The difficulty of Normal Content in this game needs to increase.

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Originally Posted by caffe_macchiato

And this is why FFXIV will remain as-is, probably will get worse, and OP will likely just get more and more frustrated. More people will simply defend whatever they get because FFXIV is beyond criticism. Raiders are a small minority that’s ever-shrinking thanks to the drought. The post-Endwalker decline of our gameplay-centric MMO has been met with applause and acclaim. You might not find a problem with this, and that’s okay! Raiders will find a better game to play, and you’ll still be able to pay $13 a month for…whatever this is. Rest assured, business will continue as usual, for better or for worse.

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Most people simply just disagree with the criticism being made, furthermore, a person expressing a disagreement with your criticism does not preclude nor negate their own criticisms of the game. e.g., I think the current content difficulty is OK as it is. This statement does not preclude me from thinking that they need another tier, nor does it preclude me from thinking that the game has an issue with replayability.

A straight out increase in difficult doesn't necessarily solve the outlined problems and in terms of the wider scope of the game, I would argue it just creates more problems.

A suggestion that players defend whatever they get because they disagree with your outlined criticism is beyond a reductive method of thinking.

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And this is why FFXIV will remain as-is, probably will get worse, and OP will likely just get more and more frustrated. More people will simply defend whatever they get because FFXIV is beyond criticism. Raiders are a small minority that’s ever-shrinking thanks to the drought. The post-Endwalker decline of our gameplay-centric MMO has been met with applause and acclaim. You might not find a problem with this, and that’s okay! Raiders will find a better game to play, and you’ll still be able to pay $13 a month for…whatever this is. Rest assured, business will continue as usual, for better or for worse.

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Honestly? Macchiato's right.

The game does release stuff for raiders who usually just clear the thing and are done with it apart from weekly reclears.
Casual content is often pretty boring and reliant on awkward gameplay mechanics (Island Sanctuary having a jank gathering system, Blue Mage having little application, Eureka/Bozja being FATE zones, Variant Dungeons having no decent incentive to be ran past the one reward...).
And even minigames are pretty niche, such as Chocobo Racing or Triple Triad. Nothing that has a larger application outside the Gold Saucer.

Meanwhile housing is pretty niche, mostly just there for decoration. And roleplaying aspects are rather limited. And in an MMO, the roleplaying scene is usually a major component for some people. Interaction with the lore and the game should be embraced... yet there's really not much outside of the chat, glamours and some emotes that provides further interactivity.

Whenever we need some form of "content" that keeps people engaged, it almost always has to be something to be worked toward rather than a feature. And that "something" is content that needs a lot of time to be developped. Meaning we have to wait for months for something new.

The only feature we do have that goes along more or less what I'm thinking? Bard Performance. That's all. And there's a lot we can do in a similar vein.

Not participating in the harder stuff of the game and enjoying oneself at clubs isn't inherently a bad thing. But other MMOs do at least complement the rest of this content with features, on top of also having a relatively robust raiding scene. Ours doesn't have that, it litters the game with side-content you need to work for rather than appreciate the stuff in the game itself, while raiding is intermittent.

Then again I myself raid very little, so what do I know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm just a nutjob who reeeally wanted AST to have an actual divination feature, just as much as how Bards can play instruments. We know the Deck of Sixty exists. I'd just rather not have to make it from scratch on my own to use for my friends when I could actually show them what I'm drawing.

I do think that the difficulty should be slightly increased, but I'd say more towards late-ARR and HW and only if the game teaches players better. The first boss of Dead Ends, for example, has a high body count less because the fight itself is hard, and more because a lot of first-timer healers never truly needed to esuna stuff before.

I'm also of the opinion that content being too easy also removes some of the MSQ's luster. Thordan's fight makes base HW's ending feel flaccid, and the Cape Westwind trial/ the old MSQ roulette (all of them now defuct, thank god) REALLY didn't do ARR's finale any favors. Here's hoping Square gives the same love to Thordan as they gave to Rhitahtyn

Everytime harder content is added outside of savage it is avoided at all costs, even by raiders. Orbonne was and even with the echo they added it's avoided in the roulette, and the criterion dungeons are a ghost town. So why would they increase difficulty of content all of the players have to do when the optional things are never run.

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Push people out of their comfort zone, Slowly increase the difficulty of content as the expansions go on.

