DPS is the job of DPS.

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"Content has been getting easier"

How many Shinryu posts in 4.0 launch were there again? I also so plenty for the solo mission in 4.1. If it's getting easier I don't know how people are getting this far.

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Yet Shinryu "Kept the casuals from playing the game." I'm not saying it's getting harder. It's just not getting easier. I heard more cries on Shinryu normal than I heard for Final Steps, and I heard a LOT on how terrible Final Steps is to a casual.

I very much doubt we will see dungeons like Amdapor Keep or Pharos Sirius again, nor will we see primals like Thordan Ex. Even 2.0 Titan HM was a pretty significant slugfest with a huge amount of aoe damage back when most people were still wearing Darklight.

Imho the game has typically got easier across the board, it makes sense for SE to spend what little they still do on FFXIV on content that's going to reach the most amount of people. And as such, the first half of this raid tier is by far the easiest and most accessible yet.

Whilst yes, you could rightly claim that Unending Coil is also pretty clearly the hardest content we've ever seen (And yes, it really frustrates me that my group has 0 interest in running it), it's also almost entirely made out of recycled assets and mechanics and as such, likely cost comparatively little manpower to develop vs Omega which is fair enough given the minuscule portion of the player base that's ever going to experience much of it outside of a youtube replay.

Final Steps was a weird one really. It wasn't at all challenging, it just relied on people reading prompts to understand a critical mechanic, something which a frighteningly significant portion of the player base has always had difficulty doing.