FFXIV and Risk vs. Reward

[zosia]

I totally disagree with you read Krylo's post. Because that's the reality of this game.

I did before my post and I disagreed with it.

The open world was never dangerous, even at the start of the expansion, before people were ever even ilvl200. Monsters are always tethered and we have flying as well. It's not hard to escape danger and most monsters are just HP sponges. Nothing in this game will ever have a true sense of risk vs reward.

The other half of the post was just more casual-hardcore finger pointing prattle.

[Krylo]

The open world was never dangerous, even at the start of the expansion, before people were ever even ilvl200. Monsters are always tethered and we have flying as well. It's not hard to escape danger and most monsters are just HP sponges. Nothing in this game will ever have a true sense of risk vs reward.

This is why I put 'hard' in half-quotes. Fact remains that people were complaining about them being annoying and/or difficult for awhile after expansion launched and very few--if anyone--was talking about the open world being too easy. But now that we're rolling ilevels of ~200 on average, 50 higher than when we hit sixty and entered fractal, we get the first thread about how the open world has to be harder, because all the mobs get burst down in 5 GCDs, as if they were supposed to launch with enemies that are hardly beatable by people in 210 gear before 210 gear was even attainable.