Request: More challanging / difficult content. PLEASE

[akisato]

well 90% of the MMO market is already a wow clone and they all failed do you really want another wow(a.k.a the endless instance grind)? look at swtor only thing that it has going is full voice quest & choices other than that its a pure wow clone next wave of mmo's are gonna be wow clones it never ends. hopfully SE sticks to the roots and not become another linear game.

SW - wow clone
Tera - wow clone with boobies & korean grind fest
GW2 - solo like the first we'll find out? only reason GW1 is still alive is because its F2P.

ok if wow clone is bad then why is FF11 clone good?

[Zezlar]

ok if wow clone is bad then why is FF11 clone good?

Probably because there is only one FFXI whereas WoW has itself and about a billion spinoffs now.

Aside from that I have to agree with the OP. Too many things are not difficult enough. Look at Chocobo Caravans for instance. Throw a THM in there to basically annihilate every mob besides the mites and you win the entire session.

I also don't believe that crafting items should be better than rare/ex unless they are HQ with double meld+. Rare/ex simply needs to be better and in some instances harder to obtain. The materia system was a great addition to the game but I think that system also screwed the pooch a little. One should NOT be able to add 3/4/5 melds on one piece of gear (if you are even that lucky). I also believe that the stats for current materia are simply far too high. All of the rare/ex gear are not even in the same league as a basic piece of gear (besides the primal weapons) with one tier iv materia on it. Please nerf materia when you fix stats for 2.0

They need to make rare/ex better, and at LEAST allow one materia slot to be added on.

[akisato]

Probably because there is only one FFXI whereas WoW has itself and about a billion spinoffs now.

Ok if you think about it like that then a FF11 clone is doomed to fail. None of WoWs clones have anywhere the success of WoW few have gotten between 10% to 20% of WoW's subs and none for anywhere near the time. So if FF11 has 500,000 subs for the whole 9 years a clone would have between 50,000 to 100,000 sub for maybe 2 years.

Aside from that I have to agree with the OP. Too many things are not difficult enough. Look at Chocobo Caravans for instance. Throw a THM in there to basically annihilate every mob besides the mites and you win the entire session.

If this is the best/easiest way to do this you know thats the way most ppl are gonna do it but you could just as easily not do it this way.

I also don't believe that crafting items should be better than rare/ex unless they are HQ with double meld+. Rare/ex simply needs to be better and in some instances harder to obtain. The materia system was a great addition to the game but I think that system also screwed the pooch a little. One should NOT be able to add 3/4/5 melds on one piece of gear (if you are even that lucky). I also believe that the stats for current materia are simply far too high. All of the rare/ex gear are not even in the same league as a basic piece of gear (besides the primal weapons) with one tier iv materia on it. Please nerf materia when you fix stats for 2.0

They need to make rare/ex better, and at LEAST allow one materia slot to be added on.

Let me start with yes we should be able to slot UN/UT equips up to 5 times and if it fails it give a reason to run content again. But if you dont make crafting essential then it becomes useless. Look at WoW, All the gear acquired from any battle content is better that anything crafted so no one crafts.