#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[OliviaLugria]

Would it really be that bad to let these hypothetical casuals fail sometimes? Let them die once or twice. Maybe have a built-in way to nudge them in the right direction. Force them to learn at least the complete basics. If they wanna play XIV like it's a singleplayer story game, that's fine. But most singleplayer RPGs are way more challenging than this, even on story mode.

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What if the game started kinda easy, but progressively got harder as you got further into the game. Not only that, but if you were struggling with a mechanic or a concept they had some nice in game explanations of what is going on?

[xbahax92]

Follow up on this:

What if the game started kinda easy, but progressively got harder as you got further into the game. Not only that, but if you were struggling with a mechanic or a concept they had some nice in game explanations of what is going on?

It's good that you mentioned this, I saw something similar on the jp thread. As an example, during lv50-60 content, you will surely meet tanks and dps with (leveling) bad gear and inexperience.
But the more you progress and the more you level up to 90, the game gets easier. Not only the healer kit becomes more stacked, but simply we're being overgeared and do less mistakes. (ofcourse it implies casual content, not mandatory endgame stuff)

[PercibelTheren]

Follow up on this:

What if the game started kinda easy, but progressively got harder as you got further into the game. Not only that, but if you were struggling with a mechanic or a concept they had some nice in game explanations of what is going on?

That would be the perfect way to solve this, imo. I understand we need to onboard newbies who have never played an MMO before. You don't see me calling for Sastasha being hard. I'm really happy that reworked old dungeons now showcase some of the mechanics that become common in higher level content. But since there is so much time to get used to them, I think they should progressively get more dangerous with each level.

Again, I'm not asking for MSQ dungeons to be super hard, but forcing at least a little bit of a learning curve on even the most casual players wouldn't be that bad. You really shouldn't get away with going in as a duo into lvl 80+ dungeons where the tank never does AoE and the healer only spams Medica II (I have seen this happen, I was a DPS, it was painful to watch).