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[OliverQ]

Having recently unlocked the EW alliance raids, I'm honestly surprised how easy and undertuned they are. They're awesome raids visually and musically with a few neat mechanics, but they're so easy to face roll and they're so predictable.

More people die to the 2nd boss of the 1st Ivalice and almost everything in the Nier raids than both EW raids combined. In fact, I've seen more people die to the first boss of WoD than anything in the EW raids.

I really hope they add some more difficulty with the 3rd one.

[Rolder50]

Having recently unlocked the EW alliance raids, I'm honestly surprised how easy and undertuned they are. They're awesome raids visually and musically with a few neat mechanics, but they're so easy to face roll and they're so predictable.

More people die to the 2nd boss of the 1st Ivalice and almost everything in the Nier raids than both EW raids combined. In fact, I've seen more people die to the first boss of WoD than anything in the EW raids.

I really hope they add some more difficulty with the 3rd one.

Don't get your hopes up. With how this dev team operates, it's only going to get easier.

[ChrysOCE]

Having recently unlocked the EW alliance raids, I'm honestly surprised how easy and undertuned they are. They're awesome raids visually and musically with a few neat mechanics, but they're so easy to face roll and they're so predictable.

More people die to the 2nd boss of the 1st Ivalice and almost everything in the Nier raids than both EW raids combined. In fact, I've seen more people die to the first boss of WoD than anything in the EW raids.

I really hope they add some more difficulty with the 3rd one.

It will only be (somewhat) difficult in the first week or two. If they would reduce the ilvl cap, you would see more damage going out and more mechanics happening (see The Final Day). You can argue that Aglaia and Euphro are not hard, sure. But, anyone doing these raids today are not experiencing it the same as when they first released. Obviously, some of that is more people used to the mechanics. But a lot of it is just higher gear increasing your DPS and reducing the amount of damage you take. They don't need to make it min ilvl, just have it a tighter ilvl sync. A lot of content would be more challenging, if our gear didn't outstrip the content so much, so quickly.

[ZephyrMenodora]

It will only be (somewhat) difficult in the first week or two. If they would reduce the ilvl cap, you would see more damage going out and more mechanics happening (see The Final Day). You can argue that Aglaia and Euphro are not hard, sure. But, anyone doing these raids today are not experiencing it the same as when they first released. Obviously, some of that is more people used to the mechanics. But a lot of it is just higher gear increasing your DPS and reducing the amount of damage you take. They don't need to make it min ilvl, just have it a tighter ilvl sync. A lot of content would be more challenging, if our gear didn't outstrip the content so much, so quickly.

Was thinking the same thing. Most of the playerbase overgears and knows these raids like the back of their hands by now as current, or nearly current content. Unlocking them now means they are easier than ever, in regards to overgearing and people being well-practiced on current mechanics.

In regards to the 70 and 80's raids, I think party of why they are harder is because people rarely get them in roulettes, meaning they aren't practiced. I think I get the 80s ones like twice a year on my roulettes. Also people use them as another levelling roulette at those levels so people may be on jobs they aren't as good at / not as geared.

[TheMightyMollusk]

I'm still pissed that we didn't get a Bozja duel level difficulty version of the capstone 6.0 duty.

What was all that developer practice even for?

This gave me the thought of Ultimate/Unreal versions of solo duties. Optional, so people can still get through the MSQ, but tuned up for a higher challenge level.

Although, other than that one and the duel with Raubahn back in post-Heavensward, I'm blanking on what else to do with it. Ran'jit, maybe?

[NanaWiloh]

Having recently unlocked the EW alliance raids, I'm honestly surprised how easy and undertuned they are. They're awesome raids visually and musically with a few neat mechanics, but they're so easy to face roll and they're so predictable.

More people die to the 2nd boss of the 1st Ivalice and almost everything in the Nier raids than both EW raids combined. In fact, I've seen more people die to the first boss of WoD than anything in the EW raids.

I really hope they add some more difficulty with the 3rd one.

Their not really undertuned as you are just late to the party. Most people have ran them to death and out gear them. Last time I was in the most current EW alliance(second one) the 2nd boss went down so fast made my first kill of them look slow. As for older raids people have a bad habit of afk running them or just not caring enough to pay attention.

[Shurrikhan]

While doing content later along will make it even easier, let's not pretend that AR2 was threatening even on release day. Ran it twice within the first couple hours of release for a grand total of one wipe.

(And even that was actually recoverable; the tanks just felt it'd be more fun starting it over as less a cluster, since of the 7 to die to back-to-back mistakes near the start, 5 were healers.)

The mechanics were more intuitively telegraphed and the damage less than in previous raids.

[CidHeiral]

You can argue that Aglaia and Euphro are not hard, sure. But, anyone doing these raids today are not experiencing it the same as when they first released.

I did both the day of release and can say unequivocally that Euphrosene was a complete joke even on day one with everyone going in totally blind. Aglaia is a pushover as well but at least it had some mechanics that made you think "hmmm how does this work" for a second. Euph is like the dude responsible for implementing the mechanics put it off until the day before release and then just went "uhhhhh everything cleaves half the room! *send file*"

[ChrysOCE]

While doing content later along will make it even easier, let's not pretend that AR2 was threatening even on release day. Ran it twice within the first couple hours of release for a grand total of one wipe.

(And even that was actually recoverable; the tanks just felt it'd be more fun starting it over as less a cluster, since of the 7 to die to back-to-back mistakes near the start, 5 were healers.)

The mechanics were more intuitively telegraphed and the damage less than in previous raids.

But you still got A wipe

[Shurrikhan]

But you still got A wipe

An intentional one, but yes. Which is more than any of my LS or FC mates saw at its release.