Raiding

[HPDelron]

Hi. Former (kind of current actually), WoW player here.
"Normal" or "Story" mode are in fact this games version of "LFR", along with the 24-man casual raids. Though generally they ask a bit more of the populace than WoW LFR does, there are lots of instant-death or near instant-death mechs you can't just doze through.

The "Extreme" versions of primals are above that and somewhere between a Normal & Heroic difficulty in WoW terms. The current batch of level 70 extreme primals are closer to "Normal" difficulty in WoW terms, albeit one of the later bosses. I suspect the later ones will be tougher as patches release.


The "Savage" versions of 8-man raids (Alexander @ 60 and now Omega @ 70) are the high-end version of raids, and generally fall somewhere between high-heroic and mid-mythic on the WoW difficulty scale.

That said in some sense WoW & FF14 raiding are unlike. With FF14 fights more often being of the scripted dance type than in WoW, and the smaller team size making individual performance a bit more pronounced.