The constant disbanding of Steps of Faith

[RiceisNice]

Well it's the final story battle of the 2.x story, makes sense that it's this hard. I'd be disappointed if it had been lolLahabrea easy again.

Yet we've had no difficulty ramp up since the start of Levi HM. And all things considered, this didn't even feel hyped like the "final" battle as much as ultima was. I'm all for content being progressively harder as we go down, but we've had absolutely none of that with how the HM primal fights were designed.

That's not the point. The point is that we basically can't have challenging content and, if we do, it gets nerfed asap. The future content to be released will pretty much have that in consideration before it gets developed. Step of Faith was, ironically, a first step into a something different world of development and I really wanted to see more like that in the 3.0, but sadly it broke the existing structure. People expected a tank+spank, they didn't have it. They failed. As a consequence, the whine was real. They called it "hard", because people were unable to pay attention, let alone following instructions.

And this happens because we have no build up to this sort of difficulty or coordination required out of a main scenario fight. Can you even consider steps to be a traditional trial fight like the primals or the Ascian beforehand? It's different, but it also raises up the bar for expectations of group coordination (for something that's put on duty finder), which I feel is done poorly either because there was no build up to it (previous trials had no difficulty behind it) or where it's done (that it is a gate to an expansion, which might as well be a new game altogether).