Difficulty of normal content.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

Finally I think that people that thrive with difficulty (the ones that demand harder content) already have extremes, savages, ultimate, criterion dungeons, and more (Yoshi-p is even touting of savage alliances), this people is eating really, really good. Do they need to take normal content too? Can casual players have something easy-ish to play? Please?

This is the endgame content for casuals/midcore player base. It's not supposed to be on par to the dungeons and it's no where near on par to extremes/savage/ultimate. But it does fit nicely in the middle where it should be.

I have MS Multiple sclerosis and my hands tremor and shake often. Dawntrail is the first expansion that makes me want to quit. The ramped up difficulty results in me chain dying or unable to do some of the new normal content. I have been priced out of this game. I had to take an extra dose of meds trying to complete alexandria dungeon boss 1.
If housing auto demolition wasn't a thing i would unsubscribe right this minute. I don't like dawntrail for the most part it sucks the msq being the worst. picto and viper are ok.

I'm sorry but the game has never been touted as a game that is disability friendly. What you're asking for is basically a total rebuild of the game. Could they add stuff in to combat this sure, but not at the expense of people who arent living with X disability.

So a lot of the people love the content as-is, and that's great. It's designed well, so it should work well, right?

But Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. decided to make a game engine that cannot deal with fast or overlapping mechanics. What they gave us instead is "snapshotting". So even if you successfully dodge an attack, the servers (aka a thousand forum posters in a trench coat) will say that you didn't, and give you a vuln stack anyway. It's one of the iconic hallmarks of Square Enix design, and because of that, it gets a ton of praise online. And you like it too, because you just need to "get gud" and "you've been playing for 100 levels anyway". What Square Enix did to "increase the difficulty" in Dawntrail content was simply add more mechanics. Think like WoW but more cool and hip. If the game was more responsive, people wouldn't complain as much about the game being hard. But that's not a good thing, it needs to be harder for the sake of it. And Square Enix found out a very smart way to do it!

See, the unique thing about "video" games is that the video is supposed to be important. So when you press a button, it shows up on the screen. But the "new" style of video games (pioneered by Dark Souls, mastered by FFXIV) is where your actions do not correspond with the video. And the key to beating the game is to do exactly what you shouldn't do. So in these new raids, you move in the "bad" zone when it's still bad but a second before not being bad. And if you can't do it? Get gud! 100 levels! The old masters of video games (1970s-2010s) couldn't handle the sheer power of "shapshotting". Only a company as rich and prestigious--excuse me, a small indie company--can come up with this ingenious system.

Again this isn't an issue that everyone is having and all players shouldnt be punished with easier content because of it. What you should be requesting in a thread is better infrastructure for your region.

[Astronema]

This is the endgame content for casuals/midcore player base. It's not supposed to be on par to the dungeons and it's no where near on par to extremes/savage/ultimate. But it does fit nicely in the middle where it should be.



I'm sorry but the game has never been touted as a game that is disability friendly. What you're asking for is basically a total rebuild of the game. Could they add stuff in to combat this sure, but not at the expense of people who arent living with X disability.



Again this isn't an issue that everyone is having and all players shouldnt be punished with easier content because of it. What you should be requesting in a thread is better infrastructure for your region.

What a pompous arrogant elitist attitude you have putting words into others mouths.. I've never had such problems with playing this game before dawntrail normals. The game is meant to be for everyone not elitist pricks that went everything set so hard it can be used to filter out players. How greedy are you when you already have savages?

[Masekase_Hurricane]

What a pompous arrogant elitist attitude you have putting words into others mouths.. I've never had such problems with playing this game before dawntrail normals. The game is meant to be for everyone not elitist pricks that went everything set so hard it can be used to filter out players. How greedy are you when you already have savages?

LOL I dont play savages and dont do extremes so nice try. The dungeons are no more harder than Aurum Vale on release or any of the other Expert dungeons (excluding Endwalker....)

P.s when you lower yourself to name calling you've lost the argument :P

how when the mechanics and this dot does literally so much damage that people will end up dead before i can actually stop moving long enough to heal them? hell, the mechanic snapshots so fast you don't even have time to instant cast unless you have like a mmo mouse and can keybind everything...

There is visual clues like the cast bar, the boss/mob models and text in the chat. If youre waiting for the move to go off then it's too late to move.

[Volgia]

What a pompous arrogant elitist attitude you have putting words into others mouths.. I've never had such problems with playing this game before dawntrail normals. The game is meant to be for everyone not elitist pricks that went everything set so hard it can be used to filter out players. How greedy are you when you already have savages?

Sorry but to be precise what is that you are asking of Dawntrail?

[chozobo]

What a pompous arrogant elitist attitude you have putting words into others mouths.. I've never had such problems with playing this game before dawntrail normals. The game is meant to be for everyone not elitist pricks that went everything set so hard it can be used to filter out players. How greedy are you when you already have savages?

Yeah and it's level 100 normals lol. The average andy is doing fine. This is literally NOWHERE near Savage or Extreme level. You can try using your eyes by now, you've had 5 expansions to try and do so. Learning to read castbars and keep an eye on boss animations may also be beneficial if you're struggling. But don't go calling everyone "Elitist" because YOU are struggling.

[Mooserocka33]

The one with an attitude is you. Asking everyone to play around what you want is kinda an awful attitude.

[LilithKha]

What a pompous arrogant elitist attitude you have putting words into others mouths.. I've never had such problems with playing this game before dawntrail normals. The game is meant to be for everyone not elitist pricks that went everything set so hard it can be used to filter out players. How greedy are you when you already have savages?

What a pompous arrogant toxic casual you are, expecting everyone else who plays this game to have a worse time because you, personally, got filtered. I have run into precisely zero players in the numerous runs of Arcadion I've done with friends who are moaning about the difficulty, everyone is having a blast even when they're hitting the floor constantly because it's fun, engaging content. Because it makes you use your braincells and hit your mitigation and heal buttons so you don't die. You know, like a video game is supposed to. I am sorry that you got filtered and have nothing better to do than complain on the forums but the rest of the community will be having fun in the new content.