A Fond Farewell to FF XIV

[SturmChurro]

Because you are overgeared for them. If you're synced close to min ilvl like leveling dungeons it can be very different.

Nah. I have been in groups that wipe like crazy and take centuries to kill a boss, even in decent gear.

[MPK]

Lol bye bye.

Disagreed with each one of your points especially 5 and 7. points 5 7 made me very happy that you're leaving.

[Nora_of_Mira]

Because the OP wants a midcore tier that is harder than expert dungeons but easier than extreme/savage/ultimate. My point was therefore that if you run them at minimum ilvl they are quite brutal. The Burn wiped groups regularly when it came out. It was actually really tough and took time for the average ilvls to improve enough. So if you want that midcore challenge then you could try that.

it's my personal theory (this isn't directed to you, just the relevant playerbase) that folks asking for more mid-core content just don't like learning from failing or failing in general.

I have an IRL friend who is a lot like OP: healer main, sticks to dungeons, peaks at 24man content and avoids anything more challenging. When we dragged him (encouraged) into Seiryu, he struggled, but was able to learn the fight after many wipes, but that was after convincing him not to freak out after a few wipes. Every wipe was a freakout. He constantly got angry and we had to chill him out in order to get him to stay. He is perfectly capable of this harder content but it was his mental block of freaking out at every wipe that made him avoid it. But everyone knows in savage, you learn from wiping over and over and you gotta let the wipes just roll past you and make sure you learn why it happened. Kind of off topic, but OP really reminds me of my friend.

[Nyvara]

Sorry you lost me somewhere between "git gud" and "gender neutral"

[Jamein]

Because you are overgeared for them. If you're synced close to min ilvl like leveling dungeons it can be very different.

No, even at minimum ilvl the dungeons are extremely faceroll we've all done them at low ilvl at the start of expansions. There's no challenge in an expert what-so-ever unless you literally do not understand the concept of don't stand in the red thing.

[Mavrias]

If it wasn't fun then why do it? It's not worth it for the stats if you aren't also enjoying it, and doing it just for the glamour is much less work and you can stop the moment you've got what you want.

That was a rare exception though and they've demonstrated that large-scale action changes only happen in expansions.

The book boss regularly wipes people in gubal. The adds can kill people because of L5 death. The second boss can rack up the vulns and damage if nobody knows what to do or can't coordinate the tethers, leading to wipes. The last boss requires the group to coordinate and run together and there is usually at least one death, often the healer followed by the DPS, leaving me to solo the rest of it. The last boss in The Vault was always brutal in HW and one that people wanted to avoid. Bardam's Mettle is fine but everything does heavy damage and some healers struggle with that. There is no such threat from expert dungeons even if you don't know what you're doing, because of how overgeared you are.

Because the OP wants a midcore tier that is harder than expert dungeons but easier than extreme/savage/ultimate. My point was therefore that if you run them at minimum ilvl they are quite brutal. The Burn wiped groups regularly when it came out. It was actually really tough and took time for the average ilvls to improve enough. So if you want that midcore challenge then you could try that.

there are mounts, glamour pieces, and minions also to be gotten from eureka. its not just the weapon stats. less work is still work if you want to get the weapon glamour from later stages.

a rare exception that shows that they can do it, however, and thats not the only one. the amount of eyes needed to enter nastrond for dragoons is another one.

i have never wiped to book boss and i played heavensward on release.

level 5 death will only hit you if youre standing in the aoe thrown by a monster casting a move with "death" in the name.

those vulns literally will not kill you unless youre getting hit by add aoes or your healer isnt healing at all. and its not hard to figure out what to do with the flame. eventually someone is going to get the bright idea of hitting the boss with it.

if your healer is dying to adds on the final boss of gubal library its because the tank isnt tanking them. which isnt the dungeon being difficult its your tank being stupid.

last boss of vault is only difficult if everyones getting hit by avoidable damage. if you know how to dodge and break a chain, ser charizard is a cakewalk.

so, again, the dungeons you listed are cakewalks if your party knows how to play the game with any degree of competency.

[Taybat]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and feelings. Honestly I've been feeling the same way. there seems to be a huge disconnect lately. I love this game still and appreciate what Yoshi and the dev team has done for this game. But it's YoshiP is more interested in other projects right now.

[Gojin]

see you in shadowbringer

[MikkoAkure]

"i'm leaving and this is why" is dramatic now?

These types of threads don’t really lead to much serious discussion and are filled with a lot of “lol bye” and “don’t let the door hit you on the way out.”. That and the OPs of these types of threads don’t really seem to stick around to discuss and like in this thread, some of their reasons are good, but others come across as being really specific to them and filled with more emotion than something that can be used as a serious topic of discussion.

Re-read his #5 reason and tell me that doesn’t sound dramatic.

[Eriane_Elis]

You are right. This is a sub+buy game+dlc kind of game. You shouldn't have to buy anything from the mog station like that. At least BDO, the king of microtransaction BS that have overpriced glam (well, SE is a strong contender now) offers their game for free and you can buy all the shop items in-game with in-game currency. Same with GW2 and pretty much every other MMO.

But I think shadowbringers might be good, it's really hard to tell right now. They are clearly targeting it towards WoW refugees so we might get a lot of super-easy, casual content. Like you, I feel that Yoshi P's team is really not listening to the community anymore and hasn't been since a long time ago. I've given game companies faith and they always betrayed that trust at some point and I'm pretty sure SE will do the same eventually. For now, there's not enough negative things about shadowbringers that I know of to make me not want to play it. When I started to play the game it felt like a horrible MMORPG but once you reach end-game it is decent.

Besides your gender neutral point and gender locked races, I agree with your other points. It's a non-issue and hardly anyone cares. It's expensive to implement, it's not like they have cloth physics and can add any piece of fabric to characters like a modern game. This game engine is a dinosaur. It's better that they spend time fixing broken game mechanics and add new content than to focus on unlocking genders.