Absence of end-game content : the downfall of every MMO.

[zdub303]

Number of bosses isn't a meaningful statistic (Also, people are getting it wrong, as ADS is also in turn 1; technically turn 2 is actually 2-5 mini boss fights in addition to the actual main boss- only a couple of the MC bosses are anywhere on the order of any of Coil's bosses)

FFXIV's dungeons don't feel as substantial only because they don't have anywhere near the amount of trash mobs that Wow dungeons have. Major encounters are a larger portion of the dungeon experience.

So I haven't been to turn 4 yet (raid group ran out of time last weekend) but my group (with two pugs no less) was able to do turns 1 and 2 in about 2 hours with 6 of us brand new to the instance. I would say anything before turn 4 is nowhere near as difficult as MC or Onyxia were at release.

[Fanelan]

Wow introduced new ways to fight bosses. Don't stand in this, dodge this, dance around the boss arena. When WoW came out, this was a new concept and everyone who played had to learn. Eventually, people got used to the mechanics and they became the new way to fight bosses. Now, these mechanics have been around for almost 10 years now, a lot of us are used to them, and this game employs a lot of them. It doesn't add anything super new, the fights just have little room for error.

Saying T1/T2 is easier than MC is a skewed statement due to the fact that we (as gamers) have had 10 years to get used to the mechanics most boss fights use. It's not a sense of the game being easier, but us being smarter. We know to dodge shit, we know how to figure out mechanics, and we also know how to youtube a lot of fights so we can watch successful people do them. We've adapted so the comparison of MC/Onyxia to Coil is pretty skewed.