The Enormous Gap Between Casual and Hardcore Content

[Colt47]

The one big challenge that end game fights have right now is that the perception of difficulty really falls apart when people take a week off and go at it for 8 hour days. The reason that savage seems so hard to most people is that they only can dedicate so many hours in a day to it, and unfortunately people forget mechanics and what not between the attempts, alongside having to deal with others not necessarily being up to speed and only having limited hours. So what gets thought of as difficulty is really just how inconsistent people are. People do not understand just how much hand holding the developers do in normal mode fights and even extreme mode. A few flashing visuals can save hours of deaths and retries. Having no time limit on the fight means people can be under performers on damage and still clear content. The real reason it takes so long for some people to clear savage is that it requires way more time than people seem to want to put into it.

[RitsukoSonoda]

IMO the problem is the lazy entitled players that claim to be standard of the casual player base demanding everything they don't see as "Hardcore" be dumbed down so any rewards associated with it are basically just handed to them like a participation award. The irony is that they'll spend ridiculous amounts of time and effort combing through online resources like web md and fabricating excuses and other examples of oral diarrhea when it would have been easier and faster to actually pay attention and play the game so they could learn how the game works.

[Bonoki]

Casuals and Hardcore. The war eternal.

[Rolder50]

I just want more stuff that is reasonably challenging without requiring me to find a static and schedule time out of my week to do. That's all.

[Supersnow845]

Casuals and Hardcore. The war eternal.

I will never forgive zurvan for how badly that line is voice acted

It actively makes me not want to do zurvan

[Absimiliard]

It's all just keyboard-DDR anyway.

[EgilTheStressedMage]

It's all just keyboard-DDR anyway.

Tell that to the healers who let us wipe to Abyssal Nox 1 in our farm party.

[Absimiliard]

Tell that to the healers who let us wipe to Abyssal Nox 1 in our farm party.

Have you tried recruiting healers that don't consider paste a valid food group?

[EgilTheStressedMage]

Have you tried recruiting healers that don't consider paste a valid food group?

They leave after one easy clear and I never see them again.

[Bibine_Bine]

You're just simply wrong when it comes to your classification of "casual" content.
Anything past P5 (except P11), The Mothercrystal, The Voidcast Dais, The Final Day, The Dead Ends, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, to name a few.
Most of those are at least midcore by your own definitions.