High End Content

Honestly speaking this game is for casual players. Everyone can clear everything even with random groups. Killing a primal ex after 10 trys with mediocre gear is a joke. This cant be called end game. Thats where the long therm motivation fails. Killing everything on the 1st or 2nd day and getting all bis gear the week after is boring and unsatisfying. Thats why people leave until you release new content which is cleared after a few days again. There should be content for everyone to set a longtherm motivation.

A couple of ideas which improve the game by a ton.

1) aether shard: lets you enter expert dungeons with increased difficulty after clear with weekly reward the more aether you have collected. The higher the difficulty mastered the better the droprate. Rewards could be a pool of: mounts, materia, crazy transmog gear etc.

2) a third difficulty for: primal ex and savage mode.

3) Set gear bonuses from raidbosses.

This is one thing I see them trying to improve in stormblood. The final trial of the game isn't faceroll, and while the primals are easy, I can see a difficulty curve starting to form. We have been told that savage will be on par with creator savage, and after that we get the super savage instance, I also expect 4.1s primal (probably final trial ex) to be much harder than current primals too.

Edit: it should be noted that Lakshmi and Susano are likely easy so that most people could get the ilvl for omega in time for their releases

There's the super savage fight to look forward to. Yoshi said no complaining if it is hard.

Thats good news. Ty

Sounds you're an elitist.

I get it, you want harder content and that's fine.

But players are dedicated and have dedicated groups who will play 15 hours a day and run the exact same content constantly to be the first to get end game gear. if it isn't you who gets the full i320 gear in 2 days its someone else, if it isn't that person its their friend. Unless you put a time limit on everyone's log in to physically stop players someone will always try be the first to get the best gear straight away.

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Originally Posted by Lunafreya

There's the super savage fight to look forward to. Yoshi said no complaining if it is hard.

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and before they do another shit designed fight with artificial difficulty like A4S...

SE has said time and again that this game is geared towards casuals. Why anyone expects anything more is baffling.

casual mm, no. i would say a mix between casual and hardcore. casual-core. a casual will never even see coil or get atma gear, let alone they will most likely be running from duty finder.