MSQ Difficulty and Exclusion

[Omedon]

Spotted the person who hasn't played through the MSQ on a healer.

FFXIV has become so easy that much of its content isn't engaging. That's the problem. Every. Single. Time. Someone says this. We get "toxic gatekeepers want everything to be super hard!"

FFXIV has a toxicity problem: its TOS babies and validates every lazy impulse a player might have. No meanie can -ever- dare suggest you improve at something. Yeah they DON'T pay your sub! If this were a live and let live situation then fine, but Square has been continuously, constantly dumbing the engagement out of everything, MSQ included, and a lot of us are sick of it.

I'm not going to get into a protracted discussion on a thread that isn't my own and thus isn't easily tracked, but I'll just say that the difficulty curve of the entire game, in a game like this, demands that a healer's damage dealing toolkit be as minimalist as possible. This is a necessary evil for the good of the rest of the game, I'm afraid. I am almost at omni 90, I know exactly the issue you're talking about, but my point still stands. The game cannot afford to overly "engage" the "healers that want a challenge" in the core mandatory MSQ lane, so long as this is a trinity game. Knowing this, if you continue to do the MSQ on a healer (and to be honest, on a "caster concept" character, healer is your best bet for survivability), you likely should continue to expect this. It's not ideal in the "I want a challenge regardless of job" vein, but it is, once again, a necessary evil for the good of this kind game.

If you want a challenge as a healer, might I suggest you group with a like-minded party of friends in difficult trinity party content? Criterion is coming!

And to be fair... I threw the word "engaging" in there to leave room for occasional challenge. Ideally the MSQ errs on the side of easy/inevitable for everyone.

PS: I love your name!