Redo FFXIV: Remove the dance, introduce RNG encounters

[Payadopa]

As for getting an unlucky combination, like you said it's something to laugh about and try again. Unfortunately, too many players present any type of failure as meaning a player is bad and so players hate getting placed into situations where there's a strong chance of failure. It's rather ironic considering that the players who fail the most are the highly skilled players tackling the most difficult content. They don't let failure hold them back. Those who leave a party after a single wipe do.

That's just jumping to extremes. Randomised might as well mean [some parts of it], or make the readomised sections less punishing to balance it out. The fact that bosses one-shot you is to compensate for the staticness of the fight. If you want the same fight but no punishment you can go do a dungeon.

No, slightly more effort/diversifying content doesn't mean everyone unsubbing as much as people here love to throw that around. If anything the boredom after finishing the MSQ will.

[Saraide]

P8s door boss also doesnt follow the example set in the OP. It's random if it's dog first or snake first but the rest of it is set from that point onwards. If P8s followed the example in the OP then the order of mechanics could be dog 1, dog 2, snake 2 and then snake 1. Which would actually make it very foolish to reset the moment you see dog 1 as first mechanic.

[Alexandre_Noireau]

More emergent gameplay is always fine.

[Absimiliard]

Gonna be real. At this point I just kinda turn my brain off and do the dance without even thinking. Every fight boils down to being where I'm supposed to be and pressing the buttons I am supposed to press. I don't even pay attention to what the other people in the raid are saying, although I do keep an eye on what they're doing for when one of them inevitably tries to kill me.

I don't hate the dance, but I do hate the fact that's all there is to it. Once you've memorized a fight, that's that. I would like fights to include just enough randomization (i.e. set mechanics, but you don't necessarily know what order they're coming in or how fast they'll come out) that getting them "on farm" is impossible. Having to go hard each and every time, or you aren't getting loot that week. They'd gradually get easier anyway as your gear improves and you start learning the tells for each mechanic -- and they would need some kind of tells for players to have any hope of reacting, but preferably not telegraph markers.

And no more vuln debuff. Just make people take horrendous amounts of damage when they screw up. For many, getting deleted by that mechanic they failed would send the message a lot clearer than "oh no, I messed up and will now take marginally more damage for 60 seconds." We didn't get vuln stacks in Coils, my dudes. You know what happened if you screwed up while fighting Twintania or Nael during their respective tiers? You either died or gave a healer a heart attack.