Is it time for enrage timers in normal content?

[All_Nonsense]

Let's be honest, normal content really isn't difficult the first time you run it, and a lot of what I see healers complaining about could be solved with "and then the boss enraged." So let's brainstorm some QoL changes to help our healer friends out.

It doesn't even need to be a hard enrage. Perhaps every time a boss loops back on its mechanics to cycle through again it gets a damage up. Or it could just be a simple timer that accounts for things like player deaths etc to make it fair for less experienced players, players with accessibility issues, or players who are leveling classes they can't play (I hate blm reeeeee but I gotta level it). Additionally, it could body check and when it sees that fewer than 3 players have been alive for a minute, an enrage procs. Lots of solutions here that won't affect players w/ accessibility issues.

I haven't been in a situation where I've seen a tank solo a boss down from full or whatever, but it seems like an enrage would fix that. Thoughts?

[alfarini]

No. Absolutely not.

[Karious]

Why? If I want to solo a boss as a tank after my entire party wiped due to incompetence, that's my choice.

[angienessyo]

It used to have enrages! Stormblood definitely had them in the normal raids. I learned this on Halicarnassus during Shadowbringers when most the party had died and we tried to keep going. And well, she eventually just 1 shots the whole party at a certain point.

[Supersnow845]

Why? If I want to solo a boss as a tank after my entire party wiped due to incompetence, that's my choice.

Translation- when I survive because I take 80% less damage than my party, have an inordinate amount of free self healing and extra defensives to press when I know I’ve made a mistake it’s my right to hold the whole party hostage who runs on a much smaller margin for error

[Karious]

Translation- when I survive because I take 80% less damage than my party, have an inordinate amount of free self healing and extra defensives to press when I know I’ve made a mistake it’s my right to hold the whole party hostage who runs on a much smaller margin for error

They're welcome to leave and not get the clear if they want.

[Supersnow845]

They're welcome to leave and not get the clear if they want.

Actually you can’t leave an encounter during combat

[Shinku_Tachi]

Let's be honest, normal content really isn't difficult the first time you run it, and a lot of what I see healers complaining about could be solved with "and then the boss enraged." So let's brainstorm some QoL changes to help our healer friends out.

It doesn't even need to be a hard enrage. Perhaps every time a boss loops back on its mechanics to cycle through again it gets a damage up. Or it could just be a simple timer that accounts for things like player deaths etc to make it fair for less experienced players, players with accessibility issues, or players who are leveling classes they can't play (I hate blm reeeeee but I gotta level it). Additionally, it could body check and when it sees that fewer than 3 players have been alive for a minute, an enrage procs. Lots of solutions here that won't affect players w/ accessibility issues.

I haven't been in a situation where I've seen a tank solo a boss down from full or whatever, but it seems like an enrage would fix that. Thoughts?

Yes, enrage timers on all trials and dungeon midbosses and bosses.

It doesn't even have to be ridiculous or anything.

Just set the enrage timer 5 minutes after of a boss's or trial's average completion time.
That will leave plenty of time for a full or mostly full party do deal with a fight, as well as punish a selfish tank, grieving a group, trying to solo a fight for a half an hour.

[Oizen]

Translation- when I survive because I take 80% less damage than my party, have an inordinate amount of free self healing and extra defensives to press when I know I’ve made a mistake it’s my right to hold the whole party hostage who runs on a much smaller margin for error

Translation - I stood in the yellow

[Cach]

I don't think it would work, if you give the average DPS player a fraction of a percent of responsibility, they'll turn into a crying wojack immediately and riot on the streets.

In my opinion, if your whole group dies, you should get a undispellable 30s Doom debuff.

And since we are talking about debuffs, some effects should be more common like "blocks 90% of healing from all sources" or fixed gravity damage, among other things.