Make normal primal encounters more relevant to the extreme versions

[LucentLagombi]

This should be the same for everything including raids. This way people can train on boss mechanics on a forgiving environment. Extreme/Savage should just be about more damage done and 1 hit kill mechanics. The problem now is that its too difficult to "learn" a fight.

That would take away a large draw to raids for the raiding communtiy. Why would you even bother when a lot of the point of doing the raids is to learn a new and fun fight with new mechanics and design. If you go in already knowing the mechanics then progression would just be rapid and boring. We already saw what that's like with just alexander and the uproar on lore and art already. If people aren't happy with similarities in just the look of the fights what makes you think identical fights would be good for the game?

[DukeGr]

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In a sense that may be true but at the moment hard content in this game is experienced by only a small fraction of the playerbase. By allowing people that desire to learn and become better, without making the process itself almost impossible for people that are either late to join the "learning groups" when content is released or just don't have so much time to dedicate to a static, you will see a much higher participation percentage for the "hard content".

Take for example Thordan Extreme, no one does learning groups anymore and people farming it require experience and clears. It's impossible to attempt a clear via Duty Finder and unless you are in an FC with people that want to help it's impossible to get a clear. Now if the Normal Thordan fight had the same mechanics and you could clear it multiple times to learn how it works, the transition to attempt the extreme fight would be 100 times easier.

[Destous]

Take for example Thordan Extreme, no one does learning groups anymore and people farming it require experience and clears. It's impossible to attempt a clear via Duty Finder and unless you are in an FC with people that want to help it's impossible to get a clear. Now if the Normal Thordan fight had the same mechanics and you could clear it multiple times to learn how it works, the transition to attempt the extreme fight would be 100 times easier.

This exactly. It's crazy to me that naysayers to making extreme content more accessible/more streamlined to learn isn't seen as a sense of elitism, yet having a built in meter is seen as elitism.