Live Letter from the Producer, 1/12/16Follow

Raid finder has you write a description, list your group so people can see what you are interested in and you wait for people who are interested to contact you. In XI, you write a description, list yourself so people can see what you are interested in and you wait for people who are interested to contact you. Who is leading or being led matters little because you're still doing the same thing.

There's a difference between being a leader and being the leader of your group. One makes you qualified to form a competent team of players to clear a raid and the other affords you an icon next to your name. The people who are willing to lead a successful raid don't need a tool because they already realize that it's not saving them any 'work'.

The fact that it's cross-server is a wash. Like I said earlier you do increase the player pool which increases your odds of recruiting or being recruited, but those odds are offset by the fact that you're also introducing more competition for your raid spots and more inexperienced players looking for a carry.

..I can already tell that update is going to disappoint.

It's the same old, same old formula. Don't think it's going to change too much for the next year or so, if ever. Like I say, their focus seems to be towards making things pretty at this point. Half the threads if not more are about adding certain dresses or suits, or whatever and it's what they're going to keep doing. It's little work with good rewards from the cash shop.

Then when people bring up "bad players" in terms of low DPS, or bad healing, they get flamed beyond anything. Most defend the bad play saying it doesn't matter, this is why nothing ever improves in the DF.

Edited, Jan 30th 2016 5:35pm by Montsegurnephcreep

I doubt they will do much in that regard, to be honest, for one big reason:
The "bloated" HP you're claiming tanks will have is actually the HP they're *supposed* to have in the first place

Living Dead is an even worse ability than Holmgang (a lot of times Holmgang aused me deaths that I think I could have avoided, as a result of being bound and unable to dodge an aoe right as the buff drops... that sort of thing is circumstantial and unlucky though; Living Dead on the other hand pretty much actively tries to kill you) and I therefore didn't even grace it with a slot on my two crossbars.

Besides, with all this "surplus" HP tanks are supposedly going to have now, they should have even less reason to ever need it, right?

All I can say is, newfound HP or not, I'm sure groups of randoms will find ways to let me die anyway.