Quote Originally Posted by GrimGale View Post
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.
WoW raids are balanced for 20 players, and some fights are exactly that unforgiving. I still have flashbacks to Mythic Varimathras, though at least that was a shorter fight.

I'd also like to note that even in a raid environment with tons of constant ambient damage, in a game where healers deal a fraction of the damage of FFXIV healers and have vastly more mana pressure, I multiple times had my palty healer DPS be the difference between a wipe and a progression kill. A bit more damage in FFXIV raids will not reduce healers to only ever healing - not when the DPS tools are so very strong in this game.