A Challenge Reborn

Heyy,
since this is a discussion forum in general, I wanted to ask people all over Eorzea including the hosts, SE, what you think of the simplifications of some jobs and roles, the game itself and the recent changes over the years of playing.

Talking about myself, I am visiting Eorzea from time to time, beginning with the beta of ARR. I have seen so many changes, and people before the calamity have seen even more of them. There were changes we liked and loved, but were there changes we totally disliked?

Talking about my opinion, Eorzea became more accessible for new travellers and that is great! We have more Warriors than ever before and the world takes you to a place, were you can play and listen to more than thousands of stories. We have fought for so many years against villains we loved and hated.
But I sometimes miss so badly the challenge in some things. As I told you, I played 2.0 and I loved so many challenging things about it. I know the cross-class changes are a good thing, in terms of the accessibility and the changes to skills and roles are awesome too, but isn't it sometimes too easy? Don't you wish sometimes an incredible feeling besides leveling, a milestone, you reached for yourself, some kind of thing that makes you feel like the greatest Eorzean in the world? The Ishgardian Rebuilding Project, gives you that kind of feeling, the raid-content (including UwU etc.) maybe too, but is there something else that makes you feel the challenge? I know there is the possibility of doing PotD and HoH solo, but is there more?

I don't just want to talk about my opinion here, I want to ask and invite everyone to join me here. I am not disliking the game, I am just worried that the game could be "too simple" or "too easy" and the challenge that we starve for when we play a game, the milestone we want to see, could vanish someday. Many games and many worlds tried to change for the better, but looking at Guild Wars, where people complain about "too easy raids and underwhelming content" (what we by the way will never have, because the story is more than overwhelming), and looking at WoW where people numbers decrease because of lacks from so many sides, I just fear that this could happen to us someday.
That is the reason why I want to talk to you, ask you about what you think.

Thank you for reading and I hope you can teach me better.

Hmm.... Honestly, after 6 or 7 years of playing, the average dungeon and trial does feel easier than ARR and HW did, but how much is that due to the game getting simpler, or does it only feel that way after many years playing, I actually got a little gud?

I still find ex quite challenging, and I am still too nervous to do much savage, so personally I still think the game is hard enough. And when it’s not, maybe I’ll finally pluck up courage and give savage a shot.

As for classes getting simplified, maybe it’s a good thing, this is the first expansion that I am actually trying to get everything to max level. I will say that healers at least (since that is what I played) are more complex now than in ARR at least. Maybe not more than HW or SB, though. Oof, it’s been too long to remember what the classes were like, tbh.

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Originally Posted by NonaLaggia

I don't just want to talk about my opinion here, I want to ask and invite everyone to join me here. I am not disliking the game, I am just worried that the game could be "too simple" or "too easy" and the challenge that we starve for when we play a game, the milestone we want to see, could vanish someday.

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I've brought this up before too and learned that most players don't seem to have milestones or actually want to be challenged. The general consensus has been that players just want to relax after a long day at work or such and that accomplishments, prestige or achieving anything special are generally looked down upon as wanting to "show off" or exclude others.

It's a little sad, since having things to accomplish and goals to strive for is what keeps gaming interesting for me personally, but it is what it is and I've come to accept it. If others are happy it's not fair to demand the game caters to my preferences.

I agree, I've gotten a lot better at some jobs that I was horrible at or avoided altogether and that feeling I had of admiration towards the players who mastered it before has gone because I don't see the difficulty in mastering those jobs anymore.
The jobs that I thought were insanely cool because they were hard to master are now easy to pick up.

I don't mind having some easier jobs in each role for people who aren't looking for a challenge but you can't just make everything easy because the people who aren't good at them aren't! I wanted to work on getting good at them!

For example: I used to think sch players were incredibly skilled and always looked up to them, but I've played scholar last tier as a main and it was.. easy? That was kinda disappointing.

And before people tell me astrologian has challenging gameplay, I used to main it in hw/sb and it certainly does not anymore. I also hate the removal of royal road and time spells.

I also used to love the cross class system, I know people had set ones you "had" to bring into raids and stuff but it made you have to go and try other jobs to get skill and see if other jobs are better suited to you. And it was fun to put random skills on classes to see what worked. It gave meaning to us being able to level every job.

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Originally Posted by Liam_Harper

I've brought this up before too and learned that most players don't seem to have milestones or actually want to be challenged. The general consensus has been that players just want to relax after a long day at work or such and that accomplishments, prestige or achieving anything special are generally looked down upon as wanting to "show off" or exclude others.

