Maybe it's just some frustration on my part but does anyone else feel like the difficulty of the reg mode content got boosted a bit? The Burn obviously has its issues but even in Alphascape, I never remember the raids being difficult to clear with for some alt job loot in any other raid through Heavensward and Stormblood outside of some difficulty with Ozma from Weeping City.

It's absurd the number of groups I queue into where we wipe to the point of vote abandoning because the raid keeps dying to the edges/hole on A11, before even getting into issues with Starboard/Larboard. The number of vote abandons in A12 because people won't separate the stack and spread markers 7 times in a row is super high.

It's just a bit frustrating because it's really hard to carry underperformers. With the constant onslaught of mechanics and so many mechanics being pass/fails, stack ups, and DPS checks mid fight, it just feels really hard to carry new or terrible players while they get their heads caved in. Someone dies? Welp good luck on the DPS check and the stack mechanics that will now wipe everyone out.

We saw them start this with the 24 mans this expansion and now we have it in the 8 mans. So is this the new direction? Not necessarily a BAD thing but it'll be interesting to see how many actually rise to the occasion. As it stands, it's not fun feeling like reprogressing on reg mode content.