Does anyone else get disappointed when a fight is easier than expected?

[SpookyGhost]

I'd say Turn 4, but I actually think Turn 4 is the funnest thing in the game. Easy - but fun!

Edit: Oh, I've got one. Pharos Sirius. One shot it the day it came out, heard before that it was super hard, then continued to hear after that it was super hard. Dunno what dungeon everyone else was doing, but PS was pretty easy. Find out a boss can be stunned + long cast bar that causes a huge problem = stun it.

[Zezlar]

I'd say Turn 4, but I actually think Turn 4 is the funnest thing in the game. Easy - but fun!

Edit: Oh, I've got one. Pharos Sirius. One shot it the day it came out, heard before that it was super hard, then continued to hear after that it was super hard. Dunno what dungeon everyone else was doing, but PS was pretty easy. Find out a boss can be stunned + long cast bar that causes a huge problem = stun it.

Yeah, all I heard was how hard this dungeon was. It's really not.

[Muzy]

Yeah, all I heard was how hard this dungeon was. It's really not.

It's because people are all such speshul snowflakes and can't be bothered to pay attention to mechanics, thus making it a hell of a lot harder than it really is, you can easily take a party at the min ilevel and beat it.

[Zfz]

Oh, I've got one. Pharos Sirius.

I think that's the thing that stands out the most: all the difficulty that the devs have designed into this game if from lack of information. A fight may be hard the first few times you do it simply because you hype yourself up and concentrate on the fight in preparation for the unexpected. But after a few times you realize it never changes, or it never change enough to warrant that level of attention anymore and the fights become very boring.

Pharos is a prime example. People who just try to rush the first boss will tell stories about how difficulty it is, but once you tell them adds spawn based on boss HP (probably tanks always notice this kind of mechanism first) and the explosion comes from the debuff (probably healers notice these kinds first), the fight is a pushover all of the sudden.

And Titan series is just the ultimate of this. Those primals are designed specifically so that when people remember the pattern, they could easily beat the fight. And I think that's the problem. The "hard mode", "extreme mode" may all sound like hardcore stuff, but deep down in its core, this game is still designed for the big masses.