I thought the solo duties were frustrating...

[Mawlzy]

Solo duties also have “very easy” mode. At that point your natural regen is overtaking damage dealt even if you chase AOE’s and the NPC’s can solo the fight. You literally have to try to die in very easy mode

And the bar is only getting returned to what it was basically before EW, EW is the anomaly here that asked literally zero from the player. You also have to balance the fact that EW’s casual content was almost universally derided for being too easy. Is it worth blocking the small cohort of people who are blocked from EW->DT difficulty to increase satisfaction amongst other players?

This is completely false. See the thread on the Quests board - Taking A Stand.

Players who like harder content have plenty of options. Indeed it seems they are catered to almost exclusively.

[Supersnow845]

This is completely false. See the thread on the Quests board - Taking A Stand.

Players who like harder content have plenty of options. Indeed it seems they are catered to almost exclusively.

Nobody on that thread will explain why they are struggling. They are just like “ITS TOO HARD IM BEATING MY HEAD AGAINST THE WALL” then when people ask “can you explain what you are struggling with everyone goes silent till a little while later someone goes “ITS TOO HARD”

Tell us what’s too hard about it because it genuinely could be a fundamental misunderstanding of how that solo duty works because it’s basically the only example of one that disables natural regen to make you use wuk lamat’s lb as a healing tool. And it’s likely BUGGED so it barely even counts as an example either

Still the point broadly applies, if you can’t do very easy mode you (in the nicest way possible) don’t understand how the play the game and at some point the game needs to wall you. A game doesn’t function without some skill checks especially since you can enter group content.

And you misinterpreted “wants anything harder than EW casual content” as “hardcore playerbase”

[Mawlzy]

Nobody on that thread will explain why they are struggling. They are just like “ITS TOO HARD IM BEATING MY HEAD AGAINST THE WALL” then when people ask “can you explain what you are struggling with everyone goes silent till a little while later someone goes “ITS TOO HARD”

Tell us what’s too hard about it because it genuinely could be a fundamental misunderstanding of how that solo duty works because it’s basically the only example of one that disables natural regen to make you use wuk lamat’s lb as a healing tool. And it’s likely BUGGED so it barely even counts as an example either

Still the point broadly applies, if you can’t do very easy mode you (in the nicest way possible) don’t understand how the play the game and at some point the game needs to wall you. A game doesn’t function without some skill checks especially since you can enter group content.

And you misinterpreted “wants anything harder than EW casual content” as “hardcore playerbase”

I have cleared it. The House Mother of my FC has not. She knows precisely what to do, and cannot do it fast enough, probably because very easy mode is borked.

As to the general point, hundreds of people complain that the increasing difficulty in MSQ content is driving them from the game, and people like you come up with this nonsense that standards have to be applied. Elitist drivel.

[Arohk]

Solo duties are amongst the easiest battle content in the game, if you struggle with those, you should really think about what you are doing wrong to fail so spectacularly.
Maybe consider playing a tank, then it doesnt even matter much if you get hit or not.

[Mawlzy]

Solo duties are amongst the easiest battle content in the game, if you struggle with those, you should really think about what you are doing wrong to fail so spectacularly.
Maybe consider playing a tank, then it doesnt even matter much if you get hit or not.

The solo duty in question involves playing as Wuk Lamat.

[Supersnow845]

I have cleared it. The House Mother of my FC has not. She knows precisely what to do, and cannot do it fast enough, probably because very easy mode is borked.

As to the general point, hundreds of people complain that the increasing difficulty in MSQ content is driving them from the game, and people like you come up with this nonsense that standards have to be applied. Elitist drivel.

Yes and “hundreds of people” are happy that current endgame casual content doesn’t put them to sleep, who’s the more important group here? Unless you think myths was more well liked than juneo

If you can’t clear a solo duty and can’t articulate why you can’t clear it (as many people in that thread can’t) you fundamentally don’t understand the game well enough to be freely allowed to enter capped content (think your actions affect everyone here) and if you can articulate it and it’s because of a disability then I’m genuinely sorry for your condition. But on the other hand this is a cooperative MMO game, if you are being walled by this is this truly the game for you? Would you be happy to be granted an instant skip to this duty if it applied a ban on your character from doing group content till you cleared it? If not why is it fair to queue with other people?

Again this affects everyone and many many people are unhappy with the state EW’s casual content drove the game towards

[Arohk]

The solo duty in question involves playing as Wuk Lamat.

huh? she got like 4 or 5 buttons, and you are overwhelmed by that?

have you considered watching a video and see what you are doing wrong?

i personaly am not a big fan of these kind of battles, where you control another character. But i always look at the skills and read the tooltips before i jump into battle, maybe you dont? The only one i failed was the Hien VS Zenos batle, because i actually tried to beat Zenos, which didn't work obviously.

[Mawlzy]

Yes and “hundreds of people” are happy that current endgame casual content doesn’t put them to sleep, who’s the more important group here? Unless you think myths was more well liked than juneo

If you can’t clear a solo duty and can’t articulate why you can’t clear it (as many people in that thread can’t) you fundamentally don’t understand the game well enough to be freely allowed to enter capped content (think your actions affect everyone here) and if you can articulate it and it’s because of a disability then I’m genuinely sorry for your condition. But on the other hand this is a cooperative MMO game, if you are being walled by this is this truly the game for you? Would you be happy to be granted an instant skip to this duty if it applied a ban on your character from doing group content till you cleared it? If not why is it fair to queue with other people?

Again this affects everyone and many many people are unhappy with the state EW’s casual content drove the game towards

Okay we're now talking about things that matter.

Being able to clear this solo duty has very little to do with one's competence to engage in group content. What is it actually measuring? Ping? As I have said, my friend has cleared everything through 90, usually with duty support. She plays a couple of jobs well enough not to be a drain when playing with others.

I completely agree there's a problem that many people at level 100 don't understand the basics of their job. They therefore have a negative impact when engaging in group content. But gating through duties is not the way to solve the issue. And (somewhat orthogonally) simply making dungeons, trials and raids faster with the same monotonous DDR philosophy is driving some people from the game because it is boring combat design, while clipping off older people due purely to the increasing speed. Something that is massively magnified by bad ping which in turn is an accident of geography.

Here's an idea. You will likely agree that in leveling dungeons, it is the expectation of the player base that tanks pull W2W. Where does one learn this? Should this not be gated? I'd suggest the obvious place to gate ability is in job/role quests. If someone cannot play tank in the way the players expect, they are prevented from doing through a role quest. They either learn or they play another job. Same applies to healers and dps.

The problem at the moment is that bizarre and irrelevant solo duties are gating people from the MSQ for no good reason.

[Mawlzy]

huh? she got like 4 or 5 buttons, and you are overwhelmed by that?

have you considered watching a video and see what you are doing wrong?

i personaly am not a big fan of these kind of battles, where you control another character. But i always look at the skills and read the tooltips before i jump into battle, maybe you dont? The only one i failed was the Hien VS Zenos batle, because i actually tried to beat Zenos, which didn't work obviously.

Honey: 1. If you'd bother reading my posts you'd see I've cleared it.

2. Your signature tells me I do not wish to speak to you.

[Arohk]

2. Your signature tells me I do not wish to speak to you.

Because i have too much experience about the game i guess?