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

[Kuwagami]

but are simply playing for the joy of playing.

my feeling when I read some pseudo-"hardcore" posts

15% Echo Buff makes Turn 5 faceroll easy. It was solo-tankable (even by some PF groups) before echo, now it's super easy to solo-tank it. How is that living in a dreamworld or prove I run those with a static?

Take a look at actual numbers and come say again that T5 is so faceroll easy. (hint : you can get % of completion for T5 in PS4 achievements. Unless you label PS3/4 players as "bad players", but then I can nothing for you.)

And that is using the DF, it would seem far less likely that out of all the controlled PFs looking for people to clear t5, none of them have cleared it since the start of the game.

Without even judging about EN/JP levels of skill, and solely on the reading of this reddit, you could see why they were able to do it when in NA/EU servers it would be hard :

=> playing at a time when "only good players" are
=> japanese people don't flame you for not going their way (they just leave if they can't stand it), ie less reasons to get the toxic DF groups we can see on NA servers on Coil/Ex primals, ie more chances to complete it even if you are not perfect.

There's a time for socializing, teaching new players how to play, and screwing around. End game raiding is time for seriousface. Instead of learning to step it up just a little bit, people seem to be learning to expect to have their hand held and the content cleared for them.

while it may be true for some, you can't expect to fix people childish behavior by acting in a childish way.

That's why I always leave any duty which I know I won't enjoy : people flaming, not even trying (by that I mean people saying : "OK we wiped one on titan HM, gonna wipe 4 more times to carry all these noobs". Well, ok, without me guys.) or more generally people who can't enjoy playing.