Coils of Bahamut... and its inconsistent challenge level.

[aleph_null]

I said difficulty akin to the vault... Is that really too hard?

It has been a while since I last ran vault, but even though I wasn't there for pharos pre-nerf I was under the impression that it was hard enough to make pugs wipe, from what I read. Weeping city was ok since it's something you run once a week, so 1-2 wipes would be bearable, but 1-2 wipes on average in something I run daily, yeah I'd rather not. I don't remember if vault was that hard or not though.

The thing is that having faceroll dungeons actually causes a lot of problems with the game. It's like if you teach someone to ride a bike, then stick stabilisers on the bike for 6 months, how good are they really going to be at riding the bike after those 6 months, and how dependent will they be on the stabilisers? (wonky analogy but you get the point)

Good point, though I'd still prefer if they gate contents by using harder solo instances or story trials, or even require completion of the correlated stone sky sea trial before queuing into ex/savage via DF/RF (make it such that when you clear a stone sky sea trial, you unlock everything else that has lower dps requirements, so it won't be too much of a hassle).