Request for Super Easy difficulty

[Gun-Cat]

Cutting through the 13 layers of irony and sarcasm people tend to use here, but I think the suggestion isn't that bad. Since the local forum heroes never tire in their attempts to point out how laughably easy the content in this game is, I wouldn't see a problem when developers would implement a (gentel) version of mandatory encounters. I'd even go further and say make those versions solo duties, letting the player fight with their Squadron or even story NPCs. There are quite a few people who have anxieties and a fear of messing up in group content. That way everyone can go their own pace.

To quell eventual cries of "Then why would I do this with a group in the first place?!" make it so that (gentle) lags 2 weeks behind the normal content.

[Sandpark]

Sure if one side is getting 4-8 versions of the same dungeons/raids but harder, why not?

Nothing <---Normal>Hard>Savage>Extreme>Savage>Super Savage>Ludicrous Extreme>Super Ludicrous Extreme Savage

Easy Mode:
Solo or Duo
Squadrons or Chocobos Usuable
Enemy HP,DEF, and DPS cut in half
Unlimited Sprint
Entry into Content Anytime possible
Global Role Actions
Unique Titles/Mounts

Rather than even easier modes, just have alternate paths and enemies for easy mode in each dungeon.

So something like:
Path A: Hullbreaker Isle(original theme)
Path B: Hullbreaker Isle(Seaside beach)
Path C: Hullbreaker Isle(Undergound Water Caverns)

[Masekase_Hurricane]

To be fair they did start out doing this with Ifrit, Titan and Garuda normal,hard and extreme versions. Wouldn't bother me either way though as I currently do all content.

[Xerxus___]

Easy mode? Are u serious? How hard is it to play the normal modes, how lazy are players becoming, seek another game where u get everything easy without any effort or skill.

[Sandpark]

Easy mode? Are u serious? How hard is it to play the normal modes, how lazy are players becoming, seek another game where u get everything easy without any effort or skill.

Super Savage are u serious? How easy is it to play normal modes, how elite are players becoming, seek another game where you rarely get anything or alternate modes of gameplay unless you have the epitome of leet skills.

[Maero]

While i cannot say if current easy content should be easier people fail to realize there are also older players that play, i am talking about players 70+ years old. And also more people in this age bracket then you may believe, lol
Sometimes some of the content is harder for them. The approach of course is they should get friends or FC members to help them but you have good intentions OP

[itti18]

easy mode already exists which is content below level 30 , by that time you have more than enough experience to be able to do normal mode

[usalia]

Hi!

Isnt normal is the super easy? Stop being lazy and l2p at LVL 70. 7....0

[Draven]

Or you can stop being lazy and actually learn to play good instead of depending on the developers to make content easier. Seriously, this forum...

[Katryn]

The problem I see with this, and I say this as someone who can have trouble with the game sometimes, is that it would open the risk that people who played easy mode and people who have played harder mode could still get partied together in the future.

If easy mode does not actually teach the fundamentals of the game properly and has its own separate set of expectations from the game as a whole, it could unintentionally provide a means of griefing the community at large. The challenge of various encounters throughout the game, most notably Shinryu at the end of SB, works as a gating system to try and ensure a base level of competence among the playerbase. Unless this was either on its own isolated server or an alternative offline / limited player mode of the game it would jeopardize that balance.

I use easy modes in the vast majority of the offline titles I play. I certainly understand that they have their uses. But as long as this is a multiplayer game, there has to be a cut off point, a bottom line at which Gandalf raises his staff and tell you, "You shall not pass!" if your group just isn't ready for whatever reason. Otherwise you get a flood of ill-prepared players entering content where they don't belong and it causes trouble for the community as a whole.