"Casual" content thoughts

[RiyahArp]

I'm not a hardcore player, and I thought Royal Menagerie was easy, assuming you actually get paired with people who didn't play like it was their first 5 minutes on the game.

It's a dramatically harder fight than any story trial before it. if you did it at launch, at around i300, it was a lot tougher than if you did it weeks or months later once people were gearing past it. Go do it, then Go do Nidhogg hard, and watch the timing of the abilities. It's no contest in terms of tells or time to activate.

If you’ve actually seen hardcore raiders say that they want challenging content but in actuality demand a faceroll, please give me examples. Because I have never seen such a thing. The more hardcore raiders have been asking for content that provides them with a challenge they want, hence why Ultimate was so positively received by hardcore groups: they asked and the developers actually delivered.

Ultimate was received by people who aren't even doing it. It didn't even attract attention to raiding in the game; after the world firsts, any mention of it died off a cliff, and even the PFs for raiders it inspired are gone. It was great to watch other people do it, but in the end that's all it was good for.