This game is just way to hard...

[Deifact]

The game has some flaws, yes. But the only difficulty I've found in it, usually comes from party members.
There is some seriously bad players in this game. I've played MMO's for nearly 15 years and this game by far has the highest number of poorly skilled players. I am trying not to exaggerate when I say even WOW's playerbase is more skilled/dedicated than what I see here.

Yeah I agree. Most of the content can be done maybe with a few wipes with competent players, but if you're unlucky and get one brain dead player it's GG.

I did guildhest roulette yesterday and got gil turtle. The party ended up killing the turtle (I was WHM) because none of them read what to do or listened to me saying pull back to herb etc. It was the biggest fail ever.

To OP I suggest finding at least three players you get on well with and forming a static/partial static. You can complete content way easier if you know how the group works together from past experience.

[Doo]

But the only difficulty I've found in it, usually comes from party members.

That's probably the main reason but also has to do with the unresponsive feel of using abilities, lag, the "cast time" dodging, bad camera angle, and PS3 as well.

[Nouran]

IF THIS GAME IS WAY TOO HARD WHAT DO YOU CALL DARK SOULS ?

[Cherie]

[Sove92]

Yeah, keep whining about easy or just fine difficulty, you'll give us more Atma grinds (because Titan HM was too hard to some ppl, relic upgrade couldn't be boss related anymore).

I wish it was as casual as SE and others claimed it to be but imo all that casual and omg it's so easy only applies to ppl with statics.
If you don't have 1 like me, then the game is almost impossible to progress thru in terms of coil.

Here's the catch, the extreme primals and coil were never claimed to be casual by SE, this game was designed to have both types of content. Coil was designed for static groups (and 1-5 were only opened to DF because of the echo buff and now easy outgearing, making it puggable, but still requiring an effort, it is still not claimed to be casual).

[Zaiken]

I think the hardest part of this game is finding the right people, Linkshell and a good FC who doesn't already have a static they run with already to do end game contents with.

[Kaskel2000]

I actually really love the difficulty curve in this game. Admittedly I've only been 50 since last week (new ps4 player), but it seems to be a nice pace with each new dungeon or primal. Thing is watching videos and reading strategies has always been a part of mmo culture especially if your using a random system to queue for dungeons. People kind of have an expectation that you at least know some of the tactics before you start. In previous mmos this extended to large guild runs too. If content wasn't new you need to have a slight idea what to expect even if it's just reading boss strategies. The only time I've experienced learn as you go was with a tiny kin in lotto where we were all friends. That was the play style that we all wanted as we were casual and just trying to have fun. So if you want to learn as you go join a small group of people.

[Luxx]

What makes me sad is finally getting to end-game....the HM dungeons arent even hard. lol.
Pharos Sirirus, i was told that this was one of the hardest dungeons end-game. it was sadly easy...
this game is gg to easy, i guess its time to step in coil coz these hm dungeons are waaaaay too easy.

This is one of the easiest mmos I've played...

this too btw.

[Garlyle]

What makes me sad is finally getting to end-game....the HM dungeons arent even hard. lol.
Pharos Sirirus, i was told that this was one of the hardest dungeons end-game. it was sadly easy...
this game is gg to easy, i guess its time to step in coil coz these hm dungeons are waaaaay too easy.

If you hit Pharos in this patch, yeah, it's easy, because parts that were particularly nasty were nerfed. See also Demon Wall in Amdapor Keep.

Also, unfortunately the HM dungeons have suffered from an overall iLvl inflation of the players you'll be doing them with. Somewhere like Amdapor Keep really isn't a fraction as strict as it was designed to be when, even if you're only iLvl 50, the other three members of your team are 70-90.

[Craiger]

Hard is the wrong word to describe FFXIV. If you have problems with the content because you are failing and not the other players in the group, then I'm afraid you have to get better... As harsh as it may sound.

That being said, I don't go through the content very easily, but that's cause it's hard to find a good group, and also a lot of content is meant to be done with people you know.

I have no idea how it would be done, but I would like the game to be more about yourself doing good, and not about all around you doing good. Maybe some kind of individual reward for doing your job the right way or something....

I love the game Dark Souls, which is truly a hard game, but put the same game in an MMO environment with 7 other players (scaled ofc) and suddenly it turns into a nightmare...