O2S already down...

[Arutan]

I haven't put a foot in there yet, waiting the evening to go with FC. But people in the world first race already downed O2S. I know they are hardcore gamer, but... this sound rather disappointing, knowing it took them 4 hours to down A10S in the last race. I feared that the difficulty would drop even more than it did with the creator and it looks like my fear were justified.
SE, why are you giving up like this on your raider? First gear getting more and more ugly, and now a difficulty constantly dropping down each new raid tier... At this rate you could just stop trying to make Savage raid and just leave the story one, it would be the same.

[Chiramu]

Don't worry, the people who downed it will be the people you don't want to group with :P.

[Atlas-04]

What was the clear rate on A12S? Abysmal if i remember right. Just the because THE best players in the world clear it very fast doesn't mean it isn't challenging.

[Arutan]

What was the clear rate on A12S? Abysmal if i remember right. Just the because THE best players in the world clear it very fast doesn't mean it isn't challenging.

You can still evaluate the difficulty of the thing by comparing clear time with previous race and the rate of clearing. And overall it's actually taking 4 times less time for most of the participants.

[Malkomia]

What was the clear rate on A12S? Abysmal if i remember right. Just the because THE best players in the world clear it very fast doesn't mean it isn't challenging.

Yeah but it's an indicator for the difficulty.
Midas took a lot more time to clear and most of the normal raid groups couldn't beat it.

[Driavna]

It seems the first two turns are rather "easy". A totally new player (started playing with SB) from my FC already cleared 1.0 with his first random party via raid finder. I guess it will become harder and harder till all the "good" players que only for completed duty and pugs will become again a headache.

[loreleidiangelo]

Keep complaining; I know I at least DEFINITELY want another Gordias. /s

As long as the fights are fun I can't say I'm fussed about the arbitrary "hard" factor. The normal mode had a lot of neat concepts so I'm still excited to launch into it with my static tonight.

[Nezia]

Maybe they made the 3 first bosses easy so everyone can have a blast on NeoExdeath?


Or maybe not.

[Niyuka]

Maybe SE just believes the playerbase, on average, is getting worse at playing but more demanding, and as such catering to that is more sensible. I detest easy-modes, always have since I played Super Mario on my Gameboy back in the late 80s, but I realize that many players prefer things handed to them for showing up, since that makes them not feel inferior to those who can accomplish more.

[saber_alter]

There are no new mechanics in a1s and a2s from what was stated.

From a raiding standpoint, this is not surprising.