Steps of Faith needs an ilevel raise...

[Nektulos-Tuor]

Although I agree with most things said, your all basing this on your experiences, and most of them are done with help of a friend. Your also leaving out factors like how geared your team-mates were at the time you were doing it.

The reason I want to raise the ilevel isn't because of "just gear", its also experience.

An ilevel 90 at this level of the game, getting all the way to Steps of Faith with that level of gear probably has little to no experience in running the kind of content Steps of Faith is, and thats a HECK of a jump going from none to that.

However, an ilevel 100, or 110 player has that experience because hes run that content. He has the gear to burn down the adds, and do the bosses strategies a whole lot easier.

Now that the content is out, a lot of the geared players HATE it, a lot of them simply leave as soon as it starts and you get the ilevel 90-93ish players. This makes it miserable because not only do they lack gear, but also experience.

Geared players usually leave immediately, because they did it already and simply don't need it. They know that they will have a lot of trouble because the players who need it for the quest lack DPS, and health AND experience. Making the fight very hard.

Even hitting the dragon with every missile, plenty of cannon fire and explosive barrels, there's a good amount of regular old fashioned DPS that needs to be dealt before the beast goes down.

Exactly right, there is a large element of chaos within this fight. Not everything "goes exactly right."

Also the fact that everyone blames everyone else, because FFXIV players are not able to admit when they don't do well. They blame everyone else when they fail. Which gets everyone to leave.