Is E2S overtuned?

[Katie_Kitty]

No it's not. The reason people have struggled is because first of all jobs like RDM, MCH, BRD, NIN, SMN, DNC were all weaker than they should be and there are so many awful players playing MNK, DRG, BLM, SAM. Despite having the ability to do so in the job they play, these players have been unable to pick up the slack left behind by the weak classes.

[Enla]

No it's not. The reason people have struggled is because first of all jobs like RDM, MCH, BRD, NIN, SMN, DNC were all weaker than they should be and there are so many awful players playing MNK, DRG, BLM, SAM. Despite having the ability to do so in the job they play, these players have been unable to pick up the slack left behind by the weak classes.

This pretty much. The undertuned nature of those jobs combined with that nasty damage down debuff simply made it so that there was very, very little room for error when Savage first dropped. Combine that with the fact that the somewhat wonky hitboxes of the adds and you basically just had a situation where in some parties if enough people were being debuffed it'd be a wipe, no matter how clean the run was otherwise.

Now? It's really not that bad. It's still my least favorite fight out of three I've experienced and I hate running it each week, but it's also probably the best fight in this current tier to practice on if you're new to Savage like I am. It's been really, really enlightening as to how to maximize DPS as a healer and still do mechanics - and even though I'm /terrible/ at it I at least feel like I'm making better strides each week I endure it for a book drop.