E2S was just punishing for players that didn’t execute properly (past tense since now gear can make up for it)

And by execute properly I mean people who don’t know their rotations or openers, don’t understand how to keep uptime, can’t do mechanics properly, don’t know how to match their gear and materia, don’t use food, etc..

E1S, like most first floors isn’t meant to filter these players out, the dps check was lax and mechanics relatively easy. So of course 2S is going to be a gate boss for these players. Generally speaking I feel like 3S is usually the gate boss but this tier Levi was very easy.

Given enough time the weaker players will eventually get carried and now when you run your weeklies you’re still stuck with them. I rarely pug but when I do I end up with healers that do no dps, dps that barely pull 8k, etc. And that’s on duty complete(albeit towards the end of the week)

All that to say that it’s tuned properly and serves mostly to block people who need to practice and learn their class better out of the rest of the tier.