It's a little sad, since having things to accomplish and goals to strive for is what keeps gaming interesting for me personally, but it is what it is and I've come to accept it. If others are happy it's not fair to demand the game caters to my preferences.

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Hit the nail on the head with your last statement. Everyone has different goals not everyone gets accomplishment out of completing challenging content. But that does not mean that challenging content should be removed. This is FF14 not a game like EQ p99 where simple leveling is a grind fest and most of the time requires a group. Stepping out side a city in P99 is like stepping out of the first major town in xenoblade 2, dont have to go far to find something that will one shot you.

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Originally Posted by Liam_Harper

I've brought this up before too and learned that most players don't seem to have milestones or actually want to be challenged. The general consensus has been that players just want to relax after a long day at work or such and that accomplishments, prestige or achieving anything special are generally looked down upon as wanting to "show off" or exclude others.

It's a little sad, since having things to accomplish and goals to strive for is what keeps gaming interesting for me personally, but it is what it is and I've come to accept it. If others are happy it's not fair to demand the game caters to my preferences.

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Different players want different things sometimes they even change their minds. :D

That doesn't mean you shouldn't voice what you want. It just means you should look for players who share the same wants as you.

The thing is, especially when listening to these forums, the most important player is the casual. He doesnt know the meta, often uses half or less of his skills, uses dungeon drops and a mixture of random white loot bought off the MB, doesnt talk or chat except in voicechat to his equally casual friends, and is generally unable to read patch notes, watch youtube videos or any guides, and doesnt like to die or fail at anything, otherwise they will quickly drop their subscription.
This playerbase, however, absolutes hates (and will drop sub) when there are parts of the game inaccessible to that playstyle, especially if they contain rewards like Mounts, skins or better statted items.
So, adding things like more challenging content with appropriate rewards supposedly leads to this mass exodus of silent casual players, who cannot be asked to learn or do anything, but are always perfectly up to date on what is NOT made for them.
I am a savage raider, play 2 times a week. This makes me insanely hardcore, supposedly. I dont mind 85% of the game catering to casuals, heck, I enjoy the storyline, some PvP, the gold saucer and the occasional dungeon myself.
But it seems that if the game would actually cater 15% of its content towards the 15-20% of the playerbase that completes more challenging content than normal mode raids, for some reason, that angers the casual players sooooooo much they will all run away, taking their money elsewhere.

This is basically the situation: Adding anything not catering to casuals is seen as a dire insult, and attack, on the most wholesome of playstyles, and may not be done. Having 4 Savage fights every HALF YEAR is already pushing it.

Oh wow I did not expect so many comments in that short amount of time.

First of all, I am really thankful for your honesty and that you took some valuable time of yours to post your thoughts and opinion. I read all of them and I will continue reading every single comment in the future.

I agree with every single one of you. There have been always two sides of people in Eorzea, the ones who just enjoy the company of Eorzean and Warriors, on the other hand the ones who strive for competition.

I have to admit, my examples for a "challenging" Eorzea, were oriented unfortunately only on the second half of Eorzea I just mentioned and I have to greatly apologize for that. Of course I meant to involve as many groups of people as possible.
Also I have to admit, that it is always hard to build a world, that can be enjoyed by everyone, because there always will be some kind of disagreement.

But, let me try again.

You have told me, that there are Warriors out there, who like to play the game, because they just want to enjoy their time off from work. Who just want to enjoy the company of friends or family - or just wish to visit the world, to enjoy like it exists , to read stories of the beloved of this world, to fight villains in their own means. We know, that the people of Eorzea, all over the world have goals and milestone for their own. Not everyone has to have a thurst for reaching the biggest milestone that can be achieved, but even the smallest one can be as important as the greatest. Even if it just means to enjoy evenings, calming down from a busy day and to relax.

With the possibility of housing and relaxing events, like treasure maps (of course there is much more that can be added here), the gold saucer and more than I can list here, this kind of relaxation mentioned before, can be reached. But even these people, who may enjoyed the game for more than years, couldn't they just lose interest, if there is nothing easy on blink but challenging if practiced? Does it have to be a Raid, that sounds hard in the ears of people, that scares away everyone who just wants to enjoy?

