It's about time to add Coil story mode, isn't it ?

[Moomba33]

I personally don't believe any story content should be locked behind extremely difficult fights.
I'm fine with those fights existing for the challenge and loot, but to me the story should be for everyone.

Of course SE is free to design the game the way they wish. If they intend for the coil story to only be experienced by a few than that's the way it is, though to me the addition of echo suggests they do want more people to clear these fights eventually.
I agree with the post a few pages back that said it would be better to have separate story modes and no echo on the normal versions to help preserve their challenge.

[Shioban]

I personally don't believe any story content should be locked behind extremely difficult fights.

[Marker goes above your head] > [Move Under Boss] > [Different Coloured Marker Appears above head] > [Move ontop of other players]
[Another different marker appears above your head] > [Run to avoid dying] > [Boss uses one cast-bar telegraphed from the moon] > [Move to avoid dying]

These are not difficult mechanics.


However, let's fix the story element then!


Let's make coil a mindless zerg with each boss being a white box, in a white room.

Each new white box has new mechanics, including any adds that will also be white boxes.



We might expand on the colours in the future to keep it interesting, but god forbid that there should be an interesting story/design that Sunny Susan who plays for 1 hour a day when she isn't looking after he kids, who can't put 2 hours a week into doing coil might miss out on!

"IF ONLY THERE WAS A WAY FOR SUSAN TO SEE IT. OH WAIT, SHE CAN." People have uploaded EVERY cutscene, the only thing you are missing is the fight. THAT IS IT.

[scarebearz]

[Marker goes above your head] > [Move Under Boss] > [Different Coloured Marker Appears above head] > [Move ontop of other players]
[Another different marker appears above your head] > [Run to avoid dying] > [Boss uses one cast-bar telegraphed from the moon] > [Move to avoid dying]

These are not difficult mechanics.

Simple, very very simple, I'm sure as it's this easy your first T5 kill only took your static a few trys then?

The rest of us must be really stupid, as it took most of us many hours back in 2.0/2.1 to kill tiwn, yet the machanics were exactly the same as discribed above.

[Shioban]

Simple, very very simple, I'm sure as it's this easy your first T5 kill only took your static a few trys then?

The rest of us must be really stupid, as it took most of us many hours back in 2.0/2.1 to kill tiwn, yet the machanics were exactly the same as discribed above.

Actually the vast majority of the wipes were caused by our terrible gear and the occasional mistake more than anything.

The actual learning process was extremely easy.

I feel story content shouldn't be locked behind content that requires that much practice.

It was the exact same with FFXI, or any MMO for that matter.

They're going to add a story for this content, crying because "I didnt get to participate in EVERY aspect of the game" is just sad.



CAN they add this? Yes, they're considering methods for it.

Are they likely to do it as described by the OP? Not likely.


The entire story is available for your viewing pleasure, RIGHT NOW.
If you just want to know the story, then skipping the fights won't be that big of an issue for you.

[Audacity]

I personally don't believe any story content should be locked behind extremely difficult fights.

Nothing about the fight is extremely difficult. It has a couple of unique mechanics which take a few runs to learn and get used to. If you haven't beaten it by now, There's usually a good reason.