Quote Originally Posted by KaivaC View Post
The thing is, the game shouldn't be split between the mostly easy dungeons (save for a few exceptions) and the endgame raids. There is a rather big jump between the two with absolutely nothing in the middle. I feel like the devs should not be afraid in making some actual, true midcore dungeons. They've already stated that as far as MSQ goes, Shinryu is going to be the absolute hardest that they were going to make a story trial. Which is fine and all, but that leaves the rest of the dungeons that are fairly easy to do, unless the players in the party are woefully unprepared, or are not able to handle it.

There is room for a middle ground between the two (and that doesn't mean giving more trash mobs - actually, we'd need less trash mobs and more rewarding experiences).
Trials and alliance raids exist in between expert dungeons and normal raids.