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I remember when WoW tried this at the start of Cataclysm with the hopes that players would rise to the occasion, but instead they just threw tantrums until everything got nerfed into the ground again.

Unfortunately the problem here isn't the devs, it's the players. People say they want more difficult normal content, then when it happens they complain until it gets nerfed like Orbonne.

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Everytime harder content is added outside of savage it is avoided at all costs, even by raiders. Orbonne was and even with the echo they added it's avoided in the roulette, and the criterion dungeons are a ghost town. So why would they increase difficulty of content all of the players have to do when the optional things are never run.

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It has nothing to do with what you say and everything to do with rewards and this is the reason SE's hands are tied.
Why would people want to bother running Orbonne in their daily roulette when CT gives the same rewards for half the time? When faced with the possibility players will often choose the path of least resistance.
Which is why SE can't significantly increase the difficulty of any content in DF or else people will just dodge or do they hardest to not unlock it.

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I don't entirely disagree with the point being made - But in oft' cases this point is often a precursor for "Develop more content lul" - I don't think the game has an issue related entirely to the content 'volume' as it were, just the incentive to replay said content, with many systems arguably being disconnected, when they could be meshed into one, or combined to create something more substantive. e.g., combining Eureka/Bozjan system with something such as Deep Dungeon, or conversely introducing the gathering and crafting concept of Island Sanctuary into Deep Dungeons, or just dungeons in general, to create something that entices players to interact with and explore their environment a little more, even if this concept is as simple as 'fish in the small river in Brayflox and obtain a key' - In this sense, incorporating dungeoneering into the players' experience.
[Edit: Substance equal to or greater than this above paragraph is scarce an opportunity because people are more concerned with whether people agree with them or not, and not really questioning why people disagree with an outlined criticism]


You can develop as many systems as you like, but if the underlying Philosophy is to just give players a 1-off experience, or a weekly experience to provide them with something irrationally streamlined, then no amount of content volume is going to scratch that itch. Hence why I find myself disagreeing with a lot of posts, and this is precisely why I also find myself seeing their reasoning as reductive. e.g., not disagreeing with the underlying point as such, just disagreeing entirely to the solution of the outlined problem - and when you have people posting garbage like "People will defend what they get" - It stifles a lot of productive debate that could come from the problem, in favour of something seemingly more 'chamberish' <- This point I don't necessarily see entirely applicable to this thread, but there are absolutely many threads where this is applicable.

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P8S P1 IS the ultimate part. Deaths are pretty much not allowed most of the time because it'll result in somebody else dying. Therein lies the ultimate part. P2 is really easy in comparison and definitely my favorite fight this tier, but getting there is such a horrible slog that it isn't funny. I've had nights where even with the normal static, getting past P1 is such a pain and draining effort (only get leg first, never arm...) with no mistakes allowed that it feels like you're beating your head against an ultimate.

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I think that is just normally savage final floor, not "Ultimate" level. Taking another 4th floor from this expansion, P4s phase 2 if someone died in a lot of spots the fight was basically a wash. Act 1 8 tower soaks, Act 2 Multiple Fire stacks that will kill people if not enough are in the stack. Act 3 has 2 sets of 4 towers that need to be soaked. Act 4 has towers + purple tethers that leave a magic vuln so you cant pop too soon (from death for instance), etc. etc. etc. P8s has similar pain points, but i've been apart of clears with multiple deaths in phase 1..

P8s is not ultimate level difficulty

I think it would be nice if more difficult content is added for those who want it for sure. I doubt I would play any harder raids or dungeons then I do now, but gameplay group challenge is not really why I am here. I do not think a increase normal difficulty would be wise though. I remember when WoW did that with Cata and it did not end well. Plus, difficulty is subjective. No matter how hard you made said content, there will be some who find it too ‘easy’ in the same way that not everyone thinks that content as it is now is a walk in the park. That said I would like to actually see more solo-hard challenges added, say a New Game+ Hard Mode which rewards you with cosmetic stuff. That I would enjoy!

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Most people simply just disagree with the criticism being made, furthermore, a person expressing a disagreement with your criticism does not preclude nor negate their own criticisms of the game. e.g., I think the current content difficulty is OK as it is. This statement does not preclude me from thinking that they need another tier, nor does it preclude me from thinking that the game has an issue with replayability.

