Going to the same route as WoW. The game is TOO easy

[Misutoraru]

Maybe it’s just me, but I find there’s definitely something about Starboard/Larboard that’s more difficult to reconcile mentally.
Tsukiyomi’s Bright/Dark blade went in far easier, thanks to Bright=Right, and now I automatically, reflexively recognise Dark as Left.
But this hasn’t happened for me with Larboard, I still need to consciously think “L for Left” instead of it being a reflex. Or Lardboard=Port, because I believe Port and Starboard would make far more sense to me personally.
It’s probably the length of the word. Left/Dark/Port are all 4 letter words, while Right/Bright/Starboard stand out as longer words. It’s much easier to take a mental snapshot of an entire word, than it is to pick out one letter in it.

You are not alone, some ppl like me memories mechanic by words. I keep getting hit by Larboard in my first run even I read the guide first, but I never get hit by Mustadio even going in blind. We use left and right all the time, and we use starboard and port to some extend, we are familiar with those words. Hence it will be easier to operate our brain with those word.
We could get use to Larboard, but it really took me 4 run to completely avoid it.
It is just different ppl have different way of recognised thing

[Rivxkobe]

This game has always been easy though.

[Atlas-04]

I, myself, will probably buckle and get the expansion, but I will 100% be playing Classic in Aug. and Pantheon whenever that comes out.

I'm sorry but the idea that WoW Classic is hard is laughable. Tedious and time consuming does not mean hard. The raids and dungeons were devoid of any real mechanics compared to today and every class had about a 2 to 3 button "rotation". The only difficult thing is how time consuming that game is for no real reward. You can't login for an hour or two and make big progress. Travel time is insane and mounts are too expensive for your average player at level 40. You will spend a majority of your time auto running between places, eating food between single monsters, and afk on flight paths.

That game is pure nostalgia. My dumb kid self played it and got to raiding just fine. I respect it for what it was back then but I would never want to go back.

[Alestorm]

I'm sorry but the idea that WoW Classic is hard is laughable. Tedious and time consuming does not mean hard. The raids and dungeons were devoid of any real mechanics compared to today and every class had about a 2 to 3 button "rotation". The only difficult thing is how time consuming that game is for no real reward. You can't login for an hour or two and make big progress. Travel time is insane and mounts are too expensive for your average player at level 40. You will spend a majority of your time auto running between places, eating food between single monsters, and afk on flight paths.

That game is pure nostalgia. My dumb kid self played it and got to raiding just fine. I respect it for what it was back then but I would never want to go back.

That will be the real fun: watching all the people lose their minds when they realize it really wasn't that difficult. Just because a boss hits harder doesn't mean the content is more difficult.

[Barraind]

I'm sorry but the idea that WoW Classic is hard is laughable. Tedious and time consuming does not mean hard. The raids and dungeons were devoid of any real mechanics compared to today and every class had about a 2 to 3 button "rotation". The only difficult thing is how time consuming that game is for no real reward. You can't login for an hour or two and make big progress. Travel time is insane and mounts are too expensive for your average player at level 40. You will spend a majority of your time auto running between places, eating food between single monsters, and afk on flight paths.

That game is pure nostalgia. My dumb kid self played it and got to raiding just fine. I respect it for what it was back then but I would never want to go back.

Theres a LOT of people who thought classic was hard because it was their first MMO. You could tell, really quickly, who in your guild had played EQ at any decently high level and who hadnt. "OH GOD I GOT THIS DEBUFF WHAT DO I DO?!?!?!?!". "OH GOD THERES 3 MOBS WE CANT CROWD CONTROL OMG WHAT DO WHAAAAAT DOOOOOO".

Meanwhile, everyone who had raided VT and beyond was like "hey, this isnt 7 trash mobs that can 2 shot tanks and require you know exactly where you're standing in relation to EVERYTHING because they can knockback AND blind you for 60+ seconds (at a time where blind turned your screen black and hid every. single. ui feature). This is a nice change of pace and free loot. "

And then you waited while mages summoned food and water because god forbid people buy stacks of them for raids... (or that one time where mage water was like 2x better than any water you COULD buy, because they really just hated people who wanted to efficiently do things, IM LOOKING AT YOU, SPIRIT CHANGES)

[CazzT]

FFXIV is easier than WoW, even though the mechanics for some bosses are far more complex than what WoW offers. I like the complexity of the fights we have. WoW just adds a zero to the damage output and then boasts that it's harder.

[Fynlar]

I don't really know why people are having such difficulty with it. Maybe it's the flipping that throws them off? But I find that that makes it EASIER for me. If its the same? Move to the other side. Is it the other one? Stay where you are.

The difficulty comes from how similar the words look at a quick glance. I really don't know why THAT is so difficult for some people to figure out.

[Omymy]

So you wanna play a hard game and you gonna play WoW Classic.


Kay.

[Drayce1]

If ya want some hardcore challenge mate. Keep an eye on pantheon.

This game is built primarily for the super casual player. If they decided to turn the overall difficulty of everything outside savage from its current 2 of 10 to say, 4 of 10, the majority player will quit amass, thus far less monies thus far less nