Quote Originally Posted by Carin-Eri View Post
Okay, to start at the beginning, I started playing FFXIV mid-December (last year), on a Free Trial account (I registered several months before but hadn't actually played the game) and was instantly hooked - the story the game is telling is amazing and really does leave you with a 'just one more quest/cutscene' feeling at almost every step. I've subscribed and played through to the post-Stormblood/pre Shadowbringers quests so far.

Point in fact - I hit a proverbial brick wall a few days ago. Try as I may (and I've tried repeatedly) I cannot complete the 'A Requiem for Heroes' duty - I can just about scrape past he first stage (playing as Hien) but when it swaps to my character Ascian Zenos just keeps wiping me out no matter what I do or try. To my utter humiliation I can't even defeat him when have tried setting the difficulty level to 'Very Easy'.

I've seen threads/posts on this forum referering how many feel the the game is too easy and tried talking to a friend who dismissed my comments as me being defeatist - so I have to ask - since I don't feel as if I am really competent enough to play the game at this point, should I continue?
Keep in mind the people who post on the forum are more of the hardcore elite. The problem the developers have is they sort of have to ignore the loudest voice which is them because if they listened to them there would be no ARR and FFXIV 1.0 would of been good enough.

Think of most of the hardcore elite as people who like BDSM they like pain and get pleasure from it. In the gaming world they refer to this pleasure as accomplishment. Every time they get whipped its like them in game uttering, "Oh yes give me more accomplishment"

They do not understand basic facts why people like New Game + even though you gain no XP. In fact there has been topics with them utterly confused by this because they do not understand playing a game for the story and not getting an 'accomplishment.'

Even after FFXIV failed they the hardcore elite/minority felt the game was still easy. Keep in mind in FFXIV 1.0 if you played more then five hours a week you could not gain XP but you could lose XP and delevel. Pretty much the hardcore elite are sadists. Don't try to understand them.