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

[MageBlack]

I think the biggest part of the "problem" is going to be solved with 3.0 in the way they are doing Alexander with 2 modes. One mode is a normal mode for those wanting to just experience the story content then there will be a hard mode for the hardcore endgamers looking for BiS gear and a greater challenge. The reason there are so many "bad's" in coil is there are people just wanting to experience the story part of it but cant. I am one of them. I cant get a full premade static party to run this but I can do it bit by bit on my own, except players have no patience.

I do agree that for hard mode there should be fewer instakill mechanics, I wasnt on that side of the fence before but after doing the majority of the game now, I see why this is a kind of cop-out. They arent a terrible tactic but it shouldnt be the only thing in the bag of tricks. But they are growing the game and therefore I'm sure they will grow the bag of tricks.

EDIT:
Also, why necro this? Maybe I'll necro one of my complaint threads that is still vaguely valid.

[Ibi]

I think the biggest part of the "problem" is going to be solved with 3.0 in the way they are doing Alexander with 2 modes. One mode is a normal mode for those wanting to just experience the story content then there will be a hard mode for the hardcore endgamers looking for BiS gear and a greater challenge. The reason there are so many "bad's" in coil is there are people just wanting to experience the story part of it but cant. I am one of them. I cant get a full premade static party to run this but I can do it bit by bit on my own, except players have no patience.

Yoshi-P has said that the story version will be equivalent difficulty to Coil with echo.

There are huge swathes of the player base who still can't clear T5 or T9, even with 20% echo and gear 20-40 item levels above what was intended, so unless they also make some fundamental changes to their encounter design strategies, the volume of complaints may not decrease that much.

[kirk]

Yoshi-P has said that the story version will be equivalent difficulty to Coil with echo.

There are huge swathes of the player base who still can't clear T5 or T9, even with 20% echo and gear 20-40 item levels above what was intended, so unless they also make some fundamental changes to their encounter design strategies, the volume of complaints may not decrease that much.

Pretty much this even with Echo/ 3.0 Alexander nm people will stay say "it's to hard" please nerf it so maybe add in a I win button