If you continue to dumb down the game, you will lose half your player base

[Y2K21]

Here's something I want people who don't care about the game getting easier cuz "you can just do savage and ultimate 4head"
What about the midcore players who did most content outside of savage? Who primarily farmed alliance roulette and extremes and dungeons who's having to deal with two of those three becoming content you do once then discard? Or who's favorite jobs got dumbed down to appeal to players who dont really play the job like all healers or summoner? What do you do if savage and ultimate are just too draining and normal is too easy to be engaging and hardmode has been missing since HW?

The problem has always been that there isnt any midcore bridge content from Normal to Savage. Some people will say Extremes, but thats really debateable.

[HyoMinPark]

The problem has always been that there isnt any midcore bridge content from Normal to Savage. Some people will say Extremes, but thats really debateable.

It used to be Extremes to an extent. Some were tuned to be between the second and third Savage floor in terms of difficulty (usually the odd-number patch primals, so things like Shinryu EX and Tsukuyomi EX); others were harder than a lot of current Savage fights (Thordan EX and Sephirot EX); and others still were easier than the first current Savage floor (Byakko EX and Suzaku EX). But generally, yes, they were considered to be the bridge. Now? They’re definitely not harder than current Savage—the two we have now are jokes (though, so is P1S, to be quite fair—the only thing it has going for it is Intemperance being a gotcha mechanic for those who don’t know how to do it).

I’ll be curious to see where Endsinger sits, and to see if it does fall between P2S and P3S.

[MagicalChase]

The problem has always been that there isnt any midcore bridge content from Normal to Savage. Some people will say Extremes, but thats really debateable.

I whole heartedly agree! I feel like in ARR that's what hard modes were for. but also back then we even had hardmode dungeons which I personally was a fan of.