Can we expect time limited battles like the raven, nevermore in 2.0?

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Wooooah, okay wait a minute. This thread is starting to get off track abit with the Casual/Hardcore bullshit again.

From what I've read in this thread. I think only one person is asking for future crap like Darnus(Hard) to be easier. Everyone else is merely asking that the difficulty stays the same but that it would be a lot nicer if they didn't do the limited time offer thing again for instanced battles. Which in my opinion seems fair.

Level with me when I give this story but I'll try to give an example.

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This is, Joe. He's a hardcore gamer but he just recently bought FFXIV last month. Now at the time, Darnus(Hard) did come out but our friend, Hardcore Joe just bought the game so he had to level... and level he did. He shot straight to 50 and got his subs leveled too just so he could be optimal. Now Joe was ready for anything! He smashed through content like nothing. Got his AF, did AV/CC with no trouble. He knew the rules, he knew his setup etc.

However, Joe couldn't do Darnus(Hard) because he had to finish up the main story. He knew this and was like "Yeah, whatever..." By this time there was only like 5 days left before the final save. So Joe went full boar as best as he could to get content done but also remember that Joe worked a full schedule irl, so that cut down on his play time making it so Joe could only play for about 4 hours at a time... maybe 8 or 9 if he was in no life mode. Anyways! Joe finally finished the main scenario going 1/1 and all that other crap. Joe was ready for Darnus(Hard) but this was during the last day, however. So Joe was on crunch time... He sadly had to work for most of that day.

He got home finally and was like "HEY! LET'S GO BEAT DARNUS!" So his party formed, they went in. Now Joe spent a lot of time reading up on Darnus(Hard), so he knew his role in the group and he performed it well along with the rest of his party but something happened!? As they they were on the verge of a 1/1 Victory one of their mages D/Ced causing a few meteors to slip through and cause a wipe... Damn that sucks. Oh well, shit happens, right? Well sadly there was only about 15 minutes left before "Final Save" maint. Their mage never came back so he wasn't able to finish and get his item.

Now was this Joe's fault? Nope. Was this the mages fault? Maybe? but D/Cs happen and are for the most part legit. Joe didn't do anything wrong other than being late to join the game. He was just as hardcore as everyone else... I mean he blazed through all that content in a month, and after the maint. He went after Darnus(Hard) again just to say he did it and guess what? He won it! 1/1 Sadly, he wont have any proof of this in ARR... He'll have his Lodestone Achievement but he really wanted those earrings! ...Welp, too bad! The end.

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TL;DR: Joe was just as hardcore as anybody else. However, do to crappy limited time events, he got screwed over.

Now my opinion on this? Keep content hard as hell but in the future... Don't make crap limited time only.

Will I get the item? You bet I will. Will I like it? Nope. Do I think it's fair that other people should be screwed over do to play time? Nope, I think they deserve the reward as much as anyone else so long as they can learn the strategy and beat the boss.