My in depth review of FFXIV:

[Tristaris]

On occasion I'll toss a cure to another player who happened to get hit with an AOE but unless the tank isn't doing their EXTREMELY EASY job of keeping all monsters focused on them, I should never have to heal another player.

I stopped reading right there.

Have you done anything past level 40ish? Because from what I have encountered so far, is that there are a few encounters where there's some damage that can't be mitigated by stepping out of the red spot on the ground.

Also like someone else pointed out: time sinks does not equal a harder game. (Not saying this is really difficult before hardcore end game stuff.)

[alexhatesmil]

I stopped reading right there.

Have you done anything past level 40ish? Because from what I have encountered so far, is that there are a few encounters where there's some damage that can't be mitigated by stepping out of the red spot on the ground.

Also like someone else pointed out: time sinks does not equal a harder game. (Not saying this is really difficult before hardcore end game stuff.)

Not to mention the red circles start to disappear as you hit the higher-level encounters. And then you have those rather unforgiving encounters where if a single player forgets to do a single thing, the entire party gets one-shotted (e.g. missing a stun/silence on Dhorme Chimera). Even relatively simple fights with predictable patterns, like Ifrit or Demon Wall, are really easy to wipe on if one person doesn't do his job right.

And this stuff is just starter, lowbie end game.

[Scootaloo]

Not to mention the red circles start to disappear as you hit the higher-level encounters. And then you have those rather unforgiving encounters where if a single player forgets to do a single thing, the entire party gets one-shotted (e.g. missing a stun/silence on Dhorme Chimera). Even relatively simple fights with predictable patterns, like Ifrit or Demon Wall, are really easy to wipe on if one person doesn't do his job right.

And this stuff is just starter, lowbie end game.

Well, I have said that my character highest character is 47, so at the present time I have yet to do end game content like the stuff you guys are talking about.

On a side note: I made my review based on my experience in the game so far. That's what reviews are about usually, one's perception of said game based on what they have experienced in game. with that said, it can change as time goes on.

[Tristaris]

Well, I have said that my character highest character is 47, so at the present time I have yet to do end game content like the stuff you guys are talking about.

On a side note: I made my review based on my experience in the game so far. That's what reviews are about usually, one's perception of said game based on what they have experienced in game. with that said, it can change as time goes on.

Ah right, right, I missed the part where you stated your level- my bad.

A bit higher on the dungeon difficulty ramps up quite a bit- coupled with the tank having to most certainly work for threat. It's very easy to mis-time one ability and a very solid DPS to pull threat right now on multiple packs.

[Scootaloo]

Ah right, right, I missed the part where you stated your level- my bad.

A bit higher on the dungeon difficulty ramps up quite a bit- coupled with the tank having to most certainly work for threat. It's very easy to mis-time one ability and a very solid DPS to pull threat right now on multiple packs.

If this end-game content is as challenging as you say, I look forward to it! I will say this though, Dzemael Darkhold is challenging and groups I pair up with rarely complete it. Though the lack of completing is partially due to the fact that I get slapped with first timers a lot.