The new 24 man alliance raids are a disappointment (mechanic wise)

[Arkzeraaaa]

Dungeons and normal raids are getting easier and easier while fights like Ultimates get harder and harder.
I don't know if I like how they are making the gap between casual and hardcore bigger and bigger.

DSR was a hard but extremelly fun fight, I felt pride when got my first clear.
Omega was a hard for the sake of being hard, I felt free from a dumb prison on my first clear.
XIV Raid Dev team is clearly losing sight of what made theses encounters awesome, the lack of good fights on Pandaemonium was a yellow flag about how they will approach on 7.0.

Nobody enjoys wipping 10 times in the same boss on a 24 man raid , those in fact are for story - lore content. It's suppose to be easy and move on.

The same way nobody enjoys clearing a fight that you know its basically impossible to get a wipe bcz its made to not get a wipe by design. Ivallice and NieR raid series are the perfect example on how to make an easy fight with enjoyable mechanics.

[Elkanah]

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That's a bummer. Im sorry! Hopefully wont be an issue a second time. I sold my pc and built a new one (from gtx 960 to 3070 TI) and was able to pull everything back up (as well as on my ps5 when i bought one last year). Mightve been a glitch in the matrix :l

[ReynTime]

It's not even simply the fact it's "too easy". What is supposed to set alliances apart are those types of mechanics that are specific to alliance raid fights. So I'm going to use that word that some people seem to hate.

This is lazy ass fight design.

Between this and the mediocre writing of 6.X I don't think CUB3 did a good job teaching the new staff at all.

[Renalt]

This might be a reason...


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[NanaWiloh]

No 24 man has ever been hard. Its lazy, incompetent and unaware players that make 24 mans seems hard.

[Johaandr]

These 24 man raids of this Expansions have been so bad that ive been sleeping thru them.
I DONT CARE for how casual friendly its suppose to be, and dont pull up "bUt thEre iS SavAge" savages of this expac has been boring aswell.

I miss people dying to some stupid things. I remember when Weeping City first came out there were people dying to that poison doom puddles alot even thru out when dun scaith came. I miss to struggle in a casual content.

[Gullis]

music reminded me too much of mario kart

[ReynTime]

This might be a reason...


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Yoshida's "every content should be for everyone" mentality is going to kill this game in the long term.

[Remember_The_Name]

From the JP interview:

"The last Alliance Raid might be stronger than usual this time"

Freaking LMAO. For the third time this expansion I ask myself "Where is the promised Return to Ivalice" level of difficulty?

And this raid is only gonna get so much easier with people learning the super predictable patterns and getting 660 gear.

If you want harder content go play ultimate or unsub thats what the director said and the community agreed.

Have you heard anything about so-called "midcore" content? The one this game severely lacking?

I feel so sorry for players who think that solving more than 1 mechanic every 30 seconds is considered Ultimate level of difficulty

Cidolfus Orlandeau, you will be remembered. It is only gonna get worse in the future.

[ForteNightshade]

Thaleia continues Endwalker's trend of being all spectacle and little substance. It's undeniably beautiful, just like Europhsyne and Agalia before it but once again the mechanics are incredibly basic and/ore predictable. Thaliak almost the entire fight in tutorial mode. When it looks like things are about to finally pick up, he's at 20%. Llymlaen is good if only because of her knockback gimmick. I do most of her mechanics but once again everything is ridiculously undertuned. I survived getting hit by both her serpent charges on Summoner. Why am I going to care about mechanics if they're so non-threatening? Oschon is fine but that's mostly due to visual flair. I love how the AoEs move, and his second phase is decent enough. Unfortunately, they don't do enough with him to make a showcase but he's still fine.

Which leaves Eulogia. I absolutely love the concept but yet again it feels entirely underbanked. I was legit annoyed at how underwhelming the initial portion of the fight was. Thankfully, it picks up significantly once the Twelve gimmicks are brought back... only to fall short because they play it safe. Every gimmick is telegraphed long in advance to the point you'd have to be asleep to miss most of them. Worse yet, they pick really odd choices for ability callbacks. Who thought Byregot's knockback jump was a defining mechanic? On the whole, I still enjoyed the fight but more in the way I enjoy fast food. It's good... when you're in the mood but it's hardly anything special.