What are your unrealistic expectations for the upcoming Combat Live Letter?

[Supersnow845]

This word for word, describes EX encounters.

It really isn’t, EX tips too heavily towards being savage light in the modern day

The closest thing we have to that sort of description would be ozma

Something harder than the Diablo armament but easier than your general extreme (also I’m not saying this because I’m bad at the game, I’m a savage raider I just don’t think EX is the right description)

[Sjol]

Procs visible as auras on our character so that we don't have to look at the bar all the time. Let me look at my character more.

As someone mentioned putting certain things on the UI overlay, like MNK stances would be a nice QoL benefit, though I'd love to see them reflected in the 3d world as well.

I kind of get tired looking at the little buff and debuff icons. Doom should be highly visible on anyone who has it. If I'm an BRD, MCH or NIN with a sufficient gauge why not show my character as powered up somehow.

Also, I'd love all the split overlays to be merged like BLM is. I don't know why some of them are split and some are merged.

Also, until the netcode is fixed, please get rid of the NIN bunny or make it do something. The number of times I've done the button presses, but not to the satisfaction of the networking gods... grrr

And, no, I don't expect any of that to be fixed/changed.

[Gemina]

It really isn’t, EX tips too heavily towards being savage light in the modern day

The closest thing we have to that sort of description would be ozma

Something harder than the Diablo armament but easier than your general extreme (also I’m not saying this because I’m bad at the game, I’m a savage raider I just don’t think EX is the right description)

Not all EX are created equal. I can agree that mechanics such as enums/partner stacks, multiple heal checks in a small time frame, tether trading, limit cut, and tight enrages might be a bit much for the entry level into more difficult content. There are several encounters off the top of my head that I feel qualify though. Ravana, Sophia, Susano, and Hydaelyn aren't too demanding, but still punishing if you screw up the mechs. Players should have to coordinate and learn basic set ups such as clock spots, light party stacks, and role splits in these encounters, and EX is where it starts.

[SargeTheSeagull]

The fact that so many people are incapable of imagining a hypothetical content whose difficulty is (ON AVERAGE) higher than normal but lower than extreme is downright mind boggling.

[keichirou]

wish it was something like "ohhh we changing combat , to a more action oriented instead of tab targeting" kinda like New genesis or even GW2

hey i can dream....

[HappyHubris]

[Mid-core difficulty]: Especially when it comes to raiding!
A way for casual players to dip into a bit higher difficuiltiy content
w/o it beeing too demanding in both time and effort.
More focus on fun/creative mech!

This is exactly what extremes do. The gap between normal content and extremes leaves almost no room for a new tier.

The fact that so many people are incapable of imagining a hypothetical content whose difficulty is (ON AVERAGE) higher than normal but lower than extreme is downright mind boggling.

It's not that we can't imagine it, it's that it will be incredibly niche. Where are these players who want more difficulty than normal but can't handle extreme content?

[HappyHubris]

-Healers get something to do beyond spamming their 1 keys.
-Less incoming damage that can be dodged. The dance should mitigate damage, not eliminate it.
-Change dances from a memorized sequence to modules that occur with randomness. E.g., if X then Y, not A happens then B, C, and D...
-Severe pruning of skills until every class comfortably fits their rotation in 20-25 buttons. Make timing matter more and bar stuffing matter less.
-Kill and bury the 2 minute meta.
-Eliminate tank sustain in instances.
-Eliminate Bard DOTs in favor of maintaining a self buff or two.

[Supersnow845]

This is exactly what extremes do. The gap between normal content and extremes leaves almost no room for a new tier.


It's not that we can't imagine it, it's that it will be incredibly niche. Where are these players who want more difficulty than normal but can't handle extreme content?

There is 100% room for a tier that sits in the middle

Let’s imagine something that looks like T1 (binding coils turn 1)

A mini boss with mechanics, some interesting trash, then a boss

The mini boss could be something that acts like about the difficulty of a current top end normal raid (something like E8) with damage scaled up a bit to encourage mitigation, you could also add things like shield cheeses and cleanses or interrupts

The trash could look like criterion’s trash with a bit more leeway

The final boss could look something like ozma or the Diablo armament but with an enrage and mechanics that do more damage


So the collective teaches what you need to know about not falling asleep but mistakes of one person don’t spiral as hard as your average extreme, then you can reward gear stronger than casual but weaker than savage

[Sacae]

The fact that so many people are incapable of imagining a hypothetical content whose difficulty is (ON AVERAGE) higher than normal but lower than extreme is downright mind boggling.

At Stormblood launch, a lot of people were calling Shinryu a "baby extreme." It had dps checks that weren't too bad, but kept you on your toes. There was a "soft" enrage. One-shot mechanics. Mechanics where you had to interact with the environment, which changed throughout the fight.

This is the kind of difficulty we should have as a baseline for midcore content. Shinryu/Nidhogg/Ozma/TGC at launch. And then go up incrementally from there.

[Moqi]

The fact that so many people are incapable of imagining a hypothetical content whose difficulty is (ON AVERAGE) higher than normal but lower than extreme is downright mind boggling.

Is Extreme not midcore already? How many levels can there be.