New Unreal is a an all around miserable experience.

[Ransu]

If the average player could clear it week one then it wouldn't be "unreal" level of difficult now would it? Its supposed to be hard. Unless you're a world first level player its going to take time to clear. If you don't like uber hard content then don't do it.

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To be fair, he is the end and the beginning.

[LianaThorne]

It's called nuance. I'm not asking for it to be as easy as UW, I'm asking for it not to be on par with a current Sav. Gradual ramp up in difficulty is all I want! 4h of wasted effort last night and barely saw Storm twice, and that was with 7/8 fc on voice. Which means I'd likely have to spend another 4h just proging p3 in the PF, and that not even taking into account that everyone just joins a p3 prog group as a fresh and has no idea what they are doing on the first 2 phases (I know I tried it this morning and got absolutely nowhere, never even saw p3 with people wiping constantly on the group stacks and baiting the kb). With the massive difficulty spike the PF is going to be a nightmare of wipes for reclears on a weekly basis. I guess asking for reasonable progress to be possible in 4h of investment is just too much. I had better success puging Sav last tier, it only took me 3-4h to get enrage on p2s and maybe another 2 to clear. This is just as if not more infuriating mechanically.

Only 4 hours of wasted time?
Let me know when you hit weeks of not clearing a fight and get back to me.

You're giving up extremely early and should probably consider making or joining a hardcore static if you want immediate clears.

[ServerCollaps]

prog and clear it, join duty complete groups in future, profit

[Issaella]

Only 4 hours of wasted time?
Let me know when you hit weeks of not clearing a fight and get back to me.

You're giving up extremely early. If you want things to clear to your expectations, make your own static.

This isn't a Sav or Ultimate fight. Unless I'm drastically misunderstanding what Unreal is supposed to be then it should be doable with a reasonable amount of time input. That is not happening at the current level of difficulty.

[Deveryn]

New Unreal is miserable because a majority of people have only ever cleared EX unsynced, if ever. They still refuse to watch guide videos (3rd party tool?! hnnnngh ). People still want to stack stack markers.

[Iyrnthota]

It's called nuance. I'm not asking for it to be as easy as UW, I'm asking for it not to be on par with a current Sav. Gradual ramp up in difficulty is all I want! 4h of wasted effort last night and barely saw Storm twice, and that was with 7/8 fc on voice. Which means I'd likely have to spend another 4h just proging p3 in the PF, and that not even taking into account that everyone just joins a p3 prog group as a fresh and has no idea what they are doing on the first 2 phases (I know I tried it this morning and got absolutely nowhere, never even saw p3 with people wiping constantly on the group stacks and baiting the kb). With the massive difficulty spike the PF is going to be a nightmare of wipes for reclears on a weekly basis. I guess asking for reasonable progress to be possible in 4h of investment is just too much. I had better success puging Sav last tier, it only took me 3-4h to get enrage on p2s and maybe another 2 to clear. This is just as if not more infuriating mechanically.

I believe, technically speaking the gradual ramp in difficulty starts at Normal into Extreme, but you've previously indicated that Extremes are among those you're not interested in

You have Sav, Ultimate, and Ex. Why can't we have 1 piece of content that people can do without hours upon hours of misery?

Unreals are going to be variable, depending on what fight is being redone, it could be as easy as the simplest EX, or as difficult as an easy to moderate Savage.

I suspect that if you wanted to move up from UW Unreal, the next gradual step, current content wise, would probably be EX 1 or 2

[Ath192]

OP please stay away from ruining content for other people. If you're a casual this content isn't for you. And there has been plenty of mid level difficulty content that you and yours have ruined already by your incessant complaining.

A few examples that come to mind are Orbonne Monastery, Castrum Lacus Litore, Aurum Vale.

Unreal is a recreated EX fight restored back to original difficulty and it will be Extreme Level difficulty. Its not a nerfed piece of fight you can just mindlessly freestyle and have the healers carry you to the finish.

Please understand, thanks. A lot of ppl enjoy this stuff.

[Issaella]

I suspect that if you wanted to move up from UW Unreal, the next gradual step, current content wise, would probably be EX 1 or 2

I've done Ex 1 and 2, I've done p1s and p2s multiple times with weekly reclears. The new Unreal is at least on par with p2s in terms of difficulty from my experience last night. Proging and weekly reclears on p2s for the 6 weeks it took to get what I wanted were absolute torture and completely unpredictable.

[novamare]

I can't wait for my static to get back together (somehow we all have cursed schedules week 1 ) so I stop wasting time in PF for this. I've been in at least half a dozen groups so far and not a single one has gotten to storm of words. Some groups I've had to teach from the ground up (which is a lot of fun, don't get me wrong, but so much time is spent on early prog that we barely touch phase 2), and other groups seem to understand the mechanics but still struggle to put it into action. Although there have definitely been some salty folks, I'm grateful that most of the people I've partied with have had good attitudes and plenty of patience.

Not to mention, the strat I've seen used the most for the purple aoe is putting it directly under the boss, which has backfired a lot as folks scramble to avoid overlap. Also, so much confusion around left and right? Then half the time add phase is a stupidly close call, and tethers/towers seem to be a tossup. But somehow (by sheer luck? divine intervention?) the tri-knockback has gone smoothly every time we've gotten to it. Maybe that's the only thing people remember from the original fight

But man do I wish there were a checkpoint. I'm so tired of ratzon, not to mention, phase 2 music is objectively some of the best in the game. (Fight me )

Hopefully in the next few weeks folks will start to really get it so the PF clears go faster (or actually happen at all...). But I'll probably stick with my static so I can grab the new bird with as minimum headaches as possible lol