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

[Mahoukenshi]

But it's not a solo game. It's an MMO. There are MSQ duties where you need to play with others. You want to only experience the story? Go watch it on youtube.
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Again, if I suck at group-content mechanics, I won't get better at them by choosing Normal over Easy/Very Easy in Solo MSQs. I won't. You (not you specifically) may be concerend in group play in that I should play without being a PITA for the other 4-7 members, but in solo content it's my decision how I play. I wish to believe that many players are able to differentiate between how to conduct between two game modes. Just because I decided to choose an easier setting, doesn't mean that I don't want to improve my equipment (as long as it doesn't lead to running the same dungeon over and over and over and over and over and over), or refuse to AoE or - at least - try to avoid bad stuff. That's pure BS and overgeneralisation of player groups. Besides, you won't probably notice that someone chose an easier difficulty outside of conjecturing.