The constant disbanding of Steps of Faith

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Originally Posted by Sapphic

I'm still placing my bets that first week of Alexander normal we will see posts demanding nerfs.

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You can't make a bet when we're making the same bets. Wait, can we?

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Originally Posted by RiceisNice

Difficulty is subjective. I've never played 1.0 so I really cannot comment on the difficulty just by looking at it, I jsut see a lot of standing around, rupping up the stairs to destroy meteors, and not step in laser.
1.0 Nael also did not gate you from playing ARR. That being said though, SoF is still presented very differently from every other main scenario fight (or fights that are put on DF immediately) that it's causing enough problems for a low clear rate. You really do not want the latter when its a requirement for an entire expansion

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The trouble is all story content up until now has basically consisted of 'burn the boss until it dies'. Most mechanics involving dodging things do so little damage that far too many players have gotten used to them being inconsequential. Now we have a fight that simply requires players to fire three cannons and detonate some dynamite to kill him and players find it too hard because they simply cannot adapt. This is just a case of lazy players stuck in their ways unwilling to play a different way to defeat the boss (using the environment instead of directly attacking them). These players will NEVER learn unless they are forced to do so to progress.

The real issue I have here is that if SE has to nerf this fight to let the bad players through does that mean we can't have any medium difficulty content that doesn't just consist of burning the boss and ignoring AOEs? If a bunch of idiots can't learn how to play through an easy fight (and yes it is OBJECTIVELY easy, you literally just push a bunch of switches when an NPC tells you to during the fight) do the rest of us have to suffer through monotonous, anti-climactic and disappointing storyline encounters for the rest of the game's lifespan?

What if all story content in the expansion is of a similar calibre to SoF? What point is there in nerfing the fight if all these players will just get stuck on the next encounter anyway?

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Originally Posted by Grekumah

Thanks for your feedback.

Adjustments to ease the Steps of Faith trial are in the works, and we'll be announcing more information about the how and when soon enough!

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That's why we can't have nice things. :( Thanks, guys! (players), it's Pharos Sirius all over again...

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Originally Posted by Alberel

This is just a case of lazy players stuck in their ways unwilling to play a different way

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Sounds like quite a few FFXI and 14 1.0 players that switched to FFXIV ARR XD

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Originally Posted by Gardes

You can't make a bet when we're making the same bets. Wait, can we?

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I guess we just did XD

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Originally Posted by Sapphic

Sounds like quite a few FFXI and 14 1.0 players that switched to FFXIV ARR XD

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Chains of Promethia. Yea. us XI players never had challenging content to get through our story mode... :P

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Originally Posted by Grekumah

Thanks for your feedback.

Adjustments to ease the Steps of Faith trial are in the works, and we'll be announcing more information about the how and when soon enough!

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Thanks for pandering to bad players.

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Originally Posted by Eidolon

Chains of Promethia. Yea. us XI players never had challenging content to get through our story mode... :P

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They should add 2-3 and 6-4 as crossover trials. The tears would be delicious.

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Originally Posted by Miitan

Thanks for pandering to bad players.

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thy didn't have a choice if they want to sell 3.0

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Originally Posted by Tint

thy didn't have a choice if they want to sell 3.0

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They could increase the difficulty of the 2.1 - 2.4 story fights to increase the good players at 2.55

And I really really hope that during the first 3 days of heavensward no new thread show up with "[insert new content] is too hard, nerf it"