I just remember the riddle quest from ARR, where you had to think where the next location could be, where the community teamed up to solve the mystery behind it, wasn't this kinda fun? Didn't you enjoy it? Of course people who just wanted it completed were almost giving up, looking up for the solution of every step, but isn't that kind of thing, that we enjoyed the most? The community solving a challenge, a common goal we can pursue? Like I mentioned before, that kind of goal, of milestone can be achieved right now with the Ishgardian Project, but is there more?

And yes the previous content we had, may it be 2.0 or content until the world beyond, feels easier. An example here is the Crystal Tower for itself. I know that people who visit the world more than months and years, maybe do not wish to queue for something taking more than 40 mins of their lives. But people who have not had that chance, to enjoy that content at the fullest, why should this be taken from them? It is not about "suffering the same pain", it is more about content people want and wish to enjoy.
I convinced a friend of mine, to visit Eorzea with me. It is wonderful to hear his enjoyment of every single dungeon, alliance raid and trial we clear. But he always asks me, if someday he could do this kind of content with a group that is not rushing through this kind of content. Where he can enjoy the content at its fullest. When we did Crystal Tower together, he was confused what he should do, he lost the group more than often out of sight and he tried to understand what was happening.

This should be it for now. I am thankful that you took the time to read.

I invite, again, everyone to join this discussion, to share your opinion and thoughts.
Teach me better if I am wrong. I cannot wait for your comments.

Thank you.

I won't beat around the bush. I barely progressed beyond SB because everyone I knew quit at the simplification. Times have changed and like some of you I understand the hardcore are no longer cared about. Devs from ESO across to this game, stress on taking breaks and not taking the game seriously. From a business point sure, that isn't going to change. But is it fun? Is there a sense of achievement from class/job play or general progression? Lol no. On that level the game has been rendered quite pointless to those of us who preferred a little more meat, than calling a 3 button spam fest 'complex'. Its all well and good a vast majority of people enjoying nothing but a relax. But if any of my other real life hobbies from music, across to side study of other more written disciplines were that empty of purpose - I wouldn't bother. Not even during my time off. This for me really does capture the mentality of the modern self gratifying layabout. And no. I was able to maintain a difficult career whilst enjoying deeper gameplay. I feel as if many are out of key on just how challenging things in life are. There is a difference between casual enough for entry - and 90% mindnumbing. The Japanese forums and complaints show that I am not alone on that front either. But we can but wait and see. I'm not so much looking for a debate. Things are over and done with now. Just have to see what feedback results in, especially for abominations like my friends Scholar (which I started to level to see just how damn boring he said its become), when they get around to the next release.

Well honestly its the reason I don't play Red Mage much anymore.

Granted Red Mage procs do throw a of Chaos into the job that make it unpredictable...but the reality is, outside of Alliance Raids, Open World Content and Dungeons... you never get to use a lot of the abilities in content like 8 mans. (Healing, Raise, AoEs). I like being able to play the full job's abilities and fully utilize its capabilities. But SE wants to force everyone into 8 man raids where it becomes the most boring thing to play because you only use a tiny portion of the job.

Conversely, I do enjoy playing SMN because it is that intricate and complicated, and in reality "busy" even on Single Target rotations. I STILL prefer content where I am using ALL of the abilities of the job the same way with RDM because SMN has a LOT of AoEs as well... but no matter what the content, SMN's intricacy and wide range of abilities usually come into play at some point (like... 3 different Pets that have 3 different specialties, Single Target, AoE, Damage Mitigation)

Its why I prefer SMN to RDM in High Content. Its way more complicated with a LOT more Buttons and a LOT of multitasking and a Lot more micromanagemant, but it way better than just using 3 buttons every combat.

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Originally Posted by Niyuka

The thing is, especially when listening to these forums, the most important player is the casual. He doesnt know the meta, often uses half or less of his skills, uses dungeon drops and a mixture of random white loot bought off the MB, doesnt talk or chat except in voicechat to his equally casual friends, and is generally unable to read patch notes, watch youtube videos or any guides, and doesnt like to die or fail at anything, otherwise they will quickly drop their subscription.
This playerbase, however, absolutes hates (and will drop sub) when there are parts of the game inaccessible to that playstyle, especially if they contain rewards like Mounts, skins or better statted items.
So, adding things like more challenging content with appropriate rewards supposedly leads to this mass exodus of silent casual players, who cannot be asked to learn or do anything, but are always perfectly up to date on what is NOT made for them.
I am a savage raider, play 2 times a week. This makes me insanely hardcore, supposedly. I dont mind 85% of the game catering to casuals, heck, I enjoy the storyline, some PvP, the gold saucer and the occasional dungeon myself.
But it seems that if the game would actually cater 15% of its content towards the 15-20% of the playerbase that completes more challenging content than normal mode raids, for some reason, that angers the casual players sooooooo much they will all run away, taking their money elsewhere.

