please stop make the game easier.

[ArcaviusGreyashe]

I'm not disagreeing that the game isn't easy, because it's gotten a lot easier imo since ARR, when you actually had to use CC, pick up packs carefully or avoid pats.

I'm sorry, but that was never the case... Or rather : If it was, it didn't change at all. I started the game back then, right after the game launched, and dungeons were never hard... You didn't have to use CC, you could... and you still can. You just don't see people doing that because they don't care so much, since everyone knows how to do the mechanics... For example, in Fractal Continuum HM, there are chimeras that, as usual, do their thing, and you can stun them... But why would you, when everyone is used to avoiding anyway ? And stun was basically the only CC you used... Except for those adds and T7 that needed to be slowed down, which really is lacking, but that's raid content, and we got other challenges instead... But the stunlock that you needed to do as a PLD in T5 or Levi EX was never fun nor hard. It was just boring.

As for packs and so on... Well, yeah. Because there weren't walls. So you had the impression you had to choose carefully what to pull and what not... But I assure you, if you broke down all those walls from new dungeons and made it possible to run from boss to boss... Well, you wouldn't. Why ? Because the packs would destroy you x) Some healers can't even take hell's lid packs from wall to wall, so why would you even try pulling more ? With most healers I meet in Expert, I already pick up packs carefully !

You're nostalgic, like so many others, that's all. And there's nothing wrong with it, but you can't pretend ARR was harder...