The Royal Menagerie

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Originally Posted by Namixx

What does matter is data from the game, and unfortunately, success level of this trial is abysmal at the moment which says to us that difficulty is indeed too high.

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Lol, can you please provide me such "data"? Because we're almost a week and a couple of days since Early Access begun, lots of people were stuck in Raubahn, then long queues. I'm sure a "casual", as you people define them, wouldn't get there that fast. I'm *almost* sure there's no data to back that up yet.

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Originally Posted by Masekase_Hurricane

They should only have to react to the first one the others can be dodged.

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Oh, that's news to me. Thanks for pointing it out!

Got it on first clear. Left 1 paladin and healer to save the day. I die at 03% Of boss health. Mechanic and doing my rotation is fun.

It wasn't a hard fight but took me 10 wipes or so because the other 7 members didn't really get the hang of it after 5 wipes or so. The mechanics are easy and it is just big big damage. EX will be a nightmare and that i'm sure of. Please don't nerf the normal version because it was a really cool fight and amazing finale for Stormblood's conclusion.

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Originally Posted by IllyriaKnotfred

Welcome to MMOs. Enjoy your stay? You must be new here.

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You must be new to FFXIV. Enjoy your stay kiddo.

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Well, some people should use filters. I mean, is it really necessary to see all your incoming and outgoing damage in your log? Use the Battle Tab for that.

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Don't think that's usually the problem that people have, because as you said, a Battle tab exists, and people probably don't just stay on that all the time.

The problem is the on-screen NPC messages that are only there for a couple seconds usually, and the fact that combat is often too engrossing (and occasionally, reliant on twitch reaction speed for dodging mechanics) for people to be looking at their chat windows mid-battle.

Got my clear today, after one failed attempt yesterday. My opinion?

This is a kind of difficulty I highly welcome. It tests you as a player, which imo is a really good thing in the MSQ. Skill checks like this shouldn't be exclusive to raids/Savage/Extreme Primals. I even lmao'd when I figured out that Tempered Will actually had a use in the fight, often it's just a dead cd. Tidal Wave? Tempered Will. Tornado? Tempered Will. If anything, with the way this trial is set up, it seperates the good from the bad, forcing the bad to actually git gud. Don't die and expect to get carried, you'll only cause the duty to fail if you do.

That said, I did have my few moments of screw-ups since the trial is quite stressful to me (never setting Sprint next to LB again, it's bad for tanks). People have been incredibly forgiving though, wanting the clear just as much as any other group. It really made me feel good and happy I decided to main a tank for the SB MSQ, it really pushed me to my limits even if tanking is really exhausting to me.

The OF actually had me pretty concerned about this fight, but after having cleared it, I found those concerns were completely unwarranted.

The group I had for Royal Menagerie ended up two-shotting, and several of the members were going in completely blind. Maybe my experience is the exception rather than the rule, but the fight itself really doesn't feel difficult at all, and the mechanics are mostly all old stuff. It seems relatively forgiving as well since we had a couple of deaths but were still able to clear pretty handily.

So yes, I am in concurrence with OP. This is a climactic and very epic-feeling fight, and to nerf it would really take away from that experience.

I am sorry but when lots of players are stuck at the final freaking boss of a Main Story Quest there is something wrong when people are beating the new EXs left and right. Also, I am going on almost 10hrs straight of trying to get a kill and it is becoming harder and harder to continue playing until it is nerfed since we don't get access to the 310 gear until after the MSQ is over.

Considering almost all of the dungeons and trials beforehand were a huge face roll and then this being a huge difficulty spike it would have been nice considering you have to go into party finder unless you have an active Free company on willing to dedicate to playing with you. If Square wanted to give a hard fight like this they should have made the other story line content leading up to it harder to ease players into it rather than dumping them into a difficulty spike that they are unprepared for, ESPECIALLY when you can pay for level 60 and PAY to get through heavensward story content now like a joke. Leave the hard stuff for the extreme fights where the casual players can opt out of fights like these I have had to abandon this fight ten times already because pick up groups do not know that the tanks need to stack up on certain things, and some people will walk right off the edges.