Well, they actually did it, the absolute madmen

[Berethos]

I wonder how long it'll take till they add difficulty options at raids.

Beyond the current normal/savage options?

Likely never.

As I'm apparently having to keep repeating today, this system is just adding control over when or if you get the Echo buff, and if you do by how much...when the game already gave you the Echo Buff after failures of instanced quest content, has done so for ages, and was simply not something over which you had direct control.

This isn't a wholly new system nerfing instanced battles from quests in ways we've never seen before. It's literally taking a thing that has been in the game for ages and adding a "Do you want this?" menu option.

In other news, Chicken Little did not see the sky falling today.

[MyakotApelsia]

Beyond the current normal/savage options?

As I'm apparently having to keep repeating today, this system is just adding control over when or if you get the Echo buff, and if you do by how much...when the game already gave you the Echo Buff after failures of instanced quest content, has done so for ages, and was simply not something over which you had direct control.

I get your point, however before you still had to first had to take on the challenge, and you gotten to high levels of echo through trying to clear it on higher difficulty. Not fail once and then just go with easiest option avalaible. There still will be people that will fail it on 100% anyway. But eh, for some it will be good change, for me its not.

[Arazehl]

The change will be both good and bad. There are always those who will just suicide just so they get the three options of difficulty. This being the bad.

I do have a fc buddy though who is super casual, not because they had a say in being super casual. Being disabled and up in years, they can't play mmo's as they once did. They are stuck in one solo instance near the end of Stormblood unable to defeat it. They have tried at least two dozen times or more. In this case I do wish they had this option of selecting which difficulty. They didn't even get to get the Regalia mount even though they tried the instance until the event was ended. Think the "warp strike" was a little bit much to handle for them.

Anyway for those others who have this kind of issues, this isn't all a bad thing. For those too lazy to try, well if there is an easier way around something they'll take it.