Should SE scale high end content difficulty towards the usage of SIM ?

[Absurdity]

I also honestly don't see the issue with it, obviously it should not affect their content balancing since all that tool really does is let you practice mechanics on your own.
Is it a problem because you don't have to sit through 3 hours of party finder with people lying about their prog and wasting your time before you can actually practice the mechanic you need practice on?
Oh no, the horror.

You're still just practicing movement and you ultimately still need to do the real fight in-game.

[CaedemSanguis]

I also honestly don't see the issue with it, obviously it should not affect their content balancing since all that tool really does is let you practice mechanics on your own.
Is it a problem because you don't have to sit through 3 hours of party finder with people lying about their prog and wasting your time before you can actually practice the mechanic you need practice on?
Oh no, the horror.

You're still just practicing movement and you ultimately still need to do the real fight in-game.

The problem is that SIM makes the fight way easier overall to prog

[Absurdity]

The problem is that SIM makes the fight way easier overall to prog

Does it though?

The people who manage to do mechanics correctly in the SIM can clear them in the actual game just as well, it would just take them longer.

Because all the tool really does is cut out the all the time wasting, sitting in PF for hours waiting for parties to fill or wiping to earlier mechanics that your party should've easily solved already because someone lied.


So yeah, I guess it technically does make the fight easier to prog, by simply cutting out factors that would otherwise waste your time for zero gain and that you have little control over.
And in the end you still need to get into the game, get your party together and clear the fight for real, you just didn't spend 20+ hours extra to get to that point.

[CaedemSanguis]

Does it though?

Yeah, to me the "consistency" check + the pressure to do the prog point mechanic right is also a part of the prog

[Lilapop]

The problem is that SIM makes the fight way easier overall to prog

Of course, and then people would complain content is too easy and blame Square.

[CaedemSanguis]

Of course, and then people would complain content is too easy and blame Square.

Within or without SIM/3rd party tools, FRU/M1s-M4s are undertuned compared to DSR/TOP/P1s-P4s