For anyone wondering this is what the new events look like

[Demon6324236]

To quote my Reive Alliance "I'm just tired of dying" <player disbands>

Everyone who thought the game was too easy should be happy now, since it seems you need a party of 6 with a tank and bard just to not wipe on the casual stuff.

Not liking the new direction at all.

How are you fighting? Do you have a healer? Are you popping -def abilities like Berserk or Last Resort? Do you use a TP/PDT Hybrid set for fighting if you have no healer? There are a number of reasons you may find yourself eating dirt, this is not Abyssea anymore, where everything can be soloed and its all easy. This is a dangerous jungle you were fighting in, one filled with a ton of wildlife which has not had people hunting it like the jungles near Kazham, but rather a much more dangerous one. This content was designed to be about players exploring and colonizing dangerous areas filled with monsters that make even the strongest of adventurers run in fear if they are alone. I do not know the conditions for your battle, but let me say it this way, party setup is returning in this expansion, if you had a bad setup, thats probably why you failed, if people were getting 1-shotted without compromising their defensive abilities then you would have a problem on your hands, but with how it is now, I think its fine myself.

[Crusader81]

the pic shows my gear.. I'm using Apoc with VW PDT- gear..

A whm and me from LS went out and tried to duo, I can kill one just fine, that's not the issue, the aggro range for everything is as large as the accepted range to do the Reive..
I've accidently wondered out and before I even see the warning it's over.. I'm outside range and it takes my status for 10 mins. It's ridiculous

Anyhow we wiped in about 10 secs when everything in the area aggro'd me the whm wondered out and lost status and couldn't raise me.

at that point he said "this isn't fun at all.." to which we both agreed we lost all the excitement for wanting to play for the night, and are going to do other things.

To all you guys defending this crap, this is really how you want the game to be on the first Fri since release?

The game should have no higher interest than tonight and I'm not seeing very many ppl even on or interested after dying a ton.

I can see needing an alliance or party when doing a battlefield.. but this is walk up and engage content out in the field. It shouldn't be like this.

Total let down.

[Obysuca]

A whm and me from LS went out and tried to duo

[Found it!], there's your problem >.> At least 10 mobs and some walls. In 99 content . You thought you could duo? >.> This isn't easy mode Aby anymore. It's not hard to do a shout and get some people, that's how I ended up in an alliance for this, going around beating down every reive we ran into. Suck it up, it's not that difficult to find some people and use teamwork/strategy instead of thinking you can just DD + Whm everything.

[Cabalabob]

I can see needing an alliance or party when doing a battlefield.. but this is walk up and engage content out in the field. It shouldn't be like this.

Agreed, rieves aren't content that you get a party together to take on, they aren't even like campaign battles where you can actively seek out the area to fight and organise people to go there, this is just something you come across in the wild and jump in on but the difficulty is scaled to the point where you need to get organised with a group for something that you might come across on your journey and not many people travel in groups anymore they generally shout for content and go meet at it.

[katiekat]

if i remember right rieves were meant to be ment for low groups not full out party's least that is what they said at vannafest.

[Crusader81]

I was duoing just to test how long we'd live, we had to duo because everyone else was dead.

I think the fact so many mobs were up now shows how many people have lost interest since last night even.

[Mittenz]

They were being done fine on my server earlier today, in fact if you were not engaged in 5s of it popping you wouldnt be able to get any credit toward it because everything just died.

[Crusader81]

Tahn stop being rude. Why don't you load up your PUP or SMN and go do some battles.

I'm not suggesting we go back to Abyssea, but content this annoying, YES ANNOYING, where you walk out of AoE range for 3 secs and you're kicked out of battle for 10 mins NO EXCEPTIONS! and the AoE range of mobs covers the battle field of the event is just annoying and not fun.

Have you even played a good number of battles? at different times of day? This content should be totally do-able right now since this is when the most players are into the new content; if it's like this now it's only going to get worse, as more and more start to drop off.

I remember how things were in 2004, they've obviously decided to keep XI as exceptionally hard, and make XIV more "casual: aka non-agonizing"
I just don't want to go back to how things worked back then. Things have been steadily progressing since CoP, and now this is like right back to the start.
I'm not recruiting up a huge LS, dealing with a points system, and dealing with a bunch of scheduling conflicts.
so if you guys want to do that for an event that gives 1000 exp and 500 byald and by SE own addmission casual, then have fun. I can only imagine the hell coming if the casual content is this disfuctional.

Not to mention I finished all the missions in about an hour.

I do agree the quest format and exp rewards is a huge step in the right direction, but this other stuff just really takes away from what does work in this expansion.

[Alhanelem]

I'm not suggesting we go back to Abyssea, but content this annoying, YES ANNOYING, where you walk out of AoE range for 3 secs and you're kicked out of battle for 10 mins NO EXCEPTIONS! and the AoE range of mobs covers the battle field of the event is just annoying and not fun.

I'm not in disagreement that somet hings need to be adjusted. But these are technical issues. They can and probably will be addressed. The problems are not with the core design of the content or the strength of the monsters or any of that.

[Kintups]

must suck to be on shiva