A straight out increase in difficult doesn't necessarily solve the outlined problems and in terms of the wider scope of the game, I would argue it just creates more problems.

A suggestion that players defend whatever they get because they disagree with your outlined criticism is beyond a reductive method of thinking.

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Well said. Its a mistake I feel to paint the community in one way just because some people disagree with a subject or two. Outside of the trolls most people here are more complex in opinion then that. Just because you may still enjoy the game inspite of whatever flaws you hold, does not mean you are a mindless ‘simp’ for either FFXIV or Square.

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I think that is just normally savage final floor, not "Ultimate" level. Taking another 4th floor from this expansion, P4s phase 2 if someone died in a lot of spots the fight was basically a wash. Act 1 8 tower soaks, Act 2 Multiple Fire stacks that will kill people if not enough are in the stack. Act 3 has 2 sets of 4 towers that need to be soaked. Act 4 has towers + purple tethers that leave a magic vuln so you cant pop too soon (from death for instance), etc. etc. etc. P8s has similar pain points, but i've been apart of clears with multiple deaths in phase 1..

P8s is not ultimate level difficulty

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Both parts of P4S were easier than P8S's 1st phase. Die because you weren't in position before the stack/spread goes off within the first minute of the fight? Somebody is dying because the mechanic is going to jump to somebody else. Get knocked back into the wall before doggo earth pillars? Somebody is getting a double dose and dying. Get clipped by somebody else before your earth pillar goes off? You're dying, and somebody else is likely dying during the stomps. Die before everybody gets the debuffs for snakes? Party wipe. Don't stone/kill all the adds? Hit the wall, you got a 90% damage down. This keeps going on and on btw. There's too many failure mechanics, too many ways to where the run is not salvageable.

P4S P1 didn't have that many. Hell, P4S P2 didn't have that many. P8S P2 may have just as many, but it also feels much shorter. High Concept 1 starts just under 2 minutes in, ending about a minute later. You reach the walls faster, you get the problems dealt with faster. Phase 2 feels a lot more chill because of it.

How you dare to ask for current content to be harder? what about our anxiety issue? you have ultimates for that, leaves us in peace with our avenues and erp events.

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How you dare to ask for current content to be harder? what about our anxiety issue? you have ultimates for that, leaves us in peace with our avenues and erp events.

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Confused. Do you do anevues and erp events or are you upset normal content is too easy?


Cuz it doesn't look like you do the hard content so...
Why is it that seemingly the loudest people complaining about "game being too easy" don't actually engage in the more difficult content?

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How you dare to ask for current content to be harder? what about our anxiety issue? you have ultimates for that, leaves us in peace with our avenues and erp events.

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If people have an anxiety issue then seek out a therapist. I fail to see what that has to do with difficulty in a video game.

Slightly harder difficulty normal content will just become normal content when you've done it five times. *shrug*

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If people have an anxiety issue then seek out a therapist. I fail to see what that has to do with difficulty in a video game.

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To parrot off this, I myself have dangerously bad anxiety(like literally had massive chest pains when doing Savage back in Stormblood), and it didn't stop me from doing harder content. There is therapy or if that isn't your fancy, medication for such issue.

As for why I pushed myself to do Savage even though I knew it would bring me genuine pain? I like to live dangerously. (And also Omega is just a cool set of raids)

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It has nothing to do with what you say and everything to do with rewards and this is the reason SE's hands are tied.
Why would people want to bother running Orbonne in their daily roulette when CT gives the same rewards for half the time? When faced with the possibility players will often choose the path of least resistance.
Which is why SE can't significantly increase the difficulty of any content in DF or else people will just dodge or do they hardest to not unlock it.

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So you want the to increase the difficulty of everything because why? Are the rewards going to get better or are you wanting people to just work harder for what they are already getting?

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I don't entirely disagree with the point being made - But in oft' cases this point is often a precursor for "Develop more content lul" - I don't think the game has an issue related entirely to the content 'volume' as it were, just the incentive to replay said content, with many systems arguably being disconnected, when they could be meshed into one, or combined to create something more substantive. e.g., combining Eureka/Bozjan system with something such as Deep Dungeon, or conversely introducing the gathering and crafting concept of Island Sanctuary into Deep Dungeons, or just dungeons in general, to create something that entices players to interact with and explore their environment a little more, even if this concept is as simple as 'fish in the small river in Brayflox and obtain a key' - In this sense, incorporating dungeoneering into the players' experience.

