I may be done.

[Metaphasic]

I got the game about a month ago and have had tremendous fun. But, I may be done. I'm older and retired, I've had two strokes, and my reflexes are shot. I've been trying for a couple of days now to get past the Duty where you fight as Wuk. I cannot do it. Even on Very Easy, I die before I get Bakool's health down even a teensy bit. Since it is required, and I cannot get help from a group, I'm stuck.

I watched a ton of videos and read plenty of guides. Mechanically, I understand what to do. It's a mental and physical skill level issue. I hate that I put this much time into something and didn't get to see it through, but that's life.

*waves farewell*

EDIT FOR THOSE NOTICING THE MSQ SKIP:

This is my second account. I lost access to my first one. This was my first one: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...cter/44813836/
I do know my class and many others, as I've at least tried most of them.

[Hyperia]

Try contacting a GM in game and see if they can make an exception for you and skip that solo instance on medical grounds.

[Exmo]

As sometime said in your other thread, Very Easy is bugged. Most people find it harder than Easy.

Try it on Easy and see if that's more forgiving.

[Metaphasic]

I did. Admittedly, I lasted longer. But still died before I even got him 10% down. At my diminished level, I merely can't do it. It's as simple as that. I put in an in-game GM request to skip it. So, I check back every once in a while to see what happens.

[MAJRIS]

I had the impression than Ranjit fight was much worse in shadowbringers than Bakool.

[Kytrin]

I got the game about a month ago and have had tremendous fun. But, I may be done. I'm older and retired, I've had two strokes, and my reflexes are shot. I've been trying for a couple of days now to get past the Duty where you fight as Wuk. I cannot do it. Even on Very Easy, I die before I get Bakool's health down even a teensy bit. Since it is required, and I cannot get help from a group, I'm stuck.

I watched a ton of videos and read plenty of guides. Mechanically, I understand what to do. It's a mental and physical skill level issue. I hate that I put this much time into something and didn't get to see it through, but that's life.

*waves farewell*

I'm so sorry that's happening to you! Definitely talk to the GMs about it and see if they can make an exception or something. They made a lot of the general expansion elements too hard for older or less adept players (I can't get through any of the dungeons using Trusts), but I doubt they intended to actually lock people out of content so they may be able to mark that quest as complete for you and drop you into the cutscene.

[aiqa]

Level WAR or PLD to get a real easy mode.

This would also open up a few more endgame content options for you. Since all normal mode trials and raids you cna just let the other tank do the actual tanking, and you can play like a DPS that can take far more hits. There are very few normal mode fights with significant demands for off tanks.

[Metaphasic]

Level WAR or PLD to get a real easy mode.

This would also open up a few more endgame content options for you. Since all normal mode trials and raids you cna just let the other tank do the actual tanking, and you can play like a DPS that can take far more hits. There are very few normal mode fights with significant demands for off tanks.

Personal class isn't the issue. In the MSQ solo duty I'm having problem in, you do it as Wuk Lamat. I doub't I'd have ANY issues as my actual class.

[Amarande]

Interesting that they would let something like "very easy" being harder slip through like that

(And it's not encouraging for the future either because duty NPCs have indeed already proven to have become an issue sometimes after expansion rebalances: I'm still remembering at least one sprout struggling with a Shadowbringers role quest because the NPC simply wasn't durable enough for the mechanics, and since it was not the Healer role quests, nothing you can do to alter the situation from the player end in that case ...)

At this point there is a very consistent vibe though, that SE is throwing their charter fan base under the bus - I am beginning to lose count of the number of issues that older players and those with disabilities who used to be a very strong cohort in this game that feel to some or other degree alienated by SE (while conspicuously Blizzard has been making leaps and bounds towards currying our subs). It manifests in anything from a withdrawal from Dawntrail content (a mindset that I've seen in the past with MMO xpacs and put as "hey, thanks for the ten extra levels to stomp the content we already have") to ultimately abandoning the game entirely, sometimes even while part of communities we actually enjoy the company of.

It seems to pretty neatly explain why Endwalker's scale was cut back (it was pretty well accepted that EW was supposed to have been two full expansions rather than being compressed into just a leveling MSQ) - rush to have the Myth Arc over with so that people who came for that story could still finish it before pivoting to a difficulty and pacing balance no longer designed for most of the 2.0-6.0 core audience (keeping in mind Pandemonium is often considered harder than Arcadion, it didn't start with DT).

I'm not sure why they think this is a good idea, or even good business, either ...

[Jeeqbit]

I've tried to think of solutions here but I can't really think of any that you haven't tried, because everything you've said is reasonable (that it's hard to react having had strokes and such).

You could potentially watch someone else play through Dawntrail (on YouTube or Twitch). This is what I do when I am unable to play (such as a PC breaking down).

When 8.0 releases in 2027, you'll be able to buy an MSQ skip so you can begin the 8.0 story, bypassing this fight, but I'm aware that's a while away.