Is this game too easy?

[Alkimi]

There's reasonably difficult content out there. Coil can seem daunting at first but all the fights are scripted so it's just a matter of learning the mechanics then having the required capability to meet the tanking/healing/dps checks.

As others have said, finding 7 other competent people is a huge challenge in itself.

[NyarukoW]

I don't know where people get off making fun of other people for not knowing the encounter. People should get 8 players new to any of the coils, primals HM or EX, and got at it without watching video. If you haven't memorized the scripted encounters, is it easy to figure out what is going on? It is actually fun trying to figure it for the first time. At least wipe a dozen times going in blind.

After that you can check for answers on youtube or something, because truth be told none of the scripted encounter is obvious or intuitive. How are you suppose to know beforehand that miasma will bind the renauds, or if you move during blighted you will die, or you must stand on the neural link during the big blue flash, or healer and DPS need to be at opposite ends during Gaol, or don't kill off a little moogle too quickly, or any of the stuff people take for granted after a few iterations. And then even if you know the answers, you will need practice to execute the moves. But after a while, if you got a good group that play together consistently, it will all be 1-shots.

So what is easy? Is it easy to get to point of 1-shot/farm status? Is anything hard when you have everything on 1-shot farm status? What percent of the player base has it all on 1-shot farm status?

Game only gets addded diffulty because of select group of people deliberately being mean to others. The do things like "no myth bonus" or "no newbies allowed", and then turn around and sell SCOB turns for 60 Mil or so.

[Alkimi]

I don't know where people get off making fun of other people for not knowing the encounter. People should get 8 players new to any of the coils, primals HM or EX, and got at it without watching video. If you haven't memorized the scripted encounters, is it easy to figure out what is going on? It is actually fun trying to figure it for the first time. At least wipe a dozen times doing in blind.

Yeah doing coil first day after patch is actually quite fun. There's no pressure on anyone and it's a learning experience for all. The frustration comes when you keep wiping on T7 despite having had it on farm for 5 months, but that happens to the best of us.

[Cherryblossoms]

Titan Extreme... i felt like i was a decent player and fairly well geared until i tried extreme...

[Adelard]

Which is what I don't understand. it is a bit hypocritical to say "no newbies allowed" when they were once a newbie too. Fortunately I have a company, so I don't really have to deal with these jerks.

[Adelard]

Titan Extreme... i felt like i was a decent player and fairly well geared until i tried extreme...

SO they weren't kidding when they said it was extreme? I'm just hoping that SE don't nerf the difficulty. Apparantly in SWTOR they nerfed nightmare, so it is really just hard and they nerfed hard, so it is like normal. As for normal mode, that is just easy now. Hope SE don't end up doing something similar.

[Tauu]

I like the difficulty of Frontlines. The unscripted fights and on-the-fly decision making is refreshing compared to the static script memorization routine the rest of the game offers.

[Cherryblossoms]

There are groups with veteran players for clears and there are groups for learning. Me and some friends do the latter until we beat it. We just dont have 8 people but we are usually lucky enough to find other players willing to learn with us or even better, critique us (nicely!).

[Edli]

it is a bit hypocritical to say "no newbies allowed" when they were once a newbie too.

There are plenty of learning parties where newbies can practice. I never had a problem learning fights with those parties.

[Cherryblossoms]

Titan extreme is a pita. It has me questioning my abilities and my current pc setup lol. One has to be improved, probably both. Practice, breath, try again. With the right group of people its a blast and imagine that feeling when you beat it. For me, the accomplishment is huge.