Quote Originally Posted by Saraide View Post
It's meant on the same level, one chain of 3 bosses back to back with 15k each or one singular boss with 100k. No where did I say I was talking about different levels. You just made that up, just like you made up a fourth boss.
So you're telling me that you do the exact same damage numbers in ARR dungeons that you do in SHB dungeons? You hit a boss for 2000 dmg in SHB dungeons and then you roulette into an ARR dungeon and you're still hitting bosses for 2000 dmg? Because that's the only possible way your 15k vs 100k boss argument works.

And Brayflox has four bosses, so.

I cannot believe the amount of gaslighting that's gone on in this thread. Here are some other things that are bs:

- The SHB Trust NPCs do not do more damage if you stop hitting your buttons. I tried this twice in Holminster Switch. The dungeon took 50% longer to beat.

- The SHB Trust NPCs do not switch to AOE attacks if you pull W2W. I tried this three times in Malikah's Well and once in Mt. Gulg. Thancred died before even one enemy did because Alphinaud couldn't keep up with the healing, and I wiped every single time.

- The SHB Trust NPCs and the ARR/HW Duty Supports are not functionally the same because you CAN pull W2W in ARR/HW dungeons and not die. Ysayle had no problems in Sohm Al when I tried it, and that dungeon is filled with poison at parts.

The new Duty Support AI is better than the SHB Trust AI. Period. And I just want the SHB Trusts to be as good.

Quote Originally Posted by Saraide View Post
Anyway, you're still missing the point and you are doing so with surgical precision.
That's because your point is just a meaningless theoretical that's backed up by "bro trust me." You haven't given me a single shred of evidence that Trusts attacking one at a time vs Duty Support using AOEs is the same. All you've done is just state it while not so subtly calling me stupid for being "tricked" into thinking otherwise.

I have been actively playing in the Duty Support and the Trusts for the past two months trying to get an alt to all jobs at 90. There is a marked difference between the two. Don't tell me that there's not, because this is literally the bulk of what I've been doing in the game nonstop.

Again: if there was no functional difference between the new Duty Supports and the SHB Trusts, then why would they bother changing the behavior of the AI at all? Seriously. If they produce exactly the same results, why did SE bother spending dev time, resources, and money to make the behaviors different? Especially when the team is already stretched thin thanks to FFXVI.

It's because they don't produce the same result, and the newer content is better tuned. And I certainly would hope so, since SHB came out nearly four years ago now.

If you can come back with an argument with more substance than just "shut up, even" then I'll entertain it. But I've lost my patience with this. I'm not replying to you again.