Quote Originally Posted by Lilseph View Post
Would you happen to have the source link for this? I would really like to read it.
That's actually a huge exaggeration. All the Summoners were alternating Titan-egi and also holding Demi-Phoenix specifically for high damage phases. The Dancer and Paladin were there for the mini healing and the strong party mitigation. Heck, at the end of the video in the final phase, everything started to snowball the moment one person got KO'd. That E4S clear required a very high amount of coordination, which would be impossible to do for the average party. There is no reason not the bring a Healer unless you're specifically in it for the meme.
Here's the link https://old.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...4_battle_devs/
It was a famistu translation posted on reddit, I was a little mistaken on that front since it was from january but the content I was correct on

Famitsu: So many gates to pass. Did the addition of GNB and DNC affect the raid designs in any way?

Masaki Nakagawa (Ozma): We leave the job balance to the battle system team, so we as the battle content team just need to be conscious about each of the roles, so we don't really need to be bothered by it.
Nabeshima: I was also told i didn't need to worry about the balance. The only mention was the "interrupt system" they added in 5.0.

Masaki Nakagawa (Ozma): [We all check the new actions for each job and sometimes are conscious, but it doesn't really affect the difficulty of designing fights.

Daisuke Nakagawa: The job adjustments and raid designs are done at the same time when we work on an explansion, so it's not realistic to start designing the raids after waiting for the final job adjustments, because we simply won't be able to make it on time.

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Therefore if they don't need to look at job balance, then there was no "balance" need on the encounter level to remove the cards.

Its not an exaggeration of low healing requirements if the hardest raid in a tier can be done without a healer. If that's not proof they don't into account just how abundant our heals are then what is?