Quote Originally Posted by Gurgeh View Post
I'm frankly not interested in clearing, just in fun progging
See, that's why finding a static with the same goals as you is important. Some people don't do savage to clear; they do it for the fun times and laughter together. This can cause them simply to never try very hard and never actually clear third floors and beyond.
PF just... how does that sound like fun to anyone.
Sometimes you meet fun people in PF and end up in random, small PUG discords so you can play with them again. Never really know, but happened lots of times for me in PF that I found a really great party where we all clicked.
Quote Originally Posted by Gurgeh View Post
If all of this has happened just to be able to make one phase of fights harder for the top 10% of the top 15% then that just tragically stupid.
It kinda did. Another way to look at it is they are trying to artificially "raise" the performance of not-good players by making them "play well" without realizing it - by synchronizing buffs seamlessly. Either way, they constrained the job design over it like you said.
I'm frankly irritated by the talk of 24 man savage, because I couldn't even get enough interest in criterion.
I understand that. That type of savage is typically run via large discord servers that run events for the community. It's all very inviting really and they do callouts to make it really easy to beat it.