Quote Originally Posted by Synapse View Post
When a challenge is thrown at you, try to over come the obstacle and do the best you can. Not get on forum and asking DEV for a hand to hold.

Patch 1.18 Filter of the weak.
Agreed, however I wouldn't go as far as call it a filter of the weak. That's a tad... aggressive lol.

To me it essentially gives players more room to improve and display their skill, and have it pay off in the end with their friends and shell-mates appreciating their hard work. It gives players room for progress. A challenge to rise to.

FFXIV was lacking that more than anything.

What I believe is happening mostly is that due to the "easy-mode" status the game had before, almost anyone was amazing at whatever they would strive to accomplish. Now with the introduction of a necessary level of difficulty, a lot of players who believe they were amazing tanks/mages/DPS find that what supposedly made them amazing does not work anymore. It takes effort to reach a level of effectiveness they previously had almost subconsciously.

I prided myself in being a very good tank. Some would say I had delusions of grandeur, stating I was my shell's main tank. With 1.18 I realized how I used to not have to do much at all to hold hate and tank, and that the skills I had did all the work for me.

I have since embraced that change, and am now both researching and working on improving my tanking to be the best it can be.