Can we please stop locking content out of DF?

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Possibly.
Have you even gone and looked at videos for any of the endgame content for this game? It takes weeks of effort to clear some of the raids, and you casually trivialize that without even having set foot in any of it. I mean, you're doing stuff like Alex Normal and Void Ark that's meant to be faceroll easy. My static's working on A3S now and even though we more than meet the gear requirement now, it's still hard.

I've looked at a few, I don't see anything in them that seems too special from the outside.

Also I'm not "doing" Alex and Void Ark, I did them, got bored, and now I'm done with them. I just want to move on to the next step up whatever it is. The problem being that according to people here, that step doesn't actually follow in order as you would expect, but rather has a 100 hour buffer of the easiest most boring stuff in the game before I have the gear and cross-class skills to meet the arbitrary requirements.

The fight being in DF doesn't lower the DPS requirement.

DPS checks shouldn't exist anyway. They just measure gear with no regard for skill. I have yet to see a thing in this game where skill was a factor, that's why I'm so against this combat system. It feels like I'm playing a clicker game, just watching the numbers get bigger as nothing really changes.

Upgraded Eso gear has more primary stats than Void Ark gear, meaning you do more damage just by wearing it. Optimizing your secondary stats can also do a fair bit for your damage output. Item level is far from being the end-all measure of DPS capacity.

Then why does it take so long to earn (both rate and cap) in only the most boring of ways? And to compound the boredom they limit the roulette for it to only 2 choices of dungeons. This feels like the kind of thing that should be giving like 100 base with a 200 first-timer bonus, uncapped, for running ravana or bismarck EX (Are those DF or not? I heard mixed things about it)

So you're a DPS that's purposely gimping your damage by 10% every 80 seconds. Okay.

Not purposely, that would be having the skill and refusing to use it. I just don't have it.

I wouldn't want to take a Ninja without B4B either. Cross-class skills are an important part of optimization. If you don't feel they're worth the time, you're going to have a hard time finding people that feel it's worth their time to take you into endgame.

It's not that I haven't started on it. Why does it take so long to unlock? Why are secondary classes such a grind? Obviously if I've gotten this far on my main he content my LNC is being forced to do is boring and easy as hell. He's 29/34 and it's the dullest thing to do. I've resorted to just accepting leves and letting someone else actually run them while I play Mario Maker, but those allowances run dry fairly quickly. Is there something faster?