Put back Extreme trial on raid finder again...please

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To be fair, I don't think the community is not as toxic as you make it out to be, FFxiv probably has one of the best community around, I'm speaking from personal experiences from many games big or small. Yes bonus incentives are nice when you're doing easier content but on savages and Ex trials they are often not worth it, why spend 60mins in a lock out for 100lores when I can just queue ARL for 150 in 30mins.

I've cleared everything most of my content in RF, I never had a static and despite my real life commitments I still invested time to study fights and make the effort to practice, google for japanese strats watch videos and understand them. I never had the luxury to run with the player compositions, strategy or the quality of players I want, I play in a JP server and have poor command of the japanese language but I still make an effort to improve my japanese and converse with them.

I think it all comes down to the mind set of the players, you can brood all day, blaming the system, the community and possibly the difficulty of the game by at the end of the day it all comes down to how much effort you're willing to put into something. That is the effort I put in hoping I don't pull 7 other people down with me, to me if you don't put in effort in the things that you want, obviously you don't want it enough.

That being said I enjoy helping people, I'd love for the playerbase to improve but I do not want to be put in a situation where I am forced to help when I really just want to get things done and every fight I queue for starts at ground zero ( at least for trials and savages). My advice is that you should try queueing for HW trials (not bismack and ravana) and Alexander savages and you'll see where I am going, quite often you'll meet people put in little to no effort to read up, go in blindly and expect a clear.

I don't want to sound like a broken record but.. I will say this again, no one complained about RF when it was placed be it casual or by "elite" players, meaning difficult contents is where it should be and RF was a good filter in a sense, people are complaining now because DF is a nightmare with those content. My words have some weight in them because I am an extremely helpful person in a way I try to give back to the community, I do things for free, carry people on a double seater mount to unlock aether currents, I can go on about this but that is beside the point. I have been queuing DF and it has been burning me out mentally because I am thrown in a situation where I am forced to help the majority of the time. My advice to you is, go and queue alex savage, thordan, sep and nidhog then maybe your opinion might change.

Lastly I don't want to be burnt out like what has happened to most veterans in this game, it becomes counter productive when you burn your veterans till the point where they don't want to ever step in.