The Ifrit Fight is Dangerous to the Community.

[Forerunner]

Ifrit is not hard, (Try fighting him with 3 seconds of delay on his AoE attacks.) nor endgame content when the game has only be around for a year!

A year spent recovering, changing dev teams and trying to sort out mistakes.

Calm down, pick yourself up, and your team and try again. You'll do it in the end, and feel better for having the determination to see it through.

[SilvertearRen]

Riddle me this, Riddle me that. Who was it whom asked for tough higher skilled content, whom was it who said the game does not cater to "Hardcore" gamers. If you are unskilled then stay away from the content quite simple.

If this is the mindset the devs have, they are essentially locking out some people in the game, and that's going to create some resentment. I don't believe in being exclusive.

[Chardrizard]

He's right. SE should scale the difficulty but they should offer different achievements like this.




instead of this, which is for the hard mode, the real God strength. (Apologize for the shameless plug Forever Intoxicated)

[Raijin]

I've given enough ground to your arguments. I'm not asking to have the endgame content "destroyed" or "remade" to suit my needs. What I am asking for is to have the option to adjust the difficulty, with certain penalties attached regarding rewards while still retaining the original design and difficulty of the encounter as an option.

I don't see why you guys should be resistant to such an option.

they did that with WoW and they lost lost close to 2 million subscriptions.

[Alerith]

I've given enough ground to your arguments. I'm not asking to have the endgame content "destroyed" or "remade" to suit my needs. What I am asking for is to have the option to adjust the difficulty, with certain penalties attached regarding rewards while still retaining the original design and difficulty of the encounter as an option.

I don't see why you guys should be resistant to such an option.

Because it's pointless.

[SilvertearRen]

Difference?

The difference is that it is not identical to the Hyper fight, and thus does not offer players an opportunity to "learn" the fight without being unduly punished for mistakes.

Because it's pointless.

Pointless to you, not so much to me. I accept the fact that there are people whose perspectives will differ from mine, but it shouldn't be a reason for people to immediately shoot down a solution. I don't go around shooting down other people's suggestions or solutions just because I think it's pointless. Instead, I would try to see WHY it would be useful, and how it could be adjusted to meet everybody's preferences.

The core of the mantra is choice.

And I don't mean a two-pronged choice set, either. "Do it" or "Don't do it"...that's an exclusionary mindset. That's unacceptable to me. Now, if it was "Do it", or "Do it with different parameters", or "Don't Do it", I would accept it.

Simple as that. If people cannot understand the advantages of having multiple choices in the content you do, then I pity you.

(Actually, strike that last part - after all these responses, you don't deserve my pity, or anybody else's.)

[Synapse]

i guess this is what the pt that wiped did:

Spam ws without timing/watch ifrit's TP attack pattern
Use ability just when is about to use TP move
Run up to him and continue attack after he just landed < NO NO NO!
Tank didnt position him properly after he landed
DD curing themselves due to low HP when is about to TP (low HP is better than death)
Taking Sear damage < lot of people dont know abt this, i know didnt my early few runs)
Not knowing "safe spots" during his Jump frenzy
Using WS/Ability just before he is about to Jump and get locked and get owned by charge
DD stacking on top of each other
DD running toward mages to avoid cracks

and more blah blah blah....

i was doing alot of mistake few early runs but more you do more you learn.

[grandm]

I've given enough ground to your arguments. I'm not asking to have the endgame content "destroyed" or "remade" to suit my needs. What I am asking for is to have the option to adjust the difficulty, with certain penalties attached regarding rewards while still retaining the original design and difficulty of the encounter as an option.

I don't see why you guys should be resistant to such an option.

why not just wait for it to be nerfed, it will be in time

[Etienn]

See I never said anyone was unskilled, the point is, people complained, and yoshi Epeen delivered, and we are here now, you can't have it all go your way. at least work for your achievements , this is post low level content the new players wil catch up and do ifrit fine.

On top of that.. nm

[whoopeeragon]

Because not all content should be available to each and everything. Why can't we go run up to the final boss and smack him over the head with a frying pan? Why can't I ride a chocobo as soon as I get my character? Why must I start from level one and not from level fifty? Why must we enter Darkhold as a party? Why why why?

Everything has a price; restrictions is one that is necessary for certain content. Else, there's nothing to look forward to ahead of the next corner when you can do everything straight away like that. Disregarding rewards and penalties, the sense of achievement will certainly go from low to non-existent in this current game. Are you prepared for the complaining that will arise because of that?

Sure, it has short term benefits. But how about long-term? Would it really still entice long-playing persons to keep with a game that they can do at any level, any time, any where? Would it really give them the sense of accomplishment that entices them to stay? Options are nice, but too many cooks spoil the broth; there's a limit to how diverse something can be.