Escalating skill requirements & FFXIV future

[SomeRandomHuman]

The do it on something with more sustain or more dps. Bard isn't exactly high in the dps numbers without the blessings of rng.

Red Mage is the king of solo content but white mage and scholar can pull some respectable dps and pretty much never die unless you just don't try at all.

[Rynn21]

Please tell me the OP was just trolling...
the fight is ez. I did it first try.

[van_arn]

The solo fights are nice little baseline competence checks scattered throughout the story.

If a player can't clear them, I don't want to deal with them in the party content they block.

This isn't a matter of being savage tier or hardcore, this is about meeting the baseline requirements for pushing buttons and dodging aoes.

If these block your progress so badly you can't continue and you have no desire to improve your play to meet that baseline, bye.

[Floortank]

I'm not gonna front, I've lost in certain MSQ and Job solo duties. But it was always because I misread the instructions and derped up a mechanic. The one in question was so easy I wasn't even aware you could lose it. More than that, I had a lot of fun playing as the guest character.

[Gleipni]

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[hynaku]

The fight wasn't easy. Not when it kept freezing up in middle of fight. Hien kept standing in every aoe attack and had very hard time targeting him to heal the dummy. It been way better to have just left Hien out of the fight like how they did for wol. Might be easy for you but if have high ping and lots of lag it isn't easy fight. Just wish wol would leave scions and be able to walk our own patch. Try doing the battle with one bad hand and see if it is easy fight. I have failed it 3 times and I have not once seen regen effect or echo applied to it.

[Rymm]

had very hard time targeting him to heal the dummy

Set him as your focus target so you don't have to hunt for his actual character when he needs healed. Which honestly shouldn't be that often. He has a huge health pool and when I did it I healed him all of once (when the other enemy LBed him) and myself maybe two or three times; and that's completely ignoring the axes Magnai covers the floor with and just taking the damage from them. I did dodge the other AoEs, though and stood on Hien to be shielded when he called me over to him. Other than that, just burn Magnai.

[Mesarthim]

Define "high ping" because I routinely play with around 100-110ms (and played with 170ms+ when it was in Canada still) and I still easily one shot the instance.

[Coatl]

I've been playing MMOs since 2000.

then how does 14 come off as difficult?
were you playing toontown the whole time?

edit: club penguin?

[sakkito]

Eh, ignoring the fact that every player has different skill (due to experience or pure talent) so the ability to differ content to clear fights/dungeons/learn is different for every person (so all those 'OMIGOSH this was super easy comments are not that necessary).

I did clear it on third attempt xD And I admittedly for some reason did struggle with Yshtola mode on and whm is my main healer. [spoiler]
First part is a lot of running(basic dodging skill but done fast) and killing stuff. It is introduced at first with each mechanic clearly being marked and then a bit faster (I mostly got irritated because of her doing her phoenix thing xD). Yshtola wise- do as previous poster said, focus target him. He doesn't need much healing especially at first. Skill that you will find useful, Lucid Dreaming (the purple one) in rl game it is for aoe drop, but it helps your mp regen faster (so use it when you have like half of a bar). Then Aero the dude chasing you and when he stops playing DDR with aoe drops Stone dat dud. [/spoiler]

The fact that the difficulty is higher when we reach higher content is natural and that is how it should be. Game assumes that you have learned and improved and are ready for some challenges. And it is not in devs best interest to make this patch passable in like a day (but sadly it is). You asking for dumbing it down is gonna trigger people with higher skill or the ones that has already cleared it. It is not fair towards them and while game caters to people it caters not only to you but to the general public.
Shiryu's spike in difficulty compared to earlier 'meh' level was complainable but this quest's difficulty was to be expected after what every other quest/solo instance was serving us before.
In a way, if they make it easier they will upset more skilled people, if they make it more difficult devs upset you. No way to make it right.