Quote Originally Posted by Taranok View Post
Honestly, if you played or remember stormblood fight design, it's the perfect mix of stress-ish free raiding while still being challenging. As a bonus, you can have absolutely wild recoveries that feel absolutely amazing to pull off in that style of raid design. And you can still do it while having hello world, a mechanic substantially harder than TOP's hello world, and feels much more satisfying even on casters.
While I did catch the original Ivalice, I was not raiding back then, at least not in FF14. I was an end-game raider in TERA and BnS..lol. I did do, however, some MINE fights, but it's not the exact Vanilla experience from back then.

Difficulty-wise, so far, I think this tier is nice. Kind of MID, not too easy, not too difficult, not a lot of body checks. I don't think m5s or m6s had any hardcore body checks.