"Elitism" vs "Casualism"

[Awha]

Whether it's laziness or inexperience only matters in principle, but either way the result is generally only an extra 5-10 minutes, so why create a fuss? Is it really SO important to be rigidly principled to the point of starting arguments in a GAME that's this easy? If it's a real problem then address it, but if it's a few minutes then really... just let it go. That's my take anyways.

I do wish this game had more challenging small group content, honestly. I enjoy a challenge, but I don't enjoy coordinating schedules with an FC or static. Small group and solo content is so much easier to just do whenever, and I honestly don't understand why this game won't offer any even REMOTELY challenging content for less than 8 players. That's a different issue, though. It'd be nice if these roulettes were challenging but they're not, and I'm not going to brow-beat people over literal minutes in easy content just so I can feel special.

Problem is people seem to have such a hate boner for Mythic + style content. Small form difficult content that allows for character progression would be awesome, though I do think many would feel that the mythic meta would bleed into normal small form content and dictate the pace even more so then what we already have now.

Though I would gladly welcome it.

[Driavna]

Problem is people seem to have such a hate boner for Mythic + style content. Small form difficult content that allows for character progression would be awesome, though I do think many would feel that the mythic meta would bleed into normal small form content and dictate the pace even more so then what we already have now.

Though I would gladly welcome it.

In most cases that "hate boner" is justified. The introduction of Mythic+ created quite a few (big?) problems:


- ILvL Inflation. A month in and ILvL requirements to join a party are absurd.

- Normal and Heroic difficulty its pointless from a reward perspective, even more when Blizzard removed set bonuses during BFA. Pretty much, from a raiding standpoint, is mythic or nothing. This is why I stopped playing once Legion hit, finding a stable group for heroic is a nightmare.

- https://raider.io If you plan to PUG you better keep up with this.

- The whole drama around keys.

- If you plan to tank you better study, and memorized, the optimal routes for every single instance.


In order to really work for FFXIV it must be a self-contained piece of content, like Eureka or PoTD, with cosmetic rewards only. Also, SE will need to change the way dungeons trash and boss mechanics are approached.