Shrinking the gap by raising the floor | brainstorming skill incentives

[Brightamethyst]

What we've ended up with is an MSQ which guides people through doing mechanics (and eventually gets surprisingly advanced in that regard)... but is actually rather light on DPS checks and performance/output requirements. While some probably want to lean more onto the performance side and are assuming the mechanics are something that is just done without issue, but it really is where it should be.

Yeah. There's only so much you can do with DPS checks in solo MSQ fights. They need to be doable by both veteran BiS DPS, and newbie healers with middling gear. Mechanics on the other hand affect everyone much more equally. "Look away from the gaze attack" or "don't let the orb hit the NPC" affects everyone the same, while "kill this add in 10 seconds, or else" does not.

[Veis_Alveare]

Yeah. There's only so much you can do with DPS checks in solo MSQ fights. They need to be doable by both veteran BiS DPS, and newbie healers with middling gear. Mechanics on the other hand affect everyone much more equally. "Look away from the gaze attack" or "don't let the orb hit the NPC" affects everyone the same, while "kill this add in 10 seconds, or else" does not.

Well we're very able to scale things dependent on the job trying to complete them. I don't think a BLM and an AST should both be held to the same dps check, though admittedly I thought this was obvious enough to not need stating.