Titan Extreme is NOT Fun

[Maye]

While I disagree with Archambaud that this is valid game play. Note I am a hardcore RPG (not actionRPG) player, which dislike Fighting or DDR revolution games. I agree with most of what he says. Except that unlike him, I am affected by 3 things:
1. FC is not doing Titan X runs.
2. BcoB group has little time to do and are affected by lag.
3. Unable to find 7 pro players, at one time, to help.

Sorry. I can't help you find a group.

Both the above make it hard for me to even consider that the Titan designer has a clue about the real world outside his LAN connection to the game server. Also I do not find it fun that DDR has come to Final Fantasy. The supposed leader in old fashion RPGs.

I hate to break it to you but as far as I can tell, FFXIV has no intention of playing like an "old fashion RPG" -- every encounter in the endgame involves mechanics like this except for arguably Turn 4. If you don't like it, you may be out of luck unless the developers make a serious 180.

Also as Archambaud said, groups make a big difference. And definitely the groups I join make the experience less the stellar. Great for you all that have great group. But that is the minority, not the majority.

This certainly applies to MMOs in general. The people you are playing with will make or break the experiences long after you care about the gameplay. Playing with 7 random players is always going to be less satisfying than playing with 7 friends.

Concerning the static aspect of gameplay. When the location I keep on wiping is the final phrase, and every time all need to do sames phrases before group can practice on the phrase party wiped, yea it gets static or lets say extremely boring fast. Especially when it is not a given that you would even get to final phrase as in my experience people make a lot of mistakes and there is alot of network connection issues, thus something would screw you over.

This is pretty standard. Both of my groups spent quite some time wiping to divebomb/snakes/twisters and we had to play through the adds + conflag phase of T5 every time. There's not a lot that can be done about this. Polish your strategies to make the early phases as easy as possible and set you up for a clean transition into your current progression phase.

Thus coming back to my point of bad design (for me):
1. This is an RPG, is the designer even a RPG guy? Why is action, DDR, etc, becoming a bigger aspect in RPGs then RPGs gameplay?
2. It is divisive and exclusive instead of being social and inclusive. Why at the same time being the only method to get some BiS ilvl 90 gear. If it was only vanity, I would care less.
3. It is designed too narrowly with only a select group of people in mind. Excluding everyone else. Which is especially bad when the whole extreme content which this stalls you is 37.5% of the whole 2.1 patch. Made even worst when the other main content, LotA/CT locks you out of loot after a few plays. So for people that points out that Titan Ex is not for everyone. I would like to point out that it is 37.5% of the new patch and thus at the minimum should be for 37.5% of all players.

I'm glad you admit that it's a personal preference. I would like to make one point here that it's impossible to add content which qualifies as "for everyone" -- for the type of player who looks forward to challenging, difficult content to play anything that is too easy would be considered boring. So while they have access to the other 62.5% of the patch (I guess 3 extreme boss fights = 37.5% of content compared to dailies, 3 dungeons, moggle mog, main story quests, and CT) that content isn't really exciting for them. If the extreme primals were easier/more accessible, then I could say that "0% of the patch was added for hardcore players"

As for it being anti social or w/e I don't see it being much different from BCOB at all except that I can run it w/more than just a set group of 7 other players. More social, even. I take FC members on practice runs and help them get completions all the time. I can't do this for coil.

It sounds like your complaints more accurately fall in between:

"I don't like action elements in my Final Fantasy MMO"
and
"The FFXIV netcode sucks."