Quote Originally Posted by GrimGale View Post
Well the thing is, this game wants you to do the dance. That is why several mechanics apply a stacking debuff when you get hit by them. That or they outright oneshot you.

It all comes down the size of Raids. In FFXIV endgame content is done with only 8 people groups.

In WoW its 10 or even more sometimes up to 40.

In ffxiv a single person messing up can wipe the whole 8 man team. I'd imagine not a single WoW raid would be successful if in a group of 40 a single person wiped the whole raid.
Is exactly why I fell out with Savage after Delta and Omega. The fights were a glorious spectacle, but doing the exact same steps and maybe clearing the boss a couple seconds faster wasn't much to drive me on. And as you said, if one person might not be paying attention because it was along day at work, didn't sleep well or is just bored of the fight you all go back to square 1. Sure you can keep going after ressurecting them but then you might hit enrage. It's not unlike having a very haughty DM with a very contrived campaign, that after you manage to ourtfight and outwit, but spend a second too long he announces the roof falls down and everyone dies.

Feels slightly strange as doing SB Primals Ex unsynced is very enjoyable. We can joke around and things can still hurt and mehanics still kill, so people get downed, but we get them up and manage to do it before enrage with a chance for a dog. This actually feel like the missing link between level 80 dungeons and Savage/Extreme in terms of difficutly. Can be difficult, but also forgiving. Though if I'm not ressurecting I'm probably still using Broil III which I think was the topic here.

An OP which I'm all for. Like with 2.0 and 3.0, want the game again have Scholar feel like a Swiss army knife I can take with me to anything and challenge myself to use every single tool without letting anyone die. A game that designed Scholar to be a Scholar, not a Role participent. oGCDs would be those rare and powerful bonus heals, and rest of the time you'd have to find somewhere safe to cast something for 2.5~s. Best time was when they seemingly made jobs by itself then threw it out there and saw how it thrived, numbers be damned and could be looked at later. This new approach feels very hands-on by limiting choice.