Heaven on High: That's it?

[RiyahArp]

Did you ignore HyoMin's response regarding this previously? Yoshida outright said their data showed the majority of people preferred floors 180-200, i.e., they fancied a more challenging experience.

It would take four people staticing four hours without a single wipe to get to those floors in the past. You absolutely need a traditional party setup. Those floors are purely for the challenge; they are useless for leveling aetherpool weapons, for leveling classes, for farming tomes. They are useful only if you want to farm chest drops and get completion party or solo, and the former is actively discouraged due to the difficulty of the floors and mimics being very potent. I really, really would like to see his data on that, because virtually every incentive for POTD has nothing to do with 180-200, and the incentives drop off completely with 101+.

You know, I think Yoshi must just quiz the JP equivalent of bluegarter or something whenever he wants data, because saying more people liked potd 180 is liek saying more people like savage than leveling roulette. And I don't really see anyone complainign it was too hard, since all the hard stuff was elective and didn't really give any better of the core rewards casuals used it for,. Only soloists did, and to be blunt it is impossible to balance for solo content in there.

I don't want casual content to get much harder. That doesn't mean it needs to get easier. I don't want to wake up some day and have to fight susano ex as the next story boss. I don't want to have to be locked into doing all roulettes as my healer because I'd wipe the party if I wanted to practice a dps im rusty with.The difficulty as is is pretty good, with 24 man mechanics being the limit of casual content. I usually push back because people say everything is so easy it must get harder, or that harder is needed. Usually its the raiders who don't understand how someone could find something like shin hard, because "they've seen it all before."