Thank you for increased difficulty

[Sigma-Astra]

I don't mind the challenge, except I feel that the Mist Dragon is too unforgiving for it to be part of the MSQ.

Difficult Side-content is fine, Suzaku is not MSQ nor is Alphascape, and that's entirely fine. That bit of content can be skipped if the player can't hack it. MSQ, however, is kinda required for everything else in the game, and it shouldn't be so difficult.

But Mist Dragon is tuned just a wee bit too high for an MSQ dungeon, just a wee bit unforgiving, and 1 group member's mistake can easily wipe the whole group with that directional AoE or how the healer getting clipped by an AoE is almost certain death if you don't have a RDM or SMN in the group with you.

The Mist Dragon was a nostalgia throwback towards the ACTUAL Mist Dragon from Final Fantasy IV. Literally, they are both very similar minus the "swooping" that it does from XIV. You're not suppose to attack it when it turns into Mist, if you did....you got thoroughly rekt.

That is the point of him/her/it (I don't know what gender a Mist Dragon would have) being that difficult. It was actually difficult back then, and that was when they first introduced the ATB system too!

[Maeka]

The Mist Dragon was a nostalgia throwback towards the ACTUAL Mist Dragon from Final Fantasy IV. Literally, they are both very similar minus the "swooping" that it does from XIV. You're not suppose to attack it when it turns into Mist, if you did....you got thoroughly rekt.

That is the point of him/her/it (I don't know what gender a Mist Dragon would have) being that difficult. It was actually difficult back then, and that was when they first introduced the ATB system too!

The mist phase is the easiest phase in the fight, other than the ridiculous DPS check to kill the heads before the AoE spreads all over the whole ground.

The part that wipes groups is the dive-bombing (it doesn't help that you get an unavoidable DoT and the group is encouraged to spread out against the edges of the arena making AoE heal impossible, not that standing still to cast is safe by any means) and the ludicrous damage of the targeted line AoE that targets one person. I hate it when melees don't realize this, and I try to avoid them (if I notice one of them has the marker; it's hard to see on a melee right up against the dragon because the marker is blue and the dragon is white with all the other blue and white going on), but sometimes they dump the line AoE right on me and I get stunned... 60% of my health missing, and a powerful dot that does 20% of my health per tick.

If I don't get a heal or a DoT remove in 3 ticks, I am dead wholesale. Because of something I had no control over and very little way of knowing was coming.

Oh, and that stupid Star-Shaped AoE.... the marker displays, and disappears a second later as someone else mentioned above. Got clipped by that a couple times today, it's really cheap. Especially when the dragon puts down TWO of them and the AoEs overlap each other and you really have no time to react to it. You don't have time to study the star and know which way the lines are going to fall. When the lines do fall you are not given enough time to move out of it.

And again... 60% health + stun+20% DoT is just cheap.

And let's not forget the cheapness that is the dragon laying a DoT zone on the ground, going into mist form, then one of the heads appears above the DoT zone and you've got a melee-heavy group.

GG.

You're just done at that point.