Difficulty of normal content.

[ChidoriYumitori]

Hiya, I'd like to ask a few questions to clarify here. I don't do much Savage content - I'd probably be called a casual, but it seems we had different experiences so I'd like to understand how you see it.

The problem with the difficulty on normal fights as I see it is:
-Use and abuse of non standard telegraphs.

What would you call non-standard here that also isn't intuitive? Can you provide examples?

-Nasty mechanic overlaps, stuff you would see on extreme and harder fights.

I'm not sure how this is the case; we already had significant overlapping mechanics as early as Heavensward in normal content, and 'wait in last move in first' AoE patterns in Stormblood.

-Mechs resolving too quickly for the mental capacity they demand to process.

Could you provide examples again? There's a couple that I think might apply but I want to know if we're on the same page.

-One too many "catch this!" mech (mechs that have you running around like headless chicken evading seemingly random patterns).

The only one I can remember here is the one from M2, which does admittedly catch me up pretty bad, but it's also the only one I can actually recall feeling random; others (like the seemingly random AoEs from the final boss or M3 are player-targeted and thus psuedo-random.)

Again, I'm not trying to attack, I'm trying to understand where the issues are - not just in general but specifics so it's easier to reference and address.