Quote Originally Posted by Cubsbane View Post
The reason you're dying and screwing up is because you're new to the game.
If content is truly easy, me being new to the game would have been irrelevant. "It's easy if you have enough experience" means that it isn't easy. Dark Souls is also easy if you have 3k hours in it. The exaggeration does not do your argument favors, it just makes it very confusing to understand, and it's not clear if you're just out of touch with a chunk of the sort of people who play games or what.

By your own admission, it's boring to veteran players. And, yes, 3 years is sufficient for veteran status. A training raid should not be your definition of hard. And since this appears to be the first alliance raid series people get, yes, it's effectively a training raid.

The point is that if you make it more difficult, people like me will probably start causing total wipes, which will result in people very angry at new people / bad players / whatever.
Quote Originally Posted by Cubsbane View Post
Also, you don't need to do Crystal Tower for MSQ until Shadowbringers. Not even 5.0, but 5.3. You're gonna complain about being "stuck" in the best-received expansion ever? Considered by some even as what makes FFXIV the best Final Fantasy?
Crystal Tower is required for ARR progression right now. ARR is not where you want your playerbase to get stuck, given that a lot of us struggle to not fall asleep there, and the hook of the "great amazing story" is not yet present.