What does Heavensward actually bring to the table as an expansion?

[KingOfAbyss]

No offense, but this game is not targeted at hard core raiders, nor will it ever be targeted at that specific community. It's targeted at a broad range of players. You need to consider those other points of view when forming your criticisms. In all honesty unless a game focuses almost exclusively on raiders, I don't see how it can ever satisfy raiders because there will always be compromises made for non-raiders. FFXIV focuses on the broader base of what is commonly called casual players, it's inevitable that thre will be compromises made in the game that raiders see and feel are problems. That is simply the nature of the beast.

Please do tell us why then all that we see in PF or /sh: (Sastasha Normal*) Must know your job/role, must be Uber, have iLvl180 for an iLvl170 run or 5 melded materia gear even on your shield as BLM, 1 fail and you are kicked.

*Kidding with Sastasha normal and shield for BLM here, but this ain't a joke with the real stuff.

It's pretty much 95% of the game right now, at least on NA servers.

That's Casual Gamers for you?