Quote Originally Posted by Xatsh View Post
I am referring to EXs, anything besides that are very casual in terms of difficulty.
Which is the point I'm trying to make. Stuff is either Hardcore High difficulty or Casual "Everyone can do it." Their is no middle ground.

But with exs

It takes people less then 1 day to kill them every time they are released.
Hardcore players (i.e. the top 10% of the playerbase) are the ones getting those day one clears. Blue Garter cleared SCoB T1-T3 within the first 5 days of patch 2.2, but it is still considered hardcore content. Just because they were completed day one does not mean they are medium difficulty. Lev EX and Thornmarch EX were locked behind Ifrit EX which was locked behind Titan EX. The 10% of the player base that could clear Titan EX were the ones doing Levi EX and Thornmarch EX day one.

You can spam them without cooldowns.

You get guaranteed drops.
Neither of those things make the difficulty of the EX Primals any different than what it is. A single player messing up at the wrong time in any of them can and will cause a wipe.

What makes them hardcore now?
Difficulty and the percentage of players who are completing them or have completed them.