This is basically the situation: Adding anything not catering to casuals is seen as a dire insult, and attack, on the most wholesome of playstyles, and may not be done. Having 4 Savage fights every HALF YEAR is already pushing it.

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The idea of what is hardcore and causal varies from person to person and game to game. I started back into ARR and considered this game semi hardcore at best has it hit a middle ground between what I feel is causal and what is hardcore.

What I finally miss the most is the discovery feeling from the beginning.

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Originally Posted by Niyuka

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We are both in the game in ARR since the Beta. I'm a bit surprised by your words. Coil raiding scene had rather a good reputation among players, even among casuals. The problem were not the casuals assumed as casual but a little bunch of pseudo-pgm who were even more entitled they were PLed by their raiders mates but still were despising non-raiders. There have been a lot of drama in statics because of that.

You probably remember that a lot of Coil raiders were trying hard at least three evening a week when it was not even more. You know what : I've seen a lot of them leaving the game already just after COIL13 down and before CT3 release. For a part, they were unable to stand the pseudo-pgms but, also, the real life does matter and they could not keep this raiding pace undefinitly (three hours, from 20/21h to 23/00h, three evenings a week, it is good for students, people who work realize fast they will hardly keep this pace if they want to do their IRL job properly, and if they have children, they have good reasons to be busy too).

There are still players who are starving for challenge but some people from Coil don't really enjoy to run this kind of pace again. Life changes and their pace of life too. Some of them will not just leave the game but will stop "hardcore" content.

Now, the question of the difficulty. The problem is the same in every MMO : old content lead to PL new players, we want it or not, because of overgear. They cannot really learn their job. Finally Trust and PVP are the best way to learn to play a job properly (and soloing old content, increasing difficulty step by step) but it is really time consuming, as the hardcore (or High-End) needs. Some players just don't have this kind of availability.

thank you much everyone for saying how I feel about FFXIV, it has become too casual and too easy, which isn't bad for people who have busy jobs, family, ECT but there's notthing anything else FFXIV offers you that is a challenge except Savage content and extreme trials. the Dungons are so boring, uninspiring and it's a Dance dance revolution following by spamming the same buttons over and over again, boss fights are, as someone have said," Simon Says Dance Dance Shake Your Booty- scripted move here and move there." the jobs are a joke and feel very similar to each other, for example I love how different Astrologian was especially the card system where it gave you different buffs, and you had all these options to manage buffs, make them stronger, extend the time duration on the card effect, ect. it was the most fun I had in XIV and now it loss all it's flavor and feels very similar to the other healers now, even SCH isn't the same anymore and it was known for being a DPS healer, it was its "own thing" and people seem to love it's playstyle and now what it is? homogenize like the other healers now that functions the same, no uniqueness that makes it stand out.

I'm rambling but now I'm playing FFXI and I'm going to copy paste my response from a reddit thread

So I started playing XI for about a year on and off and now im playing full time and not subbing to XIV anytime soon. As someone who been playing XIV since 2.5 and who started in xiv, FFXI is a fresh of air. I'm loving the journey the game is taking me because you can really feel it even though you're mostly playing with Trust, the adventure is still there. roaming around the dangerous world of Vanadiel, exploring the vast open duegons that are actually duegon, jobs feel like Final fantasy jobs and not a carbon copy of each other like XIV, I'm loving it and having so much as an adventurer than my time in Ezorea. everyone been very helpful and I met sone wonderful people who are helping me with questions, getting into Abuscade ( ffxi endgame content), Domain Invasion which I did yesterday which reminded me of FFXIV S ranks...

the story, the feel , the status effects and I love how you have to plan what to do and what status effects you need to apply on bosses or certain enemies like Dia III, party buffs like Refresh, Shell II, Protecta, Haste Samba...it really feels like a final fantasy game unlike XIV

sorry I am rambling but I don't want people to think that FFXI is only for nostalgic, older vets who are just wearing sunglasses and talking about the good old days... and there is a community for people who like XI playstyle and not this WOW inspired MMO XIV, I just wish I could have played XI in it's prime but it's never to late to jump into an adventure like Vanadiel.

the game is challenging and it's not hold handing like XIV and I'm loving it, wish I played XI sooner

Jkap on the Asura server

Saying you Wish you could have played XI in its prime is a wish that you slowly over time want to come true more then you know. The game is only a shadow of what it was in its prime, enjoyable shadow but none the less a shadow.

