Savage Raids & Hard Enrages - Should there be more Variety?

[Tohsy]

Hey guys,

After raiding Shadowbringers and a little bit of Stormblood, I've noticed that a lot (if not all) of the extreme/savage fights have hard enrages. Some fights (such as Hades EX) have multiple hard enrages (AKA: DPS Checks) and it seems to be the go-to method of increasing a fights difficulty to being a "Beat the Clock" challenge.

It seems odd to me that they are all relatively short hard enrages, as opposed to soft enrages or a soft followed by a hard enrage after a fairly long time (like 30 sec-2 min after soft enrage starts).

For those who don't know the differences. (Taken from a FF Wiki)

"A hard enrage is designed to wipe a group if the battle is not beaten fast enough. The purpose of this is to prevent turtling and undergeared groups from beating the battle."

vs.

"A soft enrage is designed to gradually increase the difficulty of the battle. Soft enrages take many forms, ranging from a specific point of battle to failing battle mechanics."


That being said, I'm curious to know what everyone thinks about this sort of difficulty tool. Do you think it the current hard enrage fights are fine? Would you like to see more variety in how a fight ends/progresses with soft enrages? ((Such as Shiva Extreme)) Maybe more of a combo?

Personally, I'm not opposed to hard enrages, but it is getting a bit tiring to me that almost every fight has a fairly tight version of it. Some of the best memories I have from raiding previous games have been from soft enrages, where the boss just becomes unbearable and it's a fight for your life/clear.



TL: DR - Savage/Extreme has a lot of relatively short, hard enrages and no soft enrages to end current content fights. (Such as Shiva EX) What are your thoughts and opinions on this? Would you be ok having more soft enrages or would it make the game too "Easy"?


Thanks!