Hope I'm wrong, but stat squish seems to make people weaker in pre-EW contents?

[Jeeqbit]

In my experience all content has been the same except for Stormblood content, which has taken much longer than usual. This may have been because of all the sages and reapers adjusting to their new jobs, but I had raids and trials taking a full 10 minutes where they would normally not last that long. But I'm happy with this because content being harder is good.

When I got A8 I actually saw the mechanics which is a good thing, because it was no longer fun to do it before the squish.

[Lihtleita]

honestly hope so, i would like roulettes to be a bit more interesting

[IdowhatIwant]

I think lower level content feels easier.

[Mysticunicycle]

After EW launch and its stat squish, I feel synced 8-man and 24-man fights pre-EW have become longer, and I keep seeing mech that you can only see when you have half of your raid geared with AF armor.


For example, I got into a the Factory raid. People played decently (very few deaths), but I saw boss 3 doing meteor circles where you have to stand on, which I never saw before even with a badly performed party. Or Nier Tower raid where the final boss used her lines of ring attack in second form TWICE with a decent raid, while the pre-EW badly performing raid only barely saw the ring attack once at best.



8-man is at least bearable cuz it is like 1-2 minutes extra, but 24-man is a nightmare. Any 24-man that is not Crystal Tower ones or Void Ark were painfully long cuz of HP-sponge boss, and now they take even longer to kill even with max ilv synced. This only drives more people to cheat ilv to get into Crystal Tower raids with Alliance Roulette.


Anyone else feels these raids have taken much longer to finish? Or maybe I were just unlucky?

The Nier and Ivalice alliance raids take like 50% + longer than they did in ShB to complete. Puppet's Bunker is like 45minutes long with an average group. You're not crazy. They definitely need to reduce the hp of these raids by a lot.

[Fayt1203]

The Nier and Ivalice alliance raids take like 50% + longer than they did in ShB to complete. Puppet's Bunker is like 45minutes long with an average group. You're not crazy. They definitely need to reduce the hp of these raids by a lot.

Think u are just getting bad groups in Ivalice just did orbonne yesterday and there is not much different pre Ew and now. for me at least

Nier on the other hand is a different story also did copy factory yesterday and it feels like how should i say it that u have minimum item level when doing it now. very similar how it was when copy factory was first released back in Shb

[Zsolen]

It's hard to determine for me, since two runs of the same instance can go completely differently. This goes more so for raids than dungeons.

[Deceptus]

People who are saying "I think it should be harder" are the exact reason players ilvl scum the Alliance Roulette. Let that sink in for a while.

People don't want their time wasted on pointless HP sponges in content that is years old.

[Ath192]

People who are saying "I think it should be harder" are the exact reason players ilvl scum the Alliance Roulette. Let that sink in for a while.

People don't want their time wasted on pointless HP sponges.

People who cheat the alliance roulette do so because the game allows them to, and the crystal tower alliance raid is so easy it allows them to AFK.

Last time I checked people who love a game don’t enjoy clocking out and falling asleep. Those are called free loaders.

Just imagine for a second building and developing a game around the notion that content should be so easy people can AFK and finish everything in 10 minutes without putting any effort. Does that really sound like fun to anyone? Even casual folk enjoy a fight with a healthy dose of challenge, nothing crazy.

[Vahlnir]

As far as synced content goes...yeah, I've noticed it takes a bit longer than it did before. As far as unsynced content goes, itt depends on the content mostly. In ARR and HW content we have the "super echo" which makes just about anything faceroll if you throw enough bodies at it (Poor Alexander Prime lol). In Stormblood and Shadowbringers we have something a bit more...standard, which makes everything just a little easier but still requires performing certain mechanics. But certain fights can still be brute forced easily enough, like some Extremes and Savage fights. Kefka/God Kefka can be burned down easily enough without worrying about too many mechanics, for example. And even if some people die he usually ends up going down not long after. Ruby Weapon Ex is kind of the same deal, except there are a couple mechanics that still need to be handled properly. But it's mostly on a case by case basis.