#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[ZephyrMenodora]

XIV is the only MMO I've seen that's so aggressive about bending backwards to cater to less-skilled players vs. actually challenging them to improve and learn, and it's dubious if it's even doing that much good for the player metrics.

I liked being able to offer advice to people complaining about the SB MSQ duties in novice network so they could succeed, but then they just added easy mode so they don't even need to try anymore.

I'm here to support this comment. Throughout this thread we've seen quite a few comments from certain people that they don't think they should encounter any failure or adversity when grouping with unskilled players, because unskilled players exist. Oddly this argument is cyclical - these players will never improve if they have no reason to, no failures they need to overcome, no one pushing them to improve their skills.

An MMO should slowly increase in difficulty as the levels increase, with the theory that people should be developing a skill set as they advance in the game. It's so strange that a good number of XIV players want no difficulty outside of the top 5% of endgame content.

The other day I had an alliance raid complain how "rough" the run was because there were about 5 1st timers undergeared. There were no wipes. Those players died regularly but it didn't cause any more issues than the inconvenience of slower dps and some additional rezzes. But I guess in XIV, succeeding the very first try with unskilled players is nearly an unacceptable challenge. Note if a group actually wipes it's not uncommon to see several people just leave the raid/dungeon, so unused they are to any difficulty.

Maybe there are a large number of players who just love to sleepwalk through content, I guess.

[Galvuu]

I'm here to support this comment. Throughout this thread we've seen quite a few comments from certain people that they don't think they should encounter any failure or adversity when grouping with unskilled players, because unskilled players exist. Oddly this argument is cyclical - these players will never improve if they have no reason to, no failures they need to overcome, no one pushing them to improve their skills.

I actually get a bit sad at this idea that the average XIV player is in a perpetual state of incompetence and cannot handle more than 2 button presses every 30s.
I think we, collectively, should show some faith to the average player. Most people can and will improve, given time and the chance.
While things get a bit more heated/negative in the forums at times, the playerbase is still overall quite welcoming. We were all new and inexperienced once and we slowly learned how to improve at the game.
I'm not saying everyone is gonna be clearing TOP on patch, but I don't buy the doomsaying that if the game had a slight jump in depth and difficulty in the more casual content, people would quite in droves over it.
There might be some initial hesitancy/dissatisfaction from some people, but they'd adjust and we'd all be better for it in the long run.
Most people are better than what's given credit, they just need an environment where that growth can happen (which defo isn't our current casual content).

(So yea, I think some content design and healer changes towards that direction might cause some hiccups for a month or two, but the playerbase would adapt and probably come out better for it, especially the casual side)