the normal content is too easy

[HyoMinPark]

I, too, like to compare the first tier of content to late expansion tiers and pretend it's a valid comparison.

What are you even talking about? Did you read what I wrote, or did you just opt to spout off nonsense? It’s a fact that a lot of older content was a lot more challenging on release when you compare it to what we have now.

Anyone who says that Aglaia or Hydaelyn EX or Zodiark EX or P1S are harder than some of the content I mentioned clearly never did the old fights when they were relevant.

Rabanastre was more challenging than Aglaia was, since you’re so insistent on a “first tier only” comparison. Rabanastre was more challenging than Copied Factory. Weeping City was harder than Puppet’s Bunker. I’d say it was also harder than Ridorana. Dun Scaith and Orbonne are relatively the same difficulty, but they both torch Tower at Paradigm’s Breach. I have no expectations that the second and third tiers of The Twelve will live up to the absolute insanity that was Orbonne when it was relevant. Considering how much people complained about the latter.

Cruise Chaser (A11S) and Omega (O11S) were most certainly harder than Daddy Thancred (E11S). Daddy’s Thancred’s most complicated phase is the last one and a decent party skipped 2/3 of his cycles at the end.

As crappy as Bismarck EX was, you weren’t seeing it done with NO HEALERS during its relevant patch. Same with Ravana EX. Lakshmi could be done with one healer, but not with none. Neither could Susano. People didn’t start dropping the healer until the end of the expansion. No other EX have lived up to Thordan EX or Sephirot EX, relevant patch equivalent or later. For the latter, you’re speaking nonsense if you try to say Byakko EX or Ruby Weapon EX were anywhere close to the difficulty of Sephirot. And I doubt any x.2 EX will ever beat him. Shinryu and Hades EX were good fights, but Thordan wipes the floor with both of them. And we don’t talk about the massive disappointment that is Endsinger EX.

Midas in and of itself was harder than Sigmascape and Eden’s Verse combined. I enjoyed God Kefka (O8S) and Shiva (E8S) as fights, but it’s laughable to say they hold a torch to Brute Justice (A8S). Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Robots (A6S) were nerfed while relevant; meanwhile, Chadarnook (O6S) was a literal striking dummy. Ifrit/Garuda and their love child boss (E6S) were harder than Chadarnook, but that’s a low bar to beat.

But tell me you never did the fights I listed when they were relevant without telling me you never did them when they were relevant.