage timer raid design is causing all the problems

[RenoKreuz]

If all these WoW players want FFXIV to be like WoW then why are you here? My god, stop trying to turn this game into the one you left.

The raids are fine, aside from Titan, they're easily cleared in crafted gear. E3s has to be the easiest turn 3 we've ever had. It's barely a step up from e2s unlike Halicarnassus or Omega. Healers dps, tanks dps, dps dps, that's FFXIV. Quit crying.

Wow (as in the sound, not the game), much negativity. I did not once said in my post to request for the game to be "more like wow", all I'm doing is providing an opinion into why i think these issues arise.

If you think the raid designs have no issues, good for you, I do think there can be a lot to learn from other games. Notice my point is *NOT* to just remove the enrage, but to diversify the difficulty and hence fun. There can only be so many variations of "avoid death" mechanics.

And as you rightly put. Tank DPS, healer DPS, DPS DPS. There was a post recently about how 70% of a scholar parse was broil. Is that fun design? I don't think so. My reason for posting this is not the raids are "too hard", but because people are posting about "unpopular dps" classes and how some classes are avoided for extreme clears. Do read a bit before jumping to conclusion thanks.

[Rockette]

And as you rightly put. Tank DPS, healer DPS, DPS DPS. There was a post recently about how 70% of a scholar parse was broil. Is that fun design? I don't think so. My reason for posting this is not the raids are "too hard", but because people are posting about "unpopular dps" classes and how some classes are avoided for extreme clears. Do read a bit before jumping to conclusion thanks.

Scholar used to have broil, miasma, miasma2, bio, energy drain, bane and sacred soil right up until Shadowbringers.

Until a bunch of people cried on the forums that healers should only heal and DPSing is too hard. Now you have 70% broil. See what happens when you cry for things to be made pants on head easy?

Which, this savage tier in comparison to a few others, actually is. As others have said, the DPS checks in this tier of raid are not too high, or high at all. Let's not forget this important bullet point of the Shadowbringers live letter:



In terms of job balancing: Yes, we go through this exact thing every single expansion. Jobs are released. Savage is released along with a balance patch. Players progress. Square monitors job balance / Savage clears and releases another balance patch later in the tier.

Crying on forums continue.