They made quest battles too easy.

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Originally Posted by Ninimo_Babamo

You really shouldn't be worried about the difficulty of questing. It isn't meant to be challenging and never was even in 1.0.

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So, essentially, you didn't read my post at all. Well, I'll reply anyway to your sentiment.

Just because MMORPGs expect you to lower your standards, doesn't mean you should. I would not play any other videogame that took dozens and dozens of hours before the central combat system started to matter (moreover, for it to only matter for a treadmill experience of gear-checks). There being a trend of low level content being meaningless fluff to take up the time of players is not a valid excuse. This is something you've just come to expect and will settle for (and thus the MMORPG genre will not improve). You would maybe have a point if the game didn't already show it can be something more.

As for new players, there are ways to help them through. Ways they've already implemented, ranging from fair (more hints, items improved) to very hand-holdy (failure enchantment). These were added alongside a fun-destroying nerfs (and the failure enchantment being pushed too hard). You may be thinking "but they can't do it!" I'm sorry, but this whole attitude is the result of buying too much into the idea that players must be patronized to no end, that they are helpless children that must be carried place to place. The fact is that players do have problem-solving skills and if you are half way generous with tips and tools, they will solve those problems (ARR without the nerf is certainly more than half way with its generosity). People already play videogames harder than this - Final Fantasy games. Monster Hunter is the second most popular franchise in Japan, highly competitive FPS and mobile puzzle games are the most popular in the west. Don't make it seem the difficulty curve isn't there, it is with lv. 5 and 10 main scenario and class quests (or it was, now it is just a flat-line). If anything, the difficulty spike was caused by people not understanding poison or that you shouldn't attack the mage - in other words, a lack of understanding of the basic rules of that scenario, not an inability to do it.

Also you are wrong about 1.0 never being challenging. It did towards the end of the Grand Company quests and several of the job quests. The Nael van Darnus fight was easily the highlight of the game to me. The thing is, it would have been even earlier if they employed level caps - like ARR does now (thank god). The main scenario of 1.0 was a complete mess of design, which allowed crafting and gathering classes to take part in combat scenarios.

Me against the golem boss:

First 5 minutes: Did a single WS. Then took off auto-attack and stood around practicing emotes.

Next 20 minutes: AFK'd to take a shower and read some websites.

Last 5 minutes: Came back and still had more than 3/4th of my health. Finally killed it with auto attack. Didn't dodge any of the AoEs (did 10-20 damage to me).

This has been the most interesting battle so far. Think I'm going to see how it feels play with my character completely naked and using the level 1 Axe.

EDIT: TRUE Final Fantasy Experience, says Yoshi-P.

it's sad because of the server problem they probably don't event care about this problem. The dungeon are really challenging right now (just did the lvl 35 it was amazing feeling). But quest monster are quite boring... i die once because of agro. It's get harder at 40 ? somebody reach this ?

Agreed. I'm also hate the fact this game seems to be generic quest hub jumping. I'm level 27 and it's just solo play pretty much. The only time I've grouped is for instanced mindless dungeons in which nobody even talks to each other, they mind as well be bots. The difficulty and social aspect doesn't seem to be there. Does this change at all higher up?

The difficulty in beta 3 was near freaking perfect as long as it would scale higher as you leveled up it was great..
In it's current state it's truly , as some have said, downright insulting, how can you call something a game or challenge when you literally are not a driving factor in what's happening, you can just stand there and watch the npcs do the job in a lot of the quests.
This seriously needs to be changed.. the majority was against any lowering in difficulty. Changing it because of some stupid, and very little, group of whiners was a very bad move.

I'm asking myself if they have test the modification in Phase 4, because the difficulty nerf is extreme ... and the removal of elemental wheel is just plain stupid. I thought they would have balance everything out for the release but server problem so to take 100% of their time...

To bad they delete the feedback section during beta forum a lot of people was complaining about this..

I challenge folks to do the class quests for ACN or CNJ. Where all of a sudden the game switches from KILL THIS MOB to imma gonna through multiple mobs in your face and you have to keep NPCs alive without having the benefit of a party interface to monitor their health.

It's not "easy" and that's level 15 content.

So yes, they made the level 15 story quest easier. But most of the rest of the solo instances have not been. Easy for you does not equal easy for everyone. You want tougher, level up and do the hard mode primals, or the Bahumet raid.

SERIOUSLY if u had problems with those fights there something very wrong with you the difficulty of the main story quest or any quest for that matter it's down right insulting there no feeling of accomplishment after beating the main story and getting my magitek mount. I DONT FEEL LIKE I A CCOMPLISHED ANTHING more like I was jumping from npc to npc killing everything in my way. even in the open world there are no "OH SHIT RUN" mobs >:( I hope the endgame is not soo easy mode.