Current State of End-Game Contents - A Blog Post from A Japanese Player

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Totally agree with Sylkis, glad we're getting back to topic again. This thread is about how fights are eased over time to be more accessible by less "skilled" players.

I know there was a big discussion about skills earlier, but it's all semantics. To me, memorization is a skill, which helps a lot. Another skill that's absolutely required by mechanics based fights is multi-tasking, not only are we jumping rope but we are DPSing/healing/tanking as well, it's easy to forget the next incoming attack when you're juggling multiple tasks. And it doesn't need to be said, that many casual players simply do not have that capacity to multi-task at the level that's required for many fights in the game. If they practiced and practiced maybe, but these are not the type of players (well most) that enjoy being thrown against the brick wall, they will go play something more enjoyable.


Therefore eventually the required level of skill/memorization/multi-tasking needs to decline, and this is only possible by modifying insta-death mechanics in ways Sylkis described so that in the long run gear can make enough of a difference so that failing to dodge a few mechanics can still be recoverable.


Also too many people are failing to grasp the change we are asking for, we are not asking for FFXIV - Easy Mode, we are asking that 2-3+ month old content be eased to a point where players without the time to rehearse the script to perfection can beat it. We are saying that insta-death mechanics are merely balanced to be insta-death now, but not insta-death later. So mechanics should never be guaranteed death, but just so much damage it'd be impossible to survive it when the content is released, the game is largely unchanged for the hardcore players and eventually by the time the casual players reach that content it's easy enough for them.