Anybody else got tired of scripted fights?

[linayar]

After 2-3 clears it feels less like I achieved something and more like I’m a circus monkey trained to do the same trick over and over for little to no reward. After 10 or so clears it all turns to a no-brainer, unless randoms are doing something wrong. But in a good group? You don’t even need to pay attention to what's happening, muscle memories will drag you to the win anyway. And so even the mechanics that looked interesting at first turns into an annoyance, nothing more. It is tiring.

I don't really do any content in FFXIV often enough for muscle memory to drag me to the win or be annoyed at repeating it. And I don't mind scripted fights because I like to know more about a fight if I have to repeat it, especially since, with my schedule, I often play late at night when I'm already tired from work.

As for sense of achievement, I always get it on my first clear of a new content, and I don't really need it for subsequent clears, because it's replaced with a sense of knowing more about the content, until I forget due to time.

Like tonight, I was just reminded of how certain mechanics work in Innocence normal trial, and I got a good feeling about that while feeling silly at the same time as I knew about it last year.

Also, doing a fight with random players give enough level of variety for me that I can appreciate more often than not without needing the fight itself to be too random.