Issue With End Game Raiding

[RiceisNice]

Let's face it the first tier of Alex proved that FF14 raid player base is just not 'hardcore' and that's why Tier 2 Alex was much easier than the first.


If you can't set a few hours a week aside for raiding then you can't raid. Simple.

The first part is debatable on whether or not what group of players they are aiming for. I wouldn't go as far as saying "tier 2 alex was much easier than the first" since I can see where some groups can have trouble with (such as Blaster in A6s, as well as the process of learning vortexer) Doing 6-7 hours of raiding a week (roughly 2 hours a day for 3 days) isn't enough to get lasting progression on a fight like A3s or A6s as far as retaining the mechanics are concerned. But when you go beyond that, Savage is also meant to be the to-go to raid for any and all static, alongside EX trials.

All we need is the current story mode and the savage. FF14 doesn't have the raid playerbase that WoW does so extra modes just bloat an already messy ilevel range and fragment then even more.

I'm in favor of making story/normal mode be tuned to a similiar range of difficulty as the EX primals. The latter is already tuned in a way that it becomes accessible through the process of gearing (and eventual echo), and prevents it from being delegated to a weekly routine from release like void ark or dungeons. In a wider perspective, there's a lot of content for players who have no interest in raiding, there's content for players who want to invest a lot of time for raiding, but only EX trials are there for players who want to raid but can only invest a small amount of time due to outside of obligations and finding other players to do so (which isn't necessarily easy, especially with smaller servers transferring off for gordias progression)