Is this game too easy?

[Adelard]

Discuss. I want to hear your thoughts. I'm level 50, but haven't had a chance to do all end game content yet. I'm hoping for a real challenge. Something which makes your group wipe over and over, before you make any progress.
How are the raids in general?

[Evenstar]

Coil is well tuned, rest is a bit too easy and a bit too grindy, but that is how MMO's are

[Canadane]

It has a lot of easy content, some mid content (extreme primals) that can't always be learned on your first go but not impossible to get down at all, and then some of the more difficult content that has a higher learning curve, (second coil) and then of course, some rather hardcore stuff (savage coil).

[KaedrianLiang]

For a post WoW era type of MMO, this has a fair difficulty. Overwhelming majority of other online game developers have taken the "make it easy so everyone can play it" approach. While FFXIV is certainly less grindy than traditionally designed MMO's, it still isn't for everyone.

In my opinion the definition of MMORPG is "Not for Everyone."

Difficulty? Fair.

[SpookyGhost]

Greatly depends on you and your group's skill level. Some people only find Savage 7 hard, some people find Titan HM and beyond hard.

[maxthunder1]

Every aspect of the game is easy the only hard thing is finding 7 other competent players

[Arkanethered]

I find the player base more challenging than the content.

[Finaltime101]

Basically, everything is easy if you know to mechanics for each fight. The hardest part is creating a party with skilled, competent players. Good party= easy Okay party= kinda hard Bad party= difficult

[Shikiseki]

I'd say the overall difficulty is pretty fair for most of the time. I remember having a hard time on Garuda HM back then with i60 but it actually was fun. I wiped quite a few times on some of the more difficult dungeons during my adventure like Aurum Vale, Stone Vigil etc.

I can see why some people think it's super easy and QQ all day because if you're leaning towards a hardcore gamer side, things appear super easy, especially when you have your static team with you.

That said.. a major part that trivializes the difficulty is that many think all players in this game should watch a guide before entering literally every content.

[Adelard]

Basically, everything is easy if you know to mechanics for each fight. The hardest part is creating a party with skilled, competent players. Good party= easy Okay party= kinda hard Bad party= difficult

I agree with that. For example, the first time I did Aurum Vale. my party wiped over and over on the first boss. The healer was kinda undergeared, which didn't help. The second time I did it with no problem. Back in LOTRO my team used to wipe over and over on the rift raid, but only once the fight was learned, it was achievable. Would you say it was the same for the coil and syrcus tower?