FFXIV too easy or too hard?

I think the problem is the lack of midcore/casual/hardcore pve content

I'm not very far into the game yet, but here's my two cents.

Dungeon Content: Seems fine so far. It's good the duty finder version isn't hard, since the msq is tied to them.

PVP: No idea, and will never know. Not my cup of tea.

Crafting: Easy. The problem is restricted inventory while handling a billion ingredients.

Gathering: Same as crafting.

Leveling: Good. Tons of options how to do it. But I really dislike how many features are locked behind the msq. If you ingore the msq while you're leveling in other ways, you could end up at very high levels without access to a lot of stuff, even low level stuff like PotD.

Buying a house: I hear it's a nightmare, so I won't bother with that.

Raids: Not my thing in any MMO. Too much drama and elitism. won't bother in this game either.

Socializing (making friends): A freaking nightmare. Mostly due to the lack of chat channels. Heck, you can't even get access to newbie help without finding a mentor who then invite you to a certain channel. Also, the game right out tells you to go outside the game, on some website, to find FCs and friends. Absolutely ridiculous. For me, this is likely to become a gamebreaker.

Special Events: N/A.

Overall a great game, but has some serious flaws.

Personally, I think it's in the “Goldilocks zone” as far as MMOs go. Not too hard, not too easy. It is just right, and it has a little something for everyone of every skill level. Obviously there are improvements that they could make to a lot of things, but I don't have much to complain about.

I started at the beginning of ShB and rushed to 80 so I could be current. In doing so I skipped a LOT of content that had mechanics that are recycled later, like 50, 60, and 70 raids and trials. This made level 80 content much more difficult than it would have been had I done the raids and trials along the way. As I back-filled the gaps over the last two years, I had a TON of "OOOOOOHHHHH, that's why everyone ran away when the boss did that" moments that I wondered about while floor-tanking ShB content.

• Dungeon Content - Very Easy
  With few exceptions, I’d categorize them into ‘Easy’.
• PVP - Average(?)
  I don’t touch any other pvp content other than frontline.
• Crafting - Easy
  Starting out is a bit harder. But later on everything becomes easier to deal with.
• Gathering - Very Easy
  What? Just get out there mine & harvest.
• Leveling - Very Easy
  Armory bonus, rested experience, roulettes. You name it. All these makes leveling super easy.
• Buying a house - “Savage”
  No comment :’)
• Raids - Easy
  Content wise, raids are not ‘incredibly hard’ as it sounds like. Dealing the randomness that is players mistakes, however, can be challenging. Especially if said mistake happens in very crucial moment (i.e. before 8-man mechanic occurs).
• Socializing (making friends) - Average
  Being highly introvert myself does not stop me from socializing (and alot!), but making friend? I’m extremely selective because of saying ”Be careful of who you’re calling ‘friend’”. So I’m just gonna leave it on average. Each of us behaves differently, after all.
• Special Events - No idea D:
• Glamour - Ultimate
  Heeyyy you forgot this aspect!! It’s the hardest, endgame content!! XD

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Originally Posted by Thangil

Raids: Not my thing in any MMO. Too much drama and elitism. won't bother in this game either.

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I'm sorry i have to tell you this, but after completing the ARR story there is a raid you have to complete to progress, namely the crystal tower. Only reason it wasn't insufferable was the high level overpowered players which made it so there was barely any vitriol since it was mostly quick regardless of a few deaths. Still a few mocking remarks hiding as quips though (not directed at me, but an a-hole is an a-hole nonetheless), but that was to be expected. At least you don't have to do it again once it's over.

Still arbitrary considering how a certain someone thanks you for the help with bahamut regardless of if you have it unlocked or not.

- Dungeon Content : quite easy when you used to doing them, but perfect state now.

- PVP : I don't think hard, but I'm doing only frontlines. With my DNS, I easily can go 100 pts without dying.

- Crafting : well, I try plenty of time to leveling a crater, but it feels so long and pretty boring.

- Gathering : same as crafting. But leveling a Fisher with sea incursions is really nice.

- Leveling : perfect ! Some solo duties were too hard for me, but fortunately SE introduced difficulty levels.

- Buying a house : my FC bought a small house years ago, but seems to be ultra difficult to get one.

- Raids : same as dungeons, perfect difficulty for me. Never tried savage or ultimate tho.

- Socializing (making friends) : I got more social interactions than other MMOs I played, which it is good.

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Originally Posted by Roda

[*]Socializing (making friends)

Ugh. As a social butterfly I find it just a drag to try to talk to new people in this game. I WANT to, but it's just not worth it since my only way to interface with people is through a tiny portion of the corner of my screen that people have to stop what they're doing to look at. I'm really not going to bother trying to get people's attention anymore without player speech bubbles. I'll stick to discord if this game wants me to exclusively use a scrolling chat box. That and there's like nothing I can DO for other people out in the open world outside of raising them if they went afk near a hostile monster. (rip stoneskin) There aren't really any mechanical icebreakers like popping my INT buff on people, or putting up a table as a mage in WoW, or portaling people through tough exploration content as a mesmer in GW2, which means there is really no reason to engage with people who are out doing their own business because, well, you're just interrupting their flow instead of enhancing their experience.

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you didnt hear this from me but there are player made plugins that enable speech bubbles

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Originally Posted by Sebazy

Socializing (making friends) - Gonna go against the grain here, it's borderline awful. Why? Go back to early 2.x, content forced you go go out into the game world, travel and socialise in the process. Now you can do everything from outside your FC house's market board and bell. I miss the days of mingling with rival progression teams at Wineport. I used to know and be on first name terms with near enough every end game healer on the server back then. Now I barely know maybe 4 or 5 people in an previous FC I raided with for over 2 years. There are few times when you actually stop, mingle and interact with people outside of your circle now compared to how things were at release. Everything else is a rushed conveyer belt of duty speed runs largely in silence in part due to the report happy nature of some aspects of the community and erratic and often overly harsh GM responses.

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i agree this is a big problem, its hardly an MMO at this point and the overzealousness of GMs make communicating in public chat very risky

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Originally Posted by TTiscancer

The game has content for all ability levels. Do what you find fun and challenging and stop crying.

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stop posting

in general the game is way too easy with a practically non-existing difficulty curve until extremes, and then you get destroyed because nothing prepared you for this. freestyle samurais exist because they can, there is no punishment for it

• Dungeon Content
  Leveling can be challenging, but all endgame dungeons (50,60,70,80) are way too easy.
  
• PVP
  Cant say anything about the difficulty, since its more luck based. If you re lucky, your team will make it an instant win. If not, you got sandwiched.
  Sometimes I feel very limited in my actions and how to defend myself. Healers are almost impossible to take down alone.
  
• Crafting and Gathering
  Got both nerfed to the ground. Make it a bit harder again, please.
  
• Leveling
  Leveling is easy. But its boring and repetitive. Especially for DoW-classes, it takes much longer than for Gatherers/Crafters. I wish there were alternative ways.
  
• Buying a house
  Its random. Not easy, not hard. If my appartement would be bigger, I wont need a house. And I cant decorate it with my other characters : /
  
• Raids
  Its a bit a shame, that old raids were nerfed to the infinite. On the other hand, some raids are still fun though. Overall, its ok.
  
• Socializing (making friends)
  Its ok. No change needed.
  
• Special Events
  There are good. No change needed.

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Originally Posted by TTiscancer

The game has content for all ability levels. Do what you find fun and challenging and stop crying.

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What's wrong with requesting more difficult content?
I pretty much am permanently subbed to this game but even I find the majority of content is far too easy.