The Dead Ends is yet another error in the push to make everything hardcore

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Fair enough... but it was a different paradigm, where the "holy trinity" was tank/heals/slow,CC .... so it was a different playstyle. Not as twitchy. It feels like the more jump rope extreme FFXIV gets the more like an FPS the fights feel like.

Considering the turn based roots of FF, it's quite a different style.

I take it you didn't heal in your EQ raids. Complete heal chains were very jump rope-y. I don't miss having to do those for hours on end.