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Originally Posted by NonaLaggia

I just remember the riddle quest from ARR, where you had to think where the next location could be, where the community teamed up to solve the mystery behind it, wasn't this kinda fun? Didn't you enjoy it? Of course people who just wanted it completed were almost giving up, looking up for the solution of every step, but isn't that kind of thing, that we enjoyed the most? The community solving a challenge, a common goal we can pursue? Like I mentioned before, that kind of goal, of milestone can be achieved right now with the Ishgardian Project, but is there more?

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Challenge comes more from a lack of knowledge and the need to figure things out than from difficulty. That lack of knowledge is very high when a game is first released. No one knows what to do. No online guides and databases are available for people to use as a reference. The community has to work together to figure things out.

Once a player has experience with the game and has started gaining that knowledge, or can just look up what they need to know online, the challenge mostly disappears. Increasing difficulty can add some challenge back but it's still relatively light compared the challenge created by the need to figure out what to do. Look at Savage content. It's challenging when you first go in and you need to learn the mechanics. Once you know the mechanics and you clear it, it no longer feels as challenging even though the encounters haven't changed.

If you want continual challenge, you need to keep trying out new games so you have to overcome your lack of knowledge. It's not going to come from a game you've played for years because you know how it works.

The game used to be that attempting something during your after-work hours and not stressing too badly if you fail because, heck, it only takes some 4 completions atop whatever else you'd be doing to cap, wasn't mutually exclusive with 'casual' play. All 'casual' play took was to play casually, rather than needing to see set, consistent rewards, albeit of proportionately lesser value, for every X minutes spent on, say, an at-level roulette. That's not to say that the game was all that much more difficult before, nor that people didn't complain about Demon Wall or the like back then, but there did seem to be an overall sense of attempting something could be fun, even if you die, that's slightly declined since ARR, and that you didn't need such a strict guarantee of never wiping in a certain strain of content. There was content exclusively beyond the reach of 'casual' play, nor so wholly rooted in it. There was just... content.

I'm not sure how much of that I miss. Overall, I think even ARR failed to teach less curious or diligent players how to play the game nearly as well as it should, I think we're still reeling from the symptoms of that, and changes made to pander to those symptoms rather than address them, today. I don't know how quickly we can turn that trend around, but I hope we do.

I mean, if you want a real challenge in FF14, you’d do PotD or HoH solo. I still haven’t been able to clear that stuff. :P

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

Challenge comes more from a lack of knowledge and the need to figure things out than from difficulty. That lack of knowledge is very high when a game is first released. No one knows what to do. No online guides and databases are available for people to use as a reference. The community has to work together to figure things out.

Once a player has experience with the game and has started gaining that knowledge, or can just look up what they need to know online, the challenge mostly disappears. Increasing difficulty can add some challenge back but it's still relatively light compared the challenge created by the need to figure out what to do. Look at Savage content. It's challenging when you first go in and you need to learn the mechanics. Once you know the mechanics and you clear it, it no longer feels as challenging even though the encounters haven't changed.

If you want continual challenge, you need to keep trying out new games so you have to overcome your lack of knowledge. It's not going to come from a game you've played for years because you know how it works.

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Pretty much this. The game isn't easier now. Many things are harder than they've ever been; you just know more now than you did then. What you actually want is to be a clueless, starstruck newbie again.

The game has spent years getting progressively harder and harder. Compare any current boss/dungeon/whatever today to one from 2.0. There's WAY more challenge and more complicated mechanics than there were back then, but we're also much more in tune with the game at this point. Mechanics that seemed insane 5 years ago are cake now that we've seen them a million times. The fact that years later you're bored and jaded isn't the game's fault.

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Originally Posted by Brightamethyst

Pretty much this. The game isn't easier now. Many things are harder than they've ever been; you just know more now than you did then. What you actually want is to be a clueless, starstruck newbie again.

The game has spent years getting progressively harder and harder. Compare any current boss/dungeon/whatever today to one from 2.0. There's WAY more challenge and more complicated mechanics than there were back then, but we're also much more in tune with the game at this point. Mechanics that seemed insane 5 years ago are cake now that we've seen them a million times. The fact that years later you're bored and jaded isn't the game's fault.

