Quote Originally Posted by Thayos View Post
I said this earlier in the thread, but I think it's worth repeating. The state of raiding in this game would be better overall if raiding weren't the dominant form of progression-related endgame....
I've got to agree with this. I've personally got no interest in spending hours learning one fight. I did try to push myself through Coil back in the day for the story before becoming stuck at t9 and it was a really frustrating experience. I was really happy when Heavensward gave us Alex normal so I could experience the story without doing the real raid.

From my perspective XIV would be better off if the developers focused on fixing Diadem to be more fun and relevant and adding more forms of endgame progression other than raiding. Raids themselves shouldn't be removed or anything since there are people that enjoy that level of challenge but I think adding variety to the endgame is more important than incentivizing raiding.