You just reminded me of the time I took a long break from the game in early 2.0, came back either just before or a little bit after 2.1 went live, cleared through the rest of the game then got to Amdapor Keep with some friends, one of them kept hyping up how I was going to get absolutely ball busted by the DPS checks, we ended up clearing it super easy, and their response was just "Uhhhhhhhhh I guess they nerfed it, I dunno." Kinda funny.
I mean I do that now if I get the Dark Within in trial roulettes, that fight fucking sucks for rando's way harder than even Titannia did.
Finding it easier myself, now that I know the fight. It's a very useful experience in practicing my rotation in the middle of all the bullshit a trial/raid throws at you.
You would fucking think huh?
Think it's one of those re-watchable cutscenes from the hotel room. But yeah, screencap that Jojo shit.
I was going to speculate, in so many words, that I might be Mandela effecting the fight because my memory sucks dick sometimes, but after doing some cross-referencing between an older video and a newer video, I can actually say that yes, Cutter's Cry appears to have been nerfed at some point and I never really noticed until now.
The regular version? EX is pretty tight with timing, but it's still possible to carry shitters - my first clear had a BLM that was doing less than the healers and yet somehow we did manage to just barely get it through.
Black Mages are either godlike or complete shit because of the nature of the class. There's almost no in-between. The class got a ton of QoL improvements in EW that really should make it easier for new players to get into... but that would require them to read their fucking tooltips and look up a guide. Freeze mages and retards who spam their weakest spells are going to byfar be the norm.
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It did summon multiple...like 6 years ago. We just kill it far too fast for that to be a threat. Once upon a time the best way to handle this boss was for the healer to just kite in a circle and hit the main boss because killing the adds is a waste of time, I remember doing that while leveling Ast to try out the new healer. It took awhile before any adds showed up but we also killed it in about 2-3 minutes as opposed to 1 minute, so I don't think it is a nerf just a case of our damage is just too inflated at low levels.
Mr. Brappy brought up a pretty good point in his history of raiding vid that the way people even play the game is pretty drastically different than it was in ARR. It wasn't until pretty late in 2.0 that healers gave a lot of thought to DPS and ABC wasn't so heavily ingrained to the playerbase yet. So yeah, the potency creep is part of it, but also players are significantly more efficient when it comes to clearing shit.
I think they're changing things around with the expectation that people are going to try and cap every job now. In the media tour Q&A, Yoshi-P said that they (apparently) had never really built the system around normal players leveling everything to cap and the fact that so many did was a bit of a surprise and that they were making adjustments with that in mind.
Multiple adds pop on the 2nd phase (have had it happen a few times with all Sprout groups) but the first phase specifically has "the Boss summons an army of Antdudes" with only one popping up. Was wondering if this was a translation error or an artifact from 1.0 (or whatever.)
