Middleground between normal/ hard content + coils of bahamut rework

[LalafellDown]

Extremes are not the middle ground. I really hate the one hit kills mechanics. At least they can do is make extremes have more forgiveness. Some of the dance moves we’re required to memorize have like 5 different things we have to look at and do (6.3 extreme).

The normal modes would show you the boss attack and the extreme mode will add 3 or 4 moves on top of that move. It would be nice if the devs trained players by making normal mode do the same moves as extreme but slower and more forgiving.

[Altiel]

I can't tell for the difficulty part, since i'm actually fine with the current syste. For my wife a mid difficulty could help her since she lack of selfconfident for extrem, it might help her passing the gap and go in extrem fight.
For the bahamut coil i think a "normal" version should be had so people could enjoy both the fight and the story and the current version could be renamed as "savage" just as the other 8 man raid

[VerdeLuck]

I can't tell for the difficulty part, since i'm actually fine with the current syste. For my wife a mid difficulty could help her since she lack of selfconfident for extrem, it might help her passing the gap and go in extrem fight.
For the bahamut coil i think a "normal" version should be had so people could enjoy both the fight and the story and the current version could be renamed as "savage" just as the other 8 man raid

The problem with doing that is there's already a savage coil of bahamut in the game, Nael has a savage version and a normal version, both beyond what is normally story level difficulty in this game, so what do you do there?

[Rongway]

Extremes are not the middle ground. I really hate the one hit kills mechanics. At least they can do is make extremes have more forgiveness. Some of the dance moves we’re required to memorize have like 5 different things we have to look at and do (6.3 extreme).

Extremes are the middle ground because if you fail the choreography you will usually only kill yourself. It's unusual that one person failing to dodge a single attack will wipe the party in extreme. Contrast this to Savage where if one person fails to dodge a single attack they will often take the whole party down with them.

The normal modes would show you the boss attack and the extreme mode will add 3 or 4 moves on top of that move. It would be nice if the devs trained players by making normal mode do the same moves as extreme but slower and more forgiving.

This would make Extremes too easy. Extremes are already easy in that once you know the fight script, you can dodge everything without evening looking at most bosses. The balance is that (1) you must learn the fight on Extreme, which means you must make it through the earlier mechanics in order to see the later ones and (2) the new mechanics are often untelegraphed, so someone has to figure out how best to choreograph them so that everyone lives. By having the story mode fight include all the extreme mechanics at all, let alone with telegraphs, would trivialize the extreme version even more.

The problem with doing that is there's already a savage coil of bahamut in the game, Nael has a savage version and a normal version, both beyond what is normally story level difficulty in this game, so what do you do there?

Second Coil (Savage) isn't really a Savage as we typically understand the term to mean. It's supposed to be the original difficulty of the Second Coil floors before they were nerfed while they were still relevant. There have been so many changes to the combat system since then that it's no longer representative of the original difficulty anyway, so either remove them or leave them as the new actual Savage raids for Second Coil; it doesn't really matter.