Please scale the difficulty of Royal Menagerie

[sonicadventures]

If people can't find friends to do it, then that's exactly what the Party Finder feature is there for. Don't know anyone? All good, just list yourself and get 7 people to help. Who knows, maybe friendships will be forged.

Trying on PS4 sucks. I edited my reply cause of typos. But yeah.

[Vahlnir]

Trying on PS4 sucks. I edited my reply cause of typos. But yeah.

I could be misinterpreting this, but having a keyboard to communicate always helps. Wireless ones aren't bad but they don't stay connected. I use a wired one and play with a controller on PS4. Makes things much, much easier.

[Nestama]

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That's why I mention 'refusing to learn.' If the person having issues is at least communicating, apologising and actually trying to avoid the mechanic, well at least we can see they're trying. When I say refusing to learn, I mean someone who doesn't respond at all and doesn't seem to try and move to deal with a mechanic.

Yesterday I had a DRG in the party (who also did not do their level 70 Job Quest) who died to Tidal Wave three times. This is arguably the easiest mechanic to learn in this fight and we explained what to do (go to water spout/follow everyone else), but they died to it every time (they didn't try to group up). Another one they died to every time was the 'Dive Bomb' attack after the phase transition (we didn't explain this one, but... why should we?). I was ready to vote kick them if we wiped a third time, as they spent most of the fight dead (I think they got a total of ten raises in one run).

[sonicadventures]

I could be misinterpreting this, but having a keyboard to communicate always helps. Wireless ones aren't bad but they don't stay connected. I use a wired one and play with a controller on PS4. Makes things much, much easier.

nah, I'm using the controller. No KB yet. I need to get one, but just recently moved and bills. So I got another month before I can get one.

[Avatre]

I could be misinterpreting this, but having a keyboard to communicate always helps. Wireless ones aren't bad but they don't stay connected. I use a wired one and play with a controller on PS4. Makes things much, much easier.

My Logitech K800 hasn't had issues staying connected to my PS4.

[Vahlnir]

nah, I'm using the controller. No KB yet. I need to get one, but just recently moved and bills. So I got another month before I can get one.

Gotcha. It's well worth the money whenever you're able. Will definitely improve your gameplay experience considerably.

My Logitech K800 hasn't had issues staying connected to my PS4.

Hmm, might just be bad luck with wireless then. lol

[akaneakki]

I love the fight as well and will /happy any time I get it in Trial Roulette (like today). It keeps me awake.I will stop Raising DPS who die more than three times, though...

I fully agree there! I even que it sometimes to help people and I always go healer to make sure the people who dies gets raised and that I can actually do it on my own with a healer who fails a lot as well.

[Fricca]

Congratulations on being able to clear Royal Menagerie Normal Mode yourself.

I'm sorry to hear that you got too much "life" to even begin thinking about playing your class decently.

On the other hand, for someone like me who only really likes raiding. I question myself each and every waking moment the game make me do the same thing over and over and over again. Why am I still here? Don't I have enough "life" to do more exciting stuff outside of the game? Why the tome grind? Did you say relic? Oh, I've not finished one since the first phase back in 2.0 where you pretty much only had to kill 3 relatively fun primals.

Why whine about content you could actually learn from and work on progressively, instead of the time-consuming, mind-numbing ones they force you to do for the sake of "content"?

SEplsdeleteentirebalmungserverkthxbai

[magnanimousCynic]

According to a new Famitsu article first-timer clear rate for Royal Menagerie is 89%.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...time_from_the/

If you don't want to go to reddit then here's a direct link to the article, although it's untranslated. http://ff14net.2chblog.jp/archives/51979337.html

I think we can put this thread to rest now.

[Galgarion]

I just cleared it for story mode, three minutes ago. I just spent an hour trying to clear it with an underperforming group, and then lucked into a more competent one on my next attempt. I was bad during the first attempt. I kept getting knocked off the platform, I didn't stack during ank mourne, and I was paying more attention to my fell cleaves than the ground. But that hour I spent sucking hardened me up (oh god, PHRASING), and with the second group, I played like a different, smarter person, and I got the clear and a few comms. I understand the frustration of failing at something you want to succeed at, but the failures make the victory so much sweeter. I wouldn't feel this good right now if it hadn't been a good fight where I KNOW I carried my weight. That's my thought on the matter.

EDIT*

Holy crow, that ending makes it so worth it. I'm wrecked. I made a friend without realizing it and now he's gone because he was crazy. *sob*