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What a logical outlook on things ....but it isn’t true. Trials and Raids are things that have gotten more complex but Dungeons have been getting more trivial and boring every expansion. Aurum Vale a pre level 50 dungeon for example demands more skill and focus than Anyder a 80 dungeon with its narrow corridors and bleek, bland trash. That’s just one example. The jobs themselves have been filed down to the point of monotony. Healers are boring DPS are simplified and Tanks are getting awfully close to the Homongization healers are currently suffering in. Complexity is what the game lacks but whenever you bring that word in people freak out and think you talking about making a game with several skill branches and what not...no just make the jobs more personal and dungeons more reason to be alert

I thank every new Warrior who joins this conversation. I am really happy to see all your opinions and thoughts, and I am grateful for your honesty.
I continue to read all of your thoughts and still agree with every single one of you.
I will try to sum up everything since my last post and I will do my best I can, to pick up everything you told me.
I have to mention that I will try to heat up the told a little.

As I read, you told me about lack in classes and being overgeared. But also lack in complexity and experience we made over the months and years of playing.

Let me start with the first mentioned, the classes.
You say, that the classes we have and play - gotten easier and lost their complexity over the years, got simplified and have gotten monotone to play. The challenge here was purified to a general role model, a unification to all classes from one and the same role. This is something we noticeably see in ShadowBringers. The focus on making every class fitting their role as best as it can. This is no wrong move from the gods of Eorzea, but is it needed to simplify the classes to one and the same feeling? Taking the challenge and the individuality from one class to make "three big classes" with little to no differences? Playing a class, in my point of view, makes people feel confident, they begin to feel some kind of special. This is taken from them and the challenge to learn one class best, with them. You start to feel like one of many, but in reality people always strive to be special. We do not want to be the same, we want to have our own place in this world.
That said, that I do not think that this is something the gods expected to happen, but they wanted to make every class fit best with the role they are in. I think that happened because they unified and I hope that this kind of challenge returns with the events(patch) around Eorzea. But the fear continues, that the challenge in this place could vanish, once and for all.

Being overgeared is indeed something we see a lot and with every new book(AddOn) we open, this kind of thing does become even more obvious. To get back to my example with the Crystal Tower.
An average run in ARR of the first stage took us, with 120 mins. of time, approx. 50 mins., sometimes even more. Nowadays with the current book open, we are there for an average of 20 mins.. I have not to decline the fact, that we are now more experienced than before and we know all the moves and things we have to do there. But did you know, that you had to kill skeletons at the first boss of the undead dragon? And that adds are spawning in this fight? That in the three lined stage, the tank had to pull the adds to the group with the pressure plate, before they go to get a coffee? That the magic pod at the second boss can move too? And as last example, that the adds at Behemoth aren’t just decoration? All that love and passion the gods put in, got forgotten and with that our challenge. To move on from the Crystal Tower itself, we can look at Sastasha. The first dungeon in the game. Being overgeared can be a real time safer over here, but shouldn’t it be the first real group lesson for a new Warrior? Isn’t it the place were the Warrior becomes one with his class and learns all the moves he has to do, to be one with the people who accompany him or her?

What I meant with challenge and I have to apologize, is not just the fact that we have something specific to kill or to eliminate. It is the feeling to overcome ourselves. To master something we wish to master, again a milestone as big as we wish it to be. May a class we love to learn or just look great with the people around you.

I know there are people out there who cannot visit Eorzea all the time, who are on a venture themselves. But don’t you wish for yourself, a feeling like you had before? Finding something special in that world you have already seen, what you have not seen before? I think that this can be reached within one world. You do not have to explore a new world, if you love this one. That is the only thing I will disagree.

With a new book, a new adventure begins. But the feeling of the old adventure will never vanish. The world can be explored, changes be found. It is not about being here for a long time, it is about finding something new we had not seen before. The little changes and details in the old world we used to know.

With that said, I know that many of you visit the for a long time now. But would you love, if the gods decided to change a little detail from event to event in the old world we know? It does not have to be painted new, but a little detail that would make to world more alive? This would be a new challenge for us. A new world, even changed so little, to explore.

I think that this is enough for now.
I thank you all for your time and the honesty. I invite again everyone to join this conversation, be it the Warriors or the gods for themselves.

Thank you for reading.
(In future I will try to write less :) )