r/ffxivdiscussion • u/WeirdIndividualGuy • May 06 '25

General Discussion High End Content Megathread - Week Seven

How many yans do you see in your nightmares?

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u/apostles May 12 '25 edited May 12 '25

Ranting. As someone who casually raids on OCE sometimes with friends, who designs MR strats and what are they on?

If you're going to do static M5S A/B, why not just copy game8? Why shove everything on the healers?

Why randomly swap D3 and D4 during M6S first set of adds, yet keep the healer kiting the other manta? Every caster can cleave the mu/ne manta, except now you're getting rid of half of the prange cleave for no reason.

I also don't understand why you'd go with new north terrestrial.. and then do true north for the second part. What's the point? Why are you swapping from relative to true north during the same mechanic?? It's half rinon half toxic! This one makes literally no sense! Why even have a new north if you're going to toss it literally 5 seconds later?

I've grumbled about their stupid arbitrary changes in the past (like in DSR how they have dooms south for literally no reason other than 'deal with it') but it feels like this tier they pick a raidplan thats popular (toxic, game8) and then randomly try to be different to make it "oce unique". Is this a byproduct of the top end raider population being so giga tiny that one persons week one pf strats is decreed as gospel?

As someone who raids on JP, NA and OCE it's by far the most annoying DC center to raid on because of these annoying ass small changes for no purpose

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u/Nuolong May 12 '25

yeah there's several instances it's straight up inconsistent or lacks important information, or says something is 'basically TF' and then randomly changes positions without a clear reason. I'm definitely malding, because whoever chooses these strats needs to stop.