Quote Originally Posted by fumofu View Post
And we are not even talking about savage, which is what people mostly mean when they talk abour raiding. I'll admit, I don't do any savages synced, because I feel absolutely no desire to do content that is even more difficult than ex trials, because many of these are already way too hard for my liking. But I sometimes try unsync savages, and even then I find many of these to be hardly clearable. Let's say p8s. Absolutely terrible fight, but what breaks it completely is Natural Alignment. Did SE made this as a middle finger for players? How you even come up with something so obscene that's so difficult to understand even with guides? Then there's ''basic relativity'' from E12s, hello world from O12s and who knows how many others.

Then another problem is that in every fight there's tons of new mechanics, which makes you feel like you're not really making any progress in this game. I play from 2.4, cleared or at least tried out most of ex trials and even a good amount of savages unsynced and yet everytime I get into new ex trial, it's like I'm a new player, seeing tons of new bs mechanics and thus invalidating all my previous experience. And worse of all, it feels like each expansion fights gets more and more complicated. So, if I myself am strugling so much with it, how can anyone can claim that '' PeOple dOn’t reAliZe hOw eAsy it is to gEt iNto raAdINng iN tHiS gAmE! At last maybe stop trying to deceive new players with false clams and just straight up tell the truth that raiding in this game is extremely gruesome and requiring much skill and dedication and is TOTALLY not for everyone?
If you were trying to blind prog then yea I can see how hello world style mechanics are tough but with guide it's literally just following a set path based on what debuff you start with. There isnt even a need to understand the mechanic, just follow the path and let the mechanic resolve around you.