please stop make the game easier.

[Dzian]

This IMO is the main cause for people saying "oh, it's easy for everyone"... because that's all they see. Players of equivalent skill would naturally make the content easy, and even if there is 1-2 'normal' players in a duty... 2-3 highly skilled players will easily manage the fights regardless of the 'lesser skilled' players mistakes/handicaps/etc. So to them they still see the content as easy, and believe that all players find it easy... because they don't realize that with 2-3 skilled ppl in a group can easily carry 1-2 bad players and still make everything look/seem easy.

While I don't deny there's certainly some truth to that. I do think it's only one side of the coin.

When you read a lot of the posts people make about the game being easy. they don't mean its easy for them. they genuinely do mean it's easy for everyone. and in many cases they go on to validate there arguments by giving examples of content that is literally so easy it would take more effort to actually fail it than it would to succeed.

one of the biggest and more recent examples of this is kugane castle. even at like i280 ish with your 290 job gear and whatever right side junk you got. you simply cannot fail at yojimbo.. it is virtually impossible from a mechanical point of view. your entire party can afk and let daigorro pick up all the coins. you still will not die....

another example is the drowned city of scaella. I'll be totally honest here that second boss. I don't know any of the mechs for. I just stand there on my blm and nuke the hell out of it. stood in a puddle, got some tether? none of it matters even if I end up with 7-8 stacks of whatever that debuff is I will not die...

these level 70 dungeons are actually less dangerous than things like brayflox longstops / haukke manor around level 30.. and that's incredibly backwards in design choice.

even raids are going the same way. first time my friends and I did o5 for example we must have been whisked off to the passanger cars so many times often leaving no healers on the freight car or something and still no one was ever in any real danger..

we cleared o6 2 or 3 times before half of us even noticed the duty action button was a thing......