The general player base needs to improve

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He was complained about because he's miles harder than any story fight preceding him. Nidhogg had an add phase with 3 mobs, two stationary and one mobile with a very slow attack. Shin has 12 mobs interspersed with meteor drops that would kill you at i290 if you weren't exactly on the edge, as well as being surrounded by a pit. The chest beasting "it's not hard" crowd get annoying in this game.

If anything Shinryu hard is stupid because they set the bounds of what you can do in casual content too early. They legitimately can't make anything harder than him at recommended ilvl without starting to get into ex-level content. He kind of ruined Byakko hard because of this; he's actually much easier than Shin.

Sigh.

Maybe if the story prepared for the sudden spike—and they actually put ilvl restrictions on leveling content so people couldn't enter Shinryu in Shire gear—things wouldn't have been an issue. Granted, my only problems with Shinryu were the sheer amount of idiots who didn't care to respect his mechanics and kept rushing in, treating him like any other story mode content. It's almost like everything else lets them get away with that.

They could have easily kept Byakko around Shinryu's level, but this game has no concept of scaling difficulty. Hence why we see sudden spikes in random directions.