Who Thought Adding Difficulty Levels To Instanced Quests Was A Good Idea?

[DevilsDontFly]

I can kind of understand people feeling concerned about this considering the wipefests that still occur during the MSQ trials if you happen to end up mostly with new players.

I'll use the same argument I said on the other thread: MSQ doesn't even tailor itself to your role. You can raise the dificulty levels up to the roof, you still won't be able to perform a healer or tank role properly because everything is set and done with the perspective of a DPS. If the solo instances were actually shaped after whatever role you enter the duty as, then yes, I'd be iffy about making it too easy because people wouldn't learn how to perform their jobs well. But when you have to Malefic spam in a fight in which the only objective is move around, rely on bad AI heals and drop someone's health bar to 0 before a countdown, well, I couldn't care less.

[Saefinn]

I didn't realise people used the MSQ to learn how to play their jobs.

If people are worried about people of a lower skill level causing wipes in content, people tend to learn game mechanics from dungeons and trials and not MSQ. Dungeon and trial difficulty throughout the MSQ is progressive.

[Maero]

It is a good thing actually, i have older friends who have in the past struggled to do some of those solo fights which are required to move on with MSQ.
I do also see the viewpoint but will point out like someone said jump potions and also .. Palace of the dead or heaven on high that some use to "learn" jobs, but whatever players do what they will do it is whatever, lol

[Penthea]

Oh nooooo
Someone will be able to pick different difficulty level for the fight that has no effect on me and my playing experience whatsoever, absolutely UNPLAYABLE now gg wp SE you destroyed your own gaem!

Yea it's totally not going to affect the fact that I already carry people quite often in normal modes by healing and ressing the results of easily avoidable damage. These people had the ability to complete the normal modes of the solo content. Imagine the people who cannot and choose the easier modes instead.

Lovely.

[Sebazy]

So much this... How the hell you guys get triggered by something so futile

I’ll remind you of this next week when the mouth breathers are all vote abandoning the new 24 man because they suddenly can’t mindlessly faceroll through something.

[Goji1639]

Yea, I've been playing through the story at the default difficulty. It doesn't teach or require any real knowledge of how to play to complete. If you know which button makes damage happen, you're good. Adding an easier mode won't change anything, though it does feel unnecessary.

Honestly, I wish there was a harder difficulty and an option to solo dungeons with AI, though. Besides a handful of trials everything has been a faceroll; I have no idea if I'm playing well because it's never really seemed to matter one way or another.

I'd like the option to actually fail content if I screw up, so I can retry and learn some stuff.

[Nalfein]

I’ll remind you of this next week when the mouth breathers are all vote abandoning the new 24 man because they suddenly can’t mindlessly faceroll through something.

Sure, I'll wait...

[Penthea]

I’ll remind you of this next week when the mouth breathers are all vote abandoning the new 24 man because they suddenly can’t mindlessly faceroll through something.

Sure, I'll wait...

No really, that will happen. It happens literally every time there is a new 24 man. It's practically part of the patch content at this point.

[Nalfein]

No really, that will happen. It happens literally every time there is a new 24 man. It's practically part of the patch content at this point.

I'm surprised because it never ever happened once to me since the beginning of 24 man content..

[Axxion]

The only thing I'm upset that its not a hard difficulty i wouldn't mind having. Other than that I'm okay with.