Is Endgame Just a Cycle of "Static Killers?"

[CosmicKirby]

In other MMOs, and in XIV, applying to a top raiding guild is like applying to a well paying job - they don't just hand those out to Joe who just graduated high school and thinks he deserves to jump straight into the deep end without even getting his feet wet first. If this is too much work for you, then you don't actually want to raid Savage because there's literally no way around this. The only other option you have is to accept that your progress is going to be slow and try to have fun with it by raiding casually with friends (which I'd honestly recommend, hardcore raiding isn't all it's cut out to be in the first place).

Most of this post I don't really feel strongly about buuut here's my two cents.

I tried this. It amounted to 4 fucking months of banging our head against A3S, only to get cucked when our LB3 inexplicably didn't build on Pepsiman EX and giving us a >1% wipe we never got back to again. I WANTED to play with friends in content in this game. Unfortunately, the content was so absurdly tuned to two drastically different ends of the spectrum, that stuff was either too easy, or far too hard to be reasonable. There simply wasn't a middle ground that our group could comfortably find beyond 2-3 fights in a content group. This simply isn't competitive with other MMORPG raiding experiences, it's shameful and they really need to address it. There needs to be a paradigm shift to accommodate the much larger (but still small) midcore and casual raiders more than the world first groups, or there needs to be options for everyone. Because deciding that half the raid is for one and the other half gets the other is stupid when you have 4 fights between the two.

(Midas was our group getting locked on A6S for 2 months before I finally had a schedule conflict and was happy to bail.)

I'd rather be playing at half-brain capacity in moderately challenging WoW Heroic Raids than Savage Midas and Gordian ever again. Because at least there I have a much larger amount of fights to get through, more loot to possibly get, better itemization, and more breadth of content to get through.

Well, the only raid atm is Alexander and they're intending on making Creator super duper easy so you're getting your wish. And I agree, they should make everything super easy and work their way up, it worked in Coil so it was weird when Gordias launched and they decided they wanted to do something harder than every Coil outside of Savage SCoB.

I hope to goodness this is the case. Because it was an absurdly bad idea. Imagine my position of "I'mma start raiding in Heavensward!" having never touched the Coil raids until after the fact. There could hardly be a worse introduction. Except maybe EX Titan when the netcode was sent by carrier pidgeon.