No more content like Rath Extreme, please.

[MoroMurasaki]

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There is literally a 'story mode' for this fight, though... no one has to do Rath EX in order to experience the crossover. Sure, it yields better rewards if you take the extra step but I don't see why that's a bad thing. Try harder, get more stuff.

I agree that difficulty is subjective, but to be fair optional content doesn't need to be accessible to 100% of the playerbase. They definitely toned down aspects of Rath EX, in particular his very generous enrage timer, which allows most players and compositions to complete the fight with some practice. Of course people who are literally out there clicking all their abilities with their mouse might be excluded but, to be fair, they can still do Rath normal to participate in the event.

I just don't see the trouble with locking optional, aesthetic items behind a harder fight. It's literally all vanity items.

[Coratanni]

I agree that difficulty is subjective, but to be fair optional content doesn't need to be accessible to 100% of the playerbase. They definitely toned down aspects of Rath EX, in particular his very generous enrage timer, which allows most players and compositions to complete the fight with some practice. Of course people who are literally out there clicking all their abilities with their mouse might be excluded but, to be fair, they can still do Rath normal to participate in the event.

Over 60% of my hotbar, I access with my mouse, so this fight has not been enjoyable for me. I'm at 4 clears so far, but I'm guaranteed at least one death each clear. I've cleared all Extremes except Shinryu, and have o5/6s on farm since early on in the tier. This is just not the kind of content I do well in, unless I am using a gamepad with limited number of abilities on a console and I don't have to look at a hotbar at all. Which is not the case for FFXIV. I HAVE to have some of my attention on it and I'm not exactly a young player anymore.

I wouldn't suggest anything about them nerfing this. I'm just commenting that this kind of fight in an mmo is a major head bang for me. Still beateable but... Ugh.