Thread: The Current Status of FFXIV Patch 3.1 and How to Address it Moving Forward

Gordias Savage is certainly not what people asked for. Additional hardcore content outside of raids, perhaps, but not what raiders ended up with here. In a recent interview Yoshi mentioned how the feedback they got from SCoB was that it was too hard, so they released FCoB only to be told it was too easy. Now the logical step to take for your fourth raid would be to make it between your second and third raid in difficulty, not raise it to the level of your first Savage raid.

The underlying reason they made Gordias so high was to prevent another 7 day clear. Well, they got what they wanted there (at the expense of the remaining raiding population). Now they apparently aim to make Midas in between Second and Final Coil difficulty, which they should've done for Gordias in the first place.

Ideally, they'd get rid of the two tiered mode of raiding too, or at least have a similar structure to Second Coil/Savage Coil instead of Easy/Hard. Making a non-challenging raid just because people missed out on the Coil story was silly. If the raids after Echo, maxed gear and nerfed mechanics was still too much for players, then they should've just accepted their apparent limitations and watched the scenes on Youtube or asked SE to release a special cutscene video of the story.