Quote Originally Posted by Vyrerus View Post
If the stat squish doesn't make it really hard, then I kinda feel like both Sohm Al and The Vault are a lot easier than they were when they were current.
They straight up nerfed all the HW leveling dungeons going into Stormblood since it was supposedly a bit of a stopping gap for newer players. At least that seemed to be their logic with The Vault.

Quote Originally Posted by Jeeqbit View Post
Normals are not meant to be hard anyway, but I agree that they should balance Extreme and Savage when on Minimum IL No Echo.
There's a difference between not being hard and being drooling on your keyboard levels of easy. When I finally completed Heavenswards about a year after it launched, I was actually letdown even as a new player by how absurdly easy Thordan Normal was. It doesn't exactly make you feel hyped when standing in literally every AoE does negligible damage and he's little more than a target dummy with pretty visuals.