Alexander Normal difficulty...

[Nikita]

You failed to discuss this golden nugget:

Q. So Alexander was made with player clear rates in mind?
Y: Yup. Looking at the number of player clears, we also have something called Content Costs where we basically want our content to be enjoyable by more people.

[Craiger]

You failed to discuss this golden nugget:

They can't please everyone with just 2 different raids... They would have to add at least 1 more raid difficulty for that(that's a lot more work though), but they could make it more enjoyable for a lot of players by making Alexander Normal mode easier than current Coil, so that more people can get into it... but at the same time, it can't be too easy.

Maybe Alexander Hard mode isn't going to be as hard as we think, but they said it's going to be like Coil Savage several times now, and remember, Savage coil came out 2.3(!) and is still considered to be a really big challenge for most players. It's the hardest raid in the game still. If Alexander Hard mode is like that, and Normal mode is a faceroll, you'll see majority of players stuck on it still in 3.3 or something, and I'm not just talking about the players that are stuck on T5 right now.

They have said that the difficulty of Alexaner (hard) will be between Coil (with no echo) and Coil Savage, not like Coil Savage.

They just had a Q&A at Nico today

Q. How hard is Alexander Hard?
Y: About as hard as FCOB Savage

FCoB Savage doesn't exist, that's why I kinda made this thread asking if something got lost in translation or something...

Even if Alex hard is same or slightly harder than FCoB, I'm kinda disappointed with Alexander Normal mode anyway, if it's going to be that easy. I was looking forward to having 2 raids to go through, but I don't just want it to be a 8 man version of CT

[Ulathskullsplitter]

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Even if Alex hard is same or slightly harder than FCoB, I'm kinda disappointed with Alexander Normal mode anyway, if it's going to be that easy. I was looking forward to having 2 raids to go through, but I don't just want it to be a 8 man version of CT

Normal mode being easy and allowing lots of players to clear it is the whole point. Its supposed to be easy. The only thing unclear i guess is just how hard hard mode will be. SE wants people to actually see the content they are taking time to create. Check the thread about coil clear numbers. Only 10% of all players have cleared all of coil and only about 2% of NA/EU players have cleared it. They obviously dont want a repeat of that with Alexander.