I know, I know, yet another elitist thread, but first, I don't feel at all like an hardcore raider. I downed O4S one week before 4.2 dropped, I progressed rather slowly on Deltascape, and my roster and I are casual to midcore raiders.

Yet, I really feel like Byakko EX really is Byakko HM. My first kill was with a PUG that went blind, and we killed it in 40 minutes, I did it first try with my roster after I spent... 1 or 2 min explaining the strat to them... It really lacks difficulty.

The fight is amazing, it's really entertaining, and so on, but I felt nothing when I killed him. Back in 2.2, when I killed Titan EX for the first time, I felt like I did something great. When I killed Byakko EX, I felt like I did a great fight, but not a hard one.

So yeah... maybe we need three difficulties, like Titan, Ifrit and Garuda had ?