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I understand and also agree. I'm on record for wanting Eureka/Bozja to have incorporated Treasure Maps, after all :p

As well as the whole "Deck of Sixty for AST pls" thing.

Overall, I don't think what we have is bad. I think what we have is often left unfinished, when it could kinda do well enough with ideas from other stuff we've been having as detached features.

I'm mostly thinking of the game as how FF12 did some of its sidequests. It being a solo-focused game will naturally also have a large focus on the gameplay elements. But to me, they've been incorporated into a major portion of what FF12 was about: exploration. You were rewarded for straying off the dictated path. You were rewarded with extra areas and sidequests if you decided to do more than what the game told you.
It's why I love the concept of Variant Dungeons. They just needed better rewards.

So to me, the problem with "volume" is less so "omg we have too much and it all sucks", but rather "We have a lot, which is good, but they're simplistic. We can do better with what we've got."
Hence why I mentioned how casual content is lacking. If you notice, I say "Eureka is a FATE-only area" = can do with more stuff in it. "BLU has no application past a challenge log and carnivale" = it has potential, expanding upon it would benefit it. As well as giving more features in the same vein as Bard Performance, which don't require combat gameplay mechanics or working toward a reward to be reaped. Simply features that allow players to have fun and experiment with without it becoming necessarily "outdated" after a while. It's not just volume, but how robust the content is.

Otherwise, one thing I enjoy? POTD. Deep Dives were the absolute bomb for me. Gameplay at those levels is just unenjoyable for me at the moment, otherwise I'd definitely keep doing it nowadays. Because I had to work for something, yes, but it had more than just the obvious grindy levels.

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So you want the to increase the difficulty of everything because why? Are the rewards going to get better or are you wanting people to just work harder for what they are already getting?

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Did you even read my post?
I never said anything about wanting to increase the difficulty of content, I just said that your argument that difficult content can't be popular is faulty.
Difficult content could be implemented if the rewards follow, but being part of the roulette system makes it really difficult for Square Enix.

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Did you even read my post?

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And it didn't explain at all why criterion, which is a deliberate attempt by them to provide more difficult content, is completely abandoned.

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So you want the to increase the difficulty of everything because why? Are the rewards going to get better or are you wanting people to just work harder for what they are already getting?

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...He only said "If Square increases the difficulty of something, people will try to take the easiest way out". Because it doesn't matter whether people are for or against it, Square knows that it's not so black and white.
He wasn't advocating for nor against anything...

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And it didn't explain at all why criterion, which is a deliberate attempt by them to provide more difficult content, is completely abandoned.

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He mentioned the rewards on the first sentence. Which is the reason most point to to explain why that's dead content.

The rest was reiterating why difficulty isn't the only factor, and why messing with difficulty isn't straightforward.

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And it didn't explain at all why criterion, which is a deliberate attempt by them to provide more difficult content, is completely abandoned.

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It's a well-known fact that the #1 complaint people have about Criterion is the lackluster reward structure. And I did mention it.

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And it didn't explain at all why criterion, which is a deliberate attempt by them to provide more difficult content, is completely abandoned.

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Criterion got abandoned because the rewards from it were terrible. People got their first clear (if even) and moved on to other things.

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Criterion got abandoned because the rewards from it were terrible. People got their first clear (if even) and moved on to other things.

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Sounds like people didn't want difficulty then, they just wanted the rewards. Which is pretty typical I've found. People want to brag about doing stuff. They don't care about the actual stuff. Just look at the recent issues about the new ultimate raid.

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Sounds like people didn't want difficulty then, they just wanted the rewards. Which is pretty typical I've found. People want to brag about doing stuff. They don't care about the actual stuff. Just look at the recent issues about the new ultimate raid.

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Not quite right. People don't want difficulty for nothing. People find fun in difficulty because of the achievement of topping the content. If there aren't any rewards for someone to come back, however, it will more than likely be a one and done or a very rare occurrence of a re-clear. The lack of rewards are an issue of replayability. If you actually did hard content in this game, you would know that after your first clear the content becomes much easier to tackle on re-clears (which removes difficulty) :)

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Sounds like people didn't want difficulty then, they just wanted the rewards. Which is pretty typical I've found. People want to brag about doing stuff. They don't care about the actual stuff. Just look at the recent issues about the new ultimate raid.

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Please, not this garbage take again.

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Sounds like people didn't want difficulty then, they just wanted the rewards. Which is pretty typical I've found. People want to brag about doing stuff. They don't care about the actual stuff. Just look at the recent issues about the new ultimate raid.

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People want a mix of both. If the rewards are terrible there is no incentive to do it more than once. Fights in this game are very static, so once you've done it once you've experienced everything there is to experience from that fight. If there's no reward incentive, there's no reason to do it a hundred more times as it's just the same content you already did. Why would someone do the same exact criterion dungeon more than a single time for the same exact experience? Even roulette dungeons have incentives in their tome rewards. If there wasn't a tomestone reward, no one would do daily duty roulettes either as they've already done those a hundred thousand times. People did the content, and it died once its main audience cleared it for the first time.

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If there aren't any rewards for someone to come back, however, it will more than likely be a one and done or a very rare occurrence of a re-clear.

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This exactly. There's a reason why Criterion died in a week while Savage is still being cleared in PF. (Whether it should take as long as it does to get things from Savage is a different argument but the point stands regardless)

Honestly, I'd have to agree with the OP. The difficulty on general content in the game is too easy. Half way to the of an Ex trail would be a good spot of difficulty.
The meta of running a dungeon pulling all available mobs and easily AoEing them down is rather boring. Having to CC mobs and actually use damage mitigation and support skills should be baseline gameplay requirements.

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Sounds like people didn't want difficulty then, they just wanted the rewards. Which is pretty typical I've found. People want to brag about doing stuff. They don't care about the actual stuff. Just look at the recent issues about the new ultimate raid.

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This is such a lazy argument. Difficulty alone can only carry content for so long. Once those players have cleared. What incentive to they have to go back? There's literally nothing for them because they've already overcome the challenge.

If we applied this same logic to casual content, you'd see the exact same result. In fact, let's like Euphrosyne. Except instead of glamour and weekly upgrades it rewarded nothing but materia. How long is that raid alive for? I can all but guarantee it'd be dead content within the first month. How do we know? Look at all the older 24 mans that aren't Crystal Tower. You hardly see them despite the glamour, minions and etc. If it weren't for Alliance Roulette, they'd be completely dead. Once upon a time, ARR raids were dead. As in it took hours to get LotA or WoD to pop. That's why it became apart of the Heavensward relic step and the introduced the Alliance Roulette. It's almost like nobody does content regularly without some sort of incentive.

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This is such a lazy argument. Difficulty alone can only carry content for so long. Once those players have cleared. What incentive to they have to go back? There's literally nothing for them because they've already overcome the challenge.

If we applied this same logic to casual content, you'd see the exact same result. In fact, let's like Euphrosyne. Except instead of glamour and weekly upgrades it rewarded nothing but materia. How long is that raid alive for? I can all but guarantee it'd be dead content within the first month. How do we know? Look at all the older 24 mans that aren't Crystal Tower. You hardly see them despite the glamour, minions and etc. If it weren't for Alliance Roulette, they'd be completely dead. Once upon a time, ARR raids were dead. As in it took hours to get LotA or WoD to pop. That's why it became apart of the Heavensward relic step and the introduced the Alliance Roulette. It's almost like nobody does content regularly without some sort of incentive.

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Or just take a look at Criterion/Criterion Savage. That content died almost the day it came out because of the lack of rewards.

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Honestly, I'd have to agree with the OP. The difficulty on general content in the game is too easy. Half way to the of an Ex trail would be a good spot of difficulty.
The meta of running a dungeon pulling all available mobs and easily AoEing them down is rather boring. Having to CC mobs and actually use damage mitigation and support skills should be baseline gameplay requirements.

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You're such a lier, are you telling me you DONT use your damage mitigations for mobs? Wow, looks like we found the terrible tank here guys.

CC I can agree, we only really have Holy for White Mage and even then its not that interesting. But I also dont know how you can do crowd control interesting in a game like this anyway so whatever.

Easy fix: Limit combat resurrections. Give them a considerable cooldown so you can't just zombie your way through fights. There now people are actually punished for dying even if the content doesn't have an enrage.

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Easy fix: Limit combat resurrections. Give them a considerable cooldown so you can't just zombie your way through fights. There now people are actually punished for dying even if the content doesn't have an enrage.

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And too the rest of the party are now punished by having to pick up the slack being down a member. Would only serve to make the party detest that downed player which due to the absurd restrictions in the ToS; not allowed.

I agree it should be increased. Right now normal mode feels way too easy (especially when sync'ed down). A lot of the 24 mans are a snore fest unless you get the Nier raid/current, but again, this is most likely a sync thing. All the trials are also a snore fest when synced down. It's like theres no harm in them

They could easily toggle on an item level sync for content(why the heck is the Crystal Tower saga item level sync basically double the item level minimal? It's wild!).

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I agree it should be increased. Right now normal mode feels way too easy (especially when sync'ed down). A lot of the 24 mans are a snore fest unless you get the Nier raid/current, but again, this is most likely a sync thing. All the trials are also a snore fest when synced down. It's like theres no harm in them

They could easily toggle on an item level sync for content(why the heck is the Crystal Tower saga item level sync basically double the item level minimal? It's wild!).

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If you have a full party, you can already choose min ilvl when queueing. You can make a pf to get a full 24 people if you want to do min ilvl alliance runs.

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I agree it should be increased. Right now normal mode feels way too easy (especially when sync'ed down). A lot of the 24 mans are a snore fest unless you get the Nier raid/current, but again, this is most likely a sync thing. All the trials are also a snore fest when synced down. It's like theres no harm in them

They could easily toggle on an item level sync for content(why the heck is the Crystal Tower saga item level sync basically double the item level minimal? It's wild!).

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Some normal modes are annoying e5n for example.



It's not necessarily a "fights are too easy" issue, but a "outgearing mechanics" issue for a lot of fights.



Make alliance raids forced at patch relevant ilvl would resolve some of those issues.

Unfortuntely, once you learn how to doany of the content, it becomes a snooze fest. It doesn't matter how hard it was to learn, or how long it takes to kill, or how many mechanics it does. As soon as you understand the fight and can do it confidentally, it becomes boring. That's just a fact. There's nothing Square can do to make the content fun or hard when you can already beat it. If they lower min ilvl to conent, chances are you're just going to be bored for longer. There's a reason a lot of people don't enjoy doing max level alliance raids. They're just as boring as any other fight you know how to do, but they take so much longer.

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Unfortuntely, once you learn how to doany of the content, it becomes a snooze fest. It doesn't matter how hard it was to learn, or how long it takes to kill, or how many mechanics it does. As soon as you understand the fight and can do it confidentally, it becomes boring. That's just a fact. There's nothing Square can do to make the content fun or hard when you can already beat it. If they lower min ilvl to conent, chances are you're just going to be bored for longer. There's a reason a lot of people don't enjoy doing max level alliance raids. They're just as boring as any other fight you know how to do, but they take so much longer.

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Exactly anything you gonna do so many times like dungeon/Alliance is going to get boring at some point.

You either have a braindead farm or a engaging/challenging content to do here and there.

Wildstar tried to appeal to the "hardcore" now it has shutdown.

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Some normal modes are annoying e5n for example.



It's not necessarily a "fights are too easy" issue, but a "outgearing mechanics" issue for a lot of fights.



Make alliance raids forced at patch relevant ilvl would resolve some of those issues.

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I feel like e5n and e7n were honestly a good set for difficulty to be fair.

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If you have a full party, you can already choose min ilvl when queueing. You can make a pf to get a full 24 people if you want to do min ilvl alliance runs.

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Never said I wanted to do min ilvl, I said the item level scaling is a tad too high. If its i50 to enter, why does it go all the way up to like i100+? If it's i50 to get it, it should cap at the item level *that drops in the raid* as being the highest it'll sync down to.

Such as ilvl 80 for LOTA and so on, would be what it syncs people down to who are over that.

Idk why we need healer in casual type content, you will be totally fine without them nowadays. It wasn't like that in the past. They could at least make mobs hit harder? Like 100% harder? And maybe allow cc effects to be useful in dungeons, so it is actually a more interesting encounter than just 'mitigation and dmg output' happening.