Current State of End-Game Contents - A Blog Post from A Japanese Player

[Iriadysa]

I'll try to stay calm but...

Twisters or landslide are easy ?

try to listen to it at least once : it's easy for YOU. Doesn't mean it's easy for everyone (don't serve me the "you didn't do it and that's why you say that", I have beaten both T5 and titan Ex, both on a flawless basis, no hit taken apart the compulsory ones.)

The mechanics behind twisters and landslide are so simple that there's no learning time for it. Summed up:

Landslide: move away from the straight rails that come out of Titan's center.
Twisters: move and don't stop moving until Twisters is finished casting. Don't cross paths with anyone else nor yourself.

Are those not easy enough for you? I cannot see anything, anything at all complex about those mechanics. You don't have to even play the encounter once to understand how to beat these mechanics, so this isn't a "die and repeat" case.

So if the mechanics are not complex to understand or hard to memorize, what is the real difficulty behind them?

Landslide: people have poor reaction times.
Twisters: people are not paying attention (for twisters you don't even need high reaction times, as long as you move before the cast is over you are golden).

And people are still asking for easier content. It baffles my mind.

The point here being that the mechanics (which is the main critique through out this post of biblical proportions) are for the most part not complex and the difficulty lies in people simply not being able to execute them correctly, not understanding them.

(I still think the execution is super easy, but I can understand how this differs from person to person)

I have no doubt I would have been able to go at least up to T9, maybe even beat that T9 once before 2.4 comes. But I don't think it's worth my time

This is just gold. I used to know someone like you. He could solo anything in a game I played before XIV.

He just couldn't be arsed to do it because it would "take too much time". And thus he never did it. Not even once.

[AllaganStop]

So I just took a look at the fights on youtube, got really annoyed of what I saw, and decided I would not go there until the nerf, because it was not worth banging my head on it.

I had nothing to gain back then, and now I have nothing to gain from T9 besides the story, which I could eventually watch on youtube if I really wanted to go down that way. Hence why it's "wasting my time", rather than "taking too much time". No matter how hard I try, I can't feel proud to beat a content I've mastered and which became piece of cake (for me, don't make me say anything else) right after. I'll eventually feel relieved for a few days, before being bored and never set feet inside ever again.

So you're just bad. Got it.