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[QooEr]

I always thought it was strange the Ultimates don't force you to que at min iLVL...

ultimates have very tight ilv sync just like unreals. the reason lv 70 ultimates are so easy is because of potency powercreep and how gear sync works (when gear gets synced, if the original item ilv is too high you get both substats capped. imagine pentamelding savage gear)

[EaMett]

Which is peoples real issue. They don't t need more buttons they need more bosses they can't outgear.

Week 1 is also a snooze fest in the healing department. There's hardly anything to heal (outside of maybe one mechanic). In fact, the DPS checks are tight enough on the last floor that you're actively encouraged not to gcd heal as a healer in order to get as much DPS out as possible. So as a result you actually don't heal much at all from the start.

It doesn't feel all that bad because the content is new and you're still learning. But it's still a horribly monotonous one-button spam that I would trade in for "more buttons" to press in a heartbeat.

[ItMe]

ultimates have very tight ilv sync

Yeah, very tight... but not min.
And don't forget that improved food and pots make a big difference too~

[QooEr]

Yeah, very tight... but not min.
And don't forget that improved food and pots make a big difference too~

even min ilv wouldn't do much difference. they should just make them like unreal trials

[ItMe]

even min ilv wouldn't do much difference. they should just make them like unreal trials

That would be cool to see, but I can understand why they don't from a workload perspective.
Every Ultimate would be 1 more raid to rebalance again for every expac and that would only lead to less Ultimate content lest it get too out of hand.

Unless you just mean updating them every once in awhile?
That would probably work a lot better.

[Jadkay]

Scholar having access to a new Sprint-Shield, Sacred Soil, and Fey Illumination and GCD Shielding seems like a ton of ways to mitigate damage. I hope all of that is useful in the new expansion and not just unnecessary busywork.

Unless you are doing content with know people, more than half players don't move to be under the saced soil, some seems to love run away from healers and theirs aoes heal so permise me to doubt about any utilities here.

[Roeshel]

This is good it keeps the healers able to focus on healing not optimal dps.

That's not true. Optimal DPS exists for every role. And we have a lot oGCD healing abilities so that we can focus on optimal DPS.

[AFuzzyMu11in]

That's not true. Optimal DPS exists for every role. And we have a lot oGCD healing abilities so that we can focus on optimal DPS.

Optimal dps shouldn’t exist for healers is the problem.

[QooEr]

Optimal dps shouldn’t exist for healers is the problem.

as long as its possible for any class to do any damage whatsoever, its impossible for optimal dps not to exist.

[Teno]

Optimal dps shouldn’t exist for healers is the problem.

Why shouldn't it ? With scholar, it had the form of shadow flare for instance, and I think it was the right solution. A very minimal positional dps gain that healers can play around to optimize, yet because it's so small you weren't missing out too much if you didn't care to use it the smartest way.