Quote Originally Posted by Alaray View Post
stormblood dungeons and normals were pretty much the same difficulty tbh, if anything this last normal tier had more difficult things to execute in a df environment than any of the stb ones did. i can't really think of a stb dungeon boss or hw dungeon boss i'd call harder than what's been in dungeons now.

none of the stb alliance raids were that difficult people just got cleaved by hashmal and that's all anyone remembers. anyone who played back then was worse at the game than they are now, and job changes over time affect perception of difficulty as a lot of jobs did have a lot of things removed from them they'd have to manage to some degree back then (ie: threat).
Mistdragon was a real barrier for many players, have a couple friends that even had the dungeontimer back then ran out cause people couldn't beat it. Dungeons in HW were overall more engaging cause enmity wasn't just generated by the snap of a finger and healers had to heal actually more and had to swap between damage and healing cause cleric stance was a thing.

Stormblood raids were actually pretty challenging, the first boss of ivalice and lighthouse for example. Construct beat people up who couldn't do math. The dragon people who don't understand magnetism. Hashmals cleave and the adds you had to kill otherwise they explode and deal massive amounts of damage to the whole raid. Construct back then just killed you outright even at full health when you had 2 wrong answers.

Compare that to today where you can have only 1/3 of the group stand in their area when halone does her addphase and they still can kill it and ofc if the others kill the middle spear they can also join in. Which is just sad. Completely wrong positioning but it doesn't matter at all. So i ask why have an addphase at all when you don't even have to do it right? It's like cloud of darkness nowadays you can have 3 players in one circle and they still manage to kill the add no problems, just now in the latest alliance raid which is just hilariously sad.