New Alliance Raid is severely undertuned.

[SamsaraTrickstar]

why people now days want any thing just be given to them for free and no effort what so ever?

[IkaraGreydancer]

why people now days want any thing just be given to them for free and no effort what so ever?

Why do people keep falsely saying "no effort"? It seems alot of you don't know what that means.

[Ishe-P]

Is this the end of Final Fantasy XIV?

[Vahlnir]

Is this the end of Final Fantasy XIV?

This needs to be added to the "Many Deaths of FF XIV" thread, if it still exists.

[Haventale]

I think it’s too easy as well. But I also think there’s a problem with what two conflicting playerbases think alliance raids should be. One group looks at alliance raids as a concept and see that they should be midcore content. But the other group looks at it as yet another content they should be able to put no effort into and have others carry them through it. It’s like how that second group complained that Delubrum was toooooo hard. Meanwhile the rest of us were relieved we had a single piece of midcore content.

[Kaurhz]

To be fair, this raid is tuned at 565 (Whether this is good is an entirely different discussion), but most people are already geared quite significantly above. Not only that, we have already seen how the general player-base reacts to 'difficult' alliance raids, going as far as to neck their own item level to avoid anything inconvenient.

From my experience farming this a bit, most of my runs have been around the 25-35 minute mark, which if I'm honest is the perfect length of time for an alliance raid.

[RobynDaBank]

To be fair, this raid is tuned at 565 (Whether this is good is an entirely different discussion), but most people are already geared quite significantly above. Not only that, we have already how the general player-base reacts to 'difficult' alliance raids, going as far as to neck their own item level to avoid anything inconvenient.

From my experience farming this a bit, most of my runs have been around the 25-35 minute mark, which if I'm honest is the perfect length of time for an alliance raid.

I think it's fine it's tuned for 565. Upwards of getting you 560 Job gear and accessories from Expert dungeons... how else would a more casual player gear? I suppose there's crafted items which TBF can be expensive some servers, and a few pieces from Aphorism thrown in. I'm someone who had Savage prospects, and I still disliked capping Astronomy every week.

[Kaurhz]

I think it's fine it's tuned for 565. Upwards of getting you 560 Job gear and accessories from Expert dungeons... how else would a more casual player gear? I suppose there's crafted items which TBF can be expensive some servers, and a few pieces from Aphorism thrown in. I'm someone who had Savage prospects, and I still disliked capping Astronomy every week.

That's my point, really. If you go for a higher item level or tune it to a higher item level then you really start making it a whole lot more unfriendly for the people with which the content was designed around. I don't think they need to tune to a higher item level, versus introducing a more stringent sync on it. As it stands all alliance raids with sync at the cap for this expansion, not for the current tier. Personally, I would sync it around 575. Content shouldn't be designed around the expectancy that people can just buy from the market.

But then if I were to be the elephant in the room, or to spit on peoples' cornflakes, then I would argue this whole thread would turn to "But I have nothing to do with my gear!!"

[Faafetai]

(Yes, we have ilevel sync. Ask the Labyrinth of the Ancients or Syrcus Tower how well that works consistently to maintain the challenge level. Has anyone actually seen the platform mechanics in Glasya Labolas in, say, the current geological era?)

You beat me to it >.< I haven't played the newest raid series yet, but many things have lost their mechanics because of this. I looked up all of them to see how the raid was, and gosh it has so many I never seen. The only time I seen Xande go crazy was during a run my parents did where they almost wiped because the glowing yellow circles everyone usually goes into kept showing up at least 5 times and many people were new and there were not enough people in the circles. There are some other times that people have wiped but it never takes long enough to see any of the cool mechanics. I tried not to go into many trials synced when I first started out because you don't get to see all of the mechanics most of the time and I wanted to learn them.

Susano can get spicy and you can see (at least I think you can see all of his mechanics), but Thordan you have to actively try to die to him, but something like Nidhogg is a step up in difficulty. I really don't know with this game sometimes. One moment you are passing out at your computer and the next they give you a fight with mechanics and you have to pay attention your first time through. Going from Ruby Weapon to Emerald Weapon to Diamond Weapon went from really cool mid challenging new mechanics, to easily telegraphed mechanics that went kind of slow, to difficulty that was really decent, but going from one to the other it felt the difficulty was kind of all over the place so when you are finally awake you are extremely not prepared.

It is similar with some of the dungeons they reworked, haukke manor is a snooze but does teach some mechanics, so is brayflox, but copperbell is fun enough you don't fall asleep and the new msq stuffs is fun. It is kind of all over, it could be gear and a mix of that and different fight designers as well. It will make me sad as it always does if the new raid I get in my first time and things die in seconds and I never see all the cool mechanics. I can't just undersize and try it I would have to put up a min ilvl party finder just to see the mechanics. I don't want it to be extremely hard of course but I don't want to miss out on mechanics because people are blasting through just pushing their buttons normally until the one day I need to learn the ones that never show up because I got one of those teams I get trolling in lota.

[Johaandr]

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.

why is this comment getting so much likes?
For real. Its not about obsession its just... whats the point? Yeah there is savage and ultimate but PERSONALLY i dont find them enganging as i do with ALLIANCE of 24 people.
Having plenty of people feel "safe" as player wont be the only one dying and meeting new people on a DIFFERENT atmosphere thru DUTY FINDER. We dont ask for more.

I mean its okay to be casual??? but majority on people who liked ur post are probably "easy mode-casual" which is even worse. Play kirby then?????????

"jUsT gO pLay ElDen RiNg" gosh ur not entitled to tell people what to play and thats ironic