Well, they actually did it, the absolute madmen

[Blokeymon]

I want to preface this by saying I am a casual scrub. In fact, to call me a casual scrub would be a compliment. I am by no means a great player, but I am competent...

Have we really reached the point where we're now actively catering to players who cannot be bothered to learn their jobs, read their tooltips, and actually press buttons?



I understand brand new players having difficulty learning the ropes in the first few levels of the game, and I love guiding new players on their paths, but when a small number of people are complaining about not being able to smash a solo duty at level 70... LEVEL SEVENTY... when everyone else can clear it with absolute ease, and those people are catered to instead of suggesting they simply learn their role...

"But if you can clear these fights easily, why do you care?" I hear you cry.

Because when people are given an easy option to clear already basic content, this spills over into Duty Finder, which on Chaos DC is already a sea of Ice Mages, zero-DPS healers, Tanks who only pull one mob at a time, and Paladins who insist on using Clemency on themselves at 95% HP.

Duty Finder gets filled with the kind of players who aren't pushed to learn their job properly, or even to a competent level, and then everyone suffers.

Guess it looks like I'll be running content with my FC in future, because wew lads.

[Saintly]

I was certain this was a troll post till i saw the patch notes my self.
I really have no words.

[Sebazy]

Difficulty levels:

Normal
Easy
Moogle

Maat is probably doing a spinning kick in his grave right about now

=(

[Blokeymon]

Difficulty levels:

Normal
Easy
Moogle

Maat is probably doing a spinning kick in his grave right about now

=(

Ah, I see you're on Chaos too.

[Nedkel]

They missed an opportunity to name easiest mode a "popoto"

[Oichi]

There are people that play solely for the story. I don't see the problem in making easy for them to do the MSQ SOLO duties, if they have issues with it. Remember that we do have people of all ages, people with disabilities, etc, playing FFXIV because they do love the storyline.

[Moonlite]

There are people that play solely for the story. I don't see the problem in making easy for them to do the msq solo duties, if they have issues with it. Remember that we do have people of all ages, people with disabilities, etc, playing FFXIV because they do love the storyline.

Which will be perfectly fine. As long as they do all instances with NPCs/trusts, or should I say not in the group finder with randoms. Those few bumps are the only skill road bumps in the game before you play with others. That is probably what bothers other people. They won't get a buff to increase their skill when playing with others.

[Wyssahtyn]

Eh. DF is already a mixed bag at best anyway. And frankly the solo instances for MSQ are, more often than not, just a pain in the rear. Especially the RP ones. I'll look on the bright side and look forward to breezing through the slog that is Thancred's RP fight Or Hien's, though at least he gets a whole combo now. At least I hope it'll be a breeze. Dunno if the RP duties are affected by this, though they should be.

[Enla]

There are people that play solely for the story. I don't see the problem in making easy for them to do the MSQ SOLO duties, if they have issues with it. Remember that we do have people of all ages, people with disabilities, etc, playing FFXIV because they do love the storyline.

This. So long as they pull their weight in group content it really doesn't matter to me if they chose to opt in for easier content when playing Solo.

[Nalien]

I'll be honest, I already feel like the dungeons in this game are tuned to "Very Easy". We've come a long way from Demon Wall and his bees...