The MSQ Endwalker Trial Bosses are WAY too hard for newer players to FFXIV

[kaynide]

I still disagree with some of what is being said here - as said in my previous post, there shouldn't be some kind of 'set standard' for how good a player should be by the time they reach a certain point/level. I don't think anything in life really works like that. You may find it easy but it isn't fair to assume that everyone else should.

I'm terrible at the gameplay - I've had to play most solo MSQ's on 'Easy' or 'Very Easy' and still managed to fail them numerous times before stumbling/blundering through them via luck. I'm terrible at Duties too and generally have to be carried. And reading threads like this don't really help - granted there are some 'encouragement' posts... but generally it's "should be good by this point in the game" replies, and reading those just makes me feel humilaited that I stink so badly at the gameplay.

Anyway, my enthusiasm toward the game has dropped to 'don't want to log in anymore' levels now, as reached "A Frosty Reception", died very early on (playing as Thancred) and realised that I'm not motivated to go through the whole 'try and try again' process, and am not really enjoying the game anymore. And with that being the case, what's the point?

I hope you rekindle some interest, but if it’s not fun, you really shouldn’t force yourself.

That said, I don’t think this is a you problem here- each expansion tries to do a few new things at varying degrees of success. A lot of times the things that just don’t work and are tweaked as the expansion ages.
In EW, they tried many new ways to play and a big problem I would argue is the directions were unclear or just straight bad on how to do it. While I enjoyed the espionage mission it was a bit of a disconnect to the norm, and the body-swap was god awful.

Fortunately these.. "minigames?" are far and few between, but they are draining! I distinctly remember the solo fight against Zenos in Yanxia being a burn out for me. Took way too long… I thought “oh ok, it’ll end when I get him to 90% I guess….” Nope….

Edit: clarity/less rambly