Hard Mode {Found It}

[AlexiaKidd]

While I see your point in that you can turn off easy mode and fight tougher things I fully agree with Renta in saying the problem is there is no reward for doing so. If the rewards were greater then I would be all over it. I also fall into the bracket of what is most efficient SP wise mainly because most of our LS are NA players and I live in the UK so when we do leve runs it is usually very late for me so the only reward I get for turning up the stars so mobs are super hard is that I get to bed later and am more tired for work in the morning ^^

[Synthesis]

This is more challengeable than FFXIV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D6jMRuqekU

[Platinumstorm]

HP/damage/accuracy don't make something hard. They make it tedious.

Difficulty comes from mechanics.

[Dyne]

HP/damage/accuracy don't make something hard. They make it tedious.

Difficulty comes from mechanics.

Why don't you go ahead and define "Hard" and "Mechanics"?

[Eekiki]

Why don't you go ahead and define "Hard" and "Mechanics"?

Must....resist.......too many....dirty...jokes....AUUGH!!

[Dyne]

Must....resist.......too many....dirty...jokes....AUUGH!!

Wuss. And I thought you were hardcore lol.

[Dyne]

HP/damage/accuracy don't make something hard. They make it tedious.

Difficulty comes from mechanics.

Pretty sure anything hard is automatically tedious. However, not everything tedious is hard. I wouldn't call fighting a super saiyin, "tedious". I wouldn't call going up against Manny Pacqiuao or George St. Pierre "Tedious".

[quantumsaint]

And people said Gath's thread served no purpose.

[Richard]

And people said Gath's thread served no purpose.

That's because it DIDN'T serve a purpose other than to advance the epeen that he so desperately needs to survive in life. Origamikitsune is offering his own thoughts on how to make the game more enjoyable for those who think its too easy, not saying "hey look what I did, I'm better than you, prove me wrong with a video or gtfo".

There are most definitely hard things to do in this game. We've seen Kaeko solo all the Top 5 NMs. Every mob in the game sans maybe the Lv.99 Qikiroon Mercs have been killed. People have leveled fishing not using bots or grade 10 waters. (lol)

But is it really hard? Or is it more of an endurance challenge or finding cheesy game mechanics to use? Throwing multiple lancers to stunlock mobs or throwing multiple thaumaturges to cheese mitigate huge amounts of damage doesn't necessarily make me feel like this game is a challenge and I shouldn't have to be forced to low man things to give me that rush. If I want to play with 8 of my friends and find something hard I should have that option just as much as someone who has 8 friends who wants a more casual and relaxed experience should have that option.

I hope SE takes this into account in the future so that both sides of the board can be catered to w/o having to sacrifice something in return to get what we want.

[Kaeko]

Every mob in the game sans maybe the Lv.99 Qikiroon Mercs have been killed.

Here are some videos of "interesting" solos if the OP is interested in player-made challenges. Including a solo of that Lv99 Qiqirn Mercenary someone mentioned. Solos were done by either myself or another player on my server Roi Beoulve.

Lv99 Qiqirn Mercenary by Lv50 GLA
Lv75 Widowmaker by Lv50 GLA
Lv70 Ogre by Lv50 GLA

Lv91 Rainbow Basilisk by Lv50 ARC

Uraeus by Lv50 THM
Great Buffalo by Lv50 THM
Elder Mosshorn by Lv50 THM
Dodore (Un-nerfed Version) by Lv50 THM
Haughtpox Bloatbilly (Un-nerfed version) by Lv50 THM
Tarbh Uisge by Lv50 THM

There are many aspects of the current XIV battle system which are "broken" and make these solos possible (some of them with relative ease). Just to list a few of the really big ones:
(1) Aegis Boon and Deflection being broken (Aegis Boon at least a glitch)
(2) dLVL-ignoring attacks (Bloodletter, DoTs, Barbs) being very strong on high level mobs
(3) The "return to territory" mechanic being extremely abusable

To add a couple which I'm sure you've seen from these group kills:
(4) The fact cures generate almost/no enmity.
(5) Twisting Vice being extremely overpowered as a TP-control strategy

Hopefully many of these mechanics will be changed (in as little as a week from now). I think it's fun to challenge yourself or you group, but as others have mentioned, there is little reward for exceling beyond maybe farming the NMs solo/low man for selling right now. And with all due respect to the players that posted the Lv87 Ogre video in the thread that got locked, there is no mob challenge that truly requires anything beyond 2, maybe 3 players in this game currently, although that shouldn't diminish their own sense of accomplishment.