Quote Originally Posted by Sandpark View Post
No though you are entitled to your on opinion. The last thing a company should do is increase the barrier for entry or difficulty in the main story. The MSQ is where most content is unlocked. It's bad enough people have to wait on queues, sometimes a long time. Playing XI some content was considered too hard for standard players, some of the genkai quest(mostly solo job quest) had some players quitting the game due to frustration. Half of the player base did not even get to through the CoP expansion which was not even the difficult endgame content locked behind it, until it was nerfed to high heaven years later.

If they want their main target demographic to be bleeding edge difficulty they could do that but I doubt it. For side content they can make content give headaches, vitriol, finger gymnastics, twitch reflexes, content so hard it makes babies bleed. But keep that away from the MSQ.
Just to be clear I'm not asking for a sudden big spike in difficulty.
What we have now is like you're running the game on beginner mode. I'm asking to rise it to a normal difficulty.

Don't forget the echo buff which increases you HP and attack if you continue to fail. The players will not get stuck and left behind.