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Just having a very hard time getting a straight answer in game. I played to the middle point of Heavensward and quit before much of Alexander opened up. I'm interested in doing the normal raids and eventually Eden. How difficult are these and does the roulette have a decent success rate?
I did ARR EX modes and up to 2nd Coil turn 3 so I know I could handle these mechanics but do you need discord between the Tanks. Or are people pretty good at knowing what they're doing?
The Normal Raids are nothing like Coil when it comes to difficulty - they're much, much easier and even DF-groups will clear them easly in 95% of the cases.
After people complained that they werent able to experience the Coil-story since it was locked behind the most difficult content in the game at that time, they changed their approach with HW: We got two versions of the raids - the "normal mode" (NM) that is included in the roulette you mentioned and the Savage version.
The NM is close to your usual MSQ-primal - it has mechanics, you can fail, but the required communication is minimal, people dont even really need to know what they're doing in the first place.
Savage is close to (original) Coil difficulty - everyone needs to know mechanics, you're wise to use some voice-chat, buffs, food... pretty much the raiding experience for statics now.
Bottomline: Go ahead and do those NM! Queuetimes for the old ones might be a bit slow and the exp-payout of that roulette isnt all that great, but some of the fights are pretty fun! Going in blind shouldnt be a problem either, they're no mechanics that would be an instant fail. I cant recall any tank-sawps or the like in the NM-versions right now either.
Just a little bit of a warning: People outgear this content so much by now that some fights are a real joke and over before you got a chance to properly enjoy the music!
Normal raids are basically slightly more complex trials. They are the kind of thing you can very feasibly clear on your first or second trial
They only put relatively easy things into roulettes. Coil isn't even included.
Thanks for the feedback definitely will have to start knocking these out. :-)