Quote Originally Posted by Wegente View Post
I've raided since 2.0 and back in the Coil days I used to play with what I'd call an average midcore static back then, we used to play 9 hours a week. We cleared First and Second Coil about 1 month before echo release, so we took around 5 months to clear.
The top groups back then on my server (Ragnarok) got their kill around 1 month after the content was released.

Nowadays I know a lot of midcore statics that play around the same amount of hours as I did back then, and even though their skill is average and I wouldn't call them good players, all of them got their clear in around a month at most.

If you want to check how high the clear rates are nowadays compared to pre-Creator days, just look at FFlogs.
Gordias for example was cleared by 44 people on Ragnarok before 3.1 was released.
Midas was cleared by 88 people on Ragnarok before 3.3 was released.
Eden Savage has been cleared by 2119 people on Ragnarok and 5.1 is coming out next week. Numbers speak for themselves.

Those raiders also have gotten better since then too so just comparing those results won't tell you the whole story. Point being that I don't think the game has gotten THAT easier since then, yeah we have a bunch of QOL things now but peoiple still wipe in dungeons, people still don't know how to hold hate, people still can't heal. And this is at a time where we have quite afew QOL skills now and people still fail.