What are your unrealistic expectations for the upcoming Combat Live Letter?

My wish for the game in general: Increase the server tick rate to make the AoE animations line up with damage snapshots. We had servers that updated 1000 times a second in CS 1.6 20 years ago with 32 players, I'm sure SE can pull it off it with 8 players with today's vastly faster computers.

My wish for my main: New LB3 animation, maybe something that looks like a bigger Passage of Arms. Job is fine otherwise.

It would be nice to hear about some low level reworks so key abilities like AoE are available much earlier for some classes. Hopefully this will be part of what happens in the DRG rework.

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Originally Posted by Moqi

Is Extreme not midcore already? How many levels can there be.

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I'd consider extremes to be midcore, even if I find the more recent phenomenon of body-check mechanics that bled over from savage into for example Voidcast Dais EX more annoying than anything. I already have to deal with 1 guy potentially resetting all progress in savage, I don't need it in extremes that I'm expected to farm like 50+ times.

The problem is with the onboarding process, the lack of a gradual difficulty curve. Because everything below extreme is so ridiculously easy that even extremes are a significant jump.

New players go from baby's first MMO content (MSQ, dungeons, treasure maps, hunts, alliance and normal raids), where you can faceroll to the finish line, straight into a brick wall that now suddenly expects precise positioning, individual responsibilities and the ability to keep up decent dps while you deal with mechanics in comparatively short timeframes.

I think there is a discrepancy between “midcore content in a generic MMO” and “midcore content in 14” entirely driven by how easy 14’s casual content is

If you put most extremes into WOW the WOW playerbase would characterise them as midcore however since 14’s casual content is so damn easy there is still a large enough gulf between the hardest casual content and extremes that it feels like it pushes extremes higher than they actually are

Either casual content needs to be made harder (which is what normal raids and alliance raids used to be as they were optional) or there needs to be another tier added in between like I explained above, you can argue what I explained isn’t really midcore by “generic MMO” standards but that gulf needs to be filled in 14

Brutal” dungeons should live up to their name a little better. It could represent an interesting transition between extreme and normal.

Otherwise:
- Enhance the dps cycle for healers, implement synergy between heal and dps.
- Raise limitation.
- Eliminate tank stance
- (Irrealistic) Shorter GCDs.
- Possibility of making visual effects less invasive. Currently the game sometimes looks like a pinball table, and I'd love to have a way of making the effects more transparent (without them being invisible).

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Originally Posted by Supersnow845

I think there is a discrepancy between “midcore content in a generic MMO” and “midcore content in 14” entirely driven by how easy 14’s casual content is

If you put most extremes into WOW the WOW playerbase would characterise them as midcore however since 14’s casual content is so damn easy there is still a large enough gulf between the hardest casual content and extremes that it feels like it pushes extremes higher than they actually are.

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Well, what is it? In a previous post, you said EX are light savage. Now you're saying EX content is higher than they actually are.

One thing I think we can agree on is that casual content is too easy. Myths of the Realm were a complete joke, and Pandemonium was nothing like the Omega or Eden raids in terms of difficulty. Encounters like Deltascape v4.0, Alphascape V3.0, Eden's Gate: Sepulture, and Eden's Verse: Iconoclasm along with Alliance raids being around the level of Ivalice and NieR raids should be the standard. I actually enjoy doing these raids far more than current content despite the power creep present in them because they have mechanics where if you don't do them correctly, the power creep isn't going to save you.

The problem isn't that EX is too difficult to be considered midcore. The issue is casual content does not challenge players like it should. It's faceroll, and that's a big problem.

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Originally Posted by Absurdity

I'd consider extremes to be midcore, even if I find the more recent phenomenon of body-check mechanics that bled over from savage into for example Voidcast Dais EX more annoying than anything. I already have to deal with 1 guy potentially resetting all progress in savage, I don't need it in extremes that I'm expected to farm like 50+ times.

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This is a good point, I'd rather body check mechanics be left to Savage and up too. Midcore to me is "a competent player who watches a guide can farm it in PF with randos and little communication/planning" level difficulty.

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The problem is with the onboarding process, the lack of a gradual difficulty curve. Because everything below extreme is so ridiculously easy that even extremes are a significant jump.

New players go from baby's first MMO content (MSQ, dungeons, treasure maps, hunts, alliance and normal raids), where you can faceroll to the finish line, straight into a brick wall that now suddenly expects precise positioning, individual responsibilities and the ability to keep up decent dps while you deal with mechanics in comparatively short timeframes.

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This is the niche that optional but "normal" content should fill ("Hard Mode" endgame dungeons, normal raids, alliance raids, trial series sidequests, role quests) but they've neutered and cut so much content.

Red mage gets a real aoe finisher, and more ways to be mobile, mobs die so fast they sometimes get caught in non-casting loop, smn can at least swap to a faster carbuncle.

smn gets actual attacks in content below lvl 90, i actually like the job but it blows seeing different speeds of what is it? tridisaster? in almost everything under max level content.

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Originally Posted by Gemina

Well, what is it? In a previous post, you said EX are light savage. Now you're saying EX content is higher than they actually are.

One thing I think we can agree on is that casual content is too easy. Myths of the Realm were a complete joke, and Pandemonium was nothing like the Omega or Eden raids in terms of difficulty. Encounters like Deltascape v4.0, Alphascape V3.0, Eden's Gate: Sepulture, and Eden's Verse: Iconoclasm along with Alliance raids being around the level of Ivalice and NieR raids should be the standard. I actually enjoy doing these raids far more than current content despite the power creep present in them because they have mechanics where if you don't do them correctly, the power creep isn't going to save you.

The problem isn't that EX is too difficult to be considered midcore. The issue is casual content does not challenge players like it should. It's faceroll, and that's a big problem.

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You misunderstand (edit correction I wrote my post badly my bad)

I meant that the 14 community specifically makes them out to be harder than they are because our casual content is so easy

Extremes are midcore to me, but the general community is more debatable

The way the 14 community defines midcore would probably lean more towards “difficult casual”, in this way the current extreme design leans too far towards savage light to be good bridging content

I also still think there is room between red girl and extremes

1. All healers will have more depth in their DPS rotations.
2. We are going to tone down warrior self-sustain and party-wide mitigation. We did not intend to over buff them. Our mistake.
3. We will bring back pet mechanics to SMN. We did not realize that the rework cured people's insomnia