Quote Originally Posted by SerCypher View Post
Ugh I made a giant post and it got deleted.

I don't want more savage content, I want more 'Hard' content. The problem Square is running into now is the problem other games have. There is a group of people who say 'WE WANT MORE RAIDS' and another group that goes "I like casual stuff". Then the game becomes segregated.

There needs to be middle content that is challenging for people, provides a sense of progression, and teaches people their class before they get into a raid and piss everyone off. Let's go back to 2.0, for example. Here is what the progression looked like.

-Hit 60

-Do Dungeons, learn class, get basic mechanics down

- Get the relic quest, do Hard Trials, learn new mechanics.

- Finish Relic, get pointed to Coil

- Do Coil and Ex Primals


The whole idea of -hard- content seems to have gone out the wayside in this expansion. There is only casual and extreme, and there is nothing to bridge the gap and provide a sense of progression for the average player. That's why you have anger about new players trying Savage, or Ex primals. These people really aren't skilled enough for those fights, but they want something more challenging then facerolling dungeons, and there is nowhere to learn now.
There seems to be the assumption that the average player doesn't get a sense of progression from the way current content is now organized. Well, I don't know if I'm the average player but I get a sense of progression all the time, it's just not always related to gear. I'm excited whenever I get a new triple triad card or minion or complete a new achievement. I'm not against more "mid-core" content by any means. I just think that if the average player is anything like me, they feel that they progress more towards their goals by NOT doing raids than by doing them. I could spend a lot of time on Savage Alexander, not get too far, and miss out on grinding for other achievements, or I could work on those other achievements and catch up on raid content later on when it is more accessible. The latter is a more efficient use of time for me. Maybe others feel the same?