New Alliance Raid is severely undertuned.

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I don't get this forum obsession with turning every content into savage.
Just go play Elden Ring if you want to stress your hair out over pixels.
If you don't find FFXIV engaging enough go do Ultimate like Yoshi-P says.

Uh, increasing their HP wouldn't turn it into Savage lol.

I do think it's a problem tho, there's a lot of story fights where people don't even get to see all of the mechanics and the best and most hype parts of the songs don't even get to start because the boss dies too fast.
You have a much better experience with it on day 1, it kinda sucks that people who aren't playing everything on day 1 end up having a subpar and less hype experience in comparison.

Elden ring isn't that hard. Its mostly preparation and patience

I've beaten Elden Ring twice, both times without any bullshit cheese tactics.
And beaten all of the others so many times I've lost count I've probably spent thousands of hours in the Souls series.

And no Elden Ring is way too hard, not in the way people say that the Souls games are hard but because they're complete bullshit.
Early game there's some of it but nothing you haven't seen before in Souls games ( delayed attacks and super aggressive bosses that belongs more in Sekiro + double bosses and tons of rly aggressive adds with the boss etc ).
But late mid to late game the game kinda just derails into absurdity, Joseph Anderson uploaded his review of the game about two weeks ago and I think he went into quite well.
The quality of the boss design in Elden Ring is pretty awful and it has nothing to do with '' git gud '', and just because overpowered and completely imbalanced weapons and builds exist doesn't change that they're poorly designed.

What made past Souls games great was that the game was fair but punishing, Elden Ring is just unfair and even more punishing the bosses blatantly cheat and have infinite stamina.
I am not saying Elden Ring is a bad game I personally loved it, but I also hated the boss design and thought it was the worst in the series which is quite unfortunate for a Souls game.
I guess one could make the argument that it's easy if you use completely broken and overpowered weapons ( which kinda just speaks for the poor balance not exactly something to praise the devs for, it's even worse in PvP too ).
But I think at least that it's better to judge the game on how it plays without abusing some of the series most broken weapons, and yeah in that regard the game is absurdly unfair and poorly designed.