Escalating skill requirements & FFXIV future

[Ceridwenae]

Welp, now I have done this particular instance on BRD. I had did have a time issue the first two attempts with the meteor, but nailed it on the third. I'm not sure if I'd be able to take another shot at it had that third failed. The second part of the instance looked dicey a couple of times, but I'm very glad I pushed the buttons at the right time or something, because I just eked through. Hien was no issue, but I-as-Y'shtola was pushing it by standing in stupid a few times to see what would happen, and accidentally retaining him as a heal target instead of healing myself-as-Y'shtola (this is why I don't really do healing! I always mix the targets up!). I actually had a lot of fun with this, but frankly, my BRD rotation (such as it is) did go out of the window in Sadu's last phase. I still need a ton of practice (which I'm in the process of, thanks to Hubby's newfound tankdom dungeon spamming). I will get better, or at least passable! Fear not, Savage and Extreme content players: I am unlikely to darken your doors anytime soon.

I think sometimes, you just get caught out, sometimes you press the wrong button, and sometimes the server hates you, or you blink and miss something important. People have bad days and have a rant about it. I think if I'd had another fail, I'd have left and not come back until the next day. I think OP just had a few too many bad things occur, and got frustrated - perhaps in truth more at themselves than anything else, and just took it out here. Put it perspective: Sadu's portion of the fight was nicely put together: Here's mechanic A. Here's Mechanic B. Here they are together. Here's C, etc. If you've done all the mandatory content up to this point, there's nothing you haven't seen before. I say that, however, having repeated content, and I think that's a really important thing to do: spam the dungeons where and when you can. It helps.

So, the second portion knocked a few people off-kilter. This also happened in GW2 (specifically playing as Caithe a few years back now). Here, read the tool tips. There's time to do it as the fight will not start until you run further in the circle to initiate it.

Instances can take a while if you mess up. I'm wondering if I'm a similar age to the OP in that I've been playing these things for about as long as they have, and for me, time has not been kind on the reflexes. When things take several attempts and you have to be somewhat on point, it can have a debilitating effect: you don't always improve in successive goes. So the thing I'd recommend in future to devs is this: a simple save point between the two parts of a battle like this would go a long way. It won't affect people that don't have a hard time with this stuff, and it'll give an opportunity for a break without losing progress for those of us who sometimes need a little help.

I don't feel the difficulty here particularly needs adjusted, just a small bit of QoL.