Mechanically FRU is in a fine spot and is challenging enough, the problem comes from both DPS balance and mitigative balance. Grabbing a picto for your static feels like you can cheat entering phases w a dd or weakness when you otherwise should be wiping there. Even groups without picto wont be as challenged from an enrage prespective as groups doing early TOP or DSR were.
In terms of mitigation, this fight feels like it does as much damage as TEA but everyone has like 10 more mitigative actions to press through 20 levels worth of inflating the healing and defensive skills. I dont think the solution to this issue is to have raid wides spread out every 5 seconds of the encounter but I do think the fight should kill you more often when one or two people forget to press a mit (which never happens in this fight) And that the busters can definitely hit harder if you're meant to take every single one of the fight with a kitchen sink or invuln (which god please disable invulns in ult encounters)
My concern is that the dev team adopts this defeatist mentality when content releases that passes under people's expectations, where they just shrug and accept doing balance adjustments on the next patch which is when the content dies anyways due to new pots food and job buffs. If the devs really do watch the world first race atleast on the side then picto's brokenness and the lack of real raidwide damage should have been apparent enough and warrant an emergency hotfix mid race. Which would be appreciated over just accepting that the ult is gonna be less exciting.
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In terms of mitigation, this fight feels like it does as much damage as TEA but everyone has like 10 more mitigative actions to press through 20 levels worth of inflating the healing and defensive skills. I dont think the solution to this issue is to have raid wides spread out every 5 seconds of the encounter but I do think the fight should kill you more often when one or two people forget to press a mit (which never happens in this fight) And that the busters can definitely hit harder if you're meant to take every single one of the fight with a kitchen sink or invuln (which god please disable invulns in ult encounters)
My concern is that the dev team adopts this defeatist mentality when content releases that passes under people's expectations, where they just shrug and accept doing balance adjustments on the next patch which is when the content dies anyways due to new pots food and job buffs. If the devs really do watch the world first race atleast on the side then picto's brokenness and the lack of real raidwide damage should have been apparent enough and warrant an emergency hotfix mid race. Which would be appreciated over just accepting that the ult is gonna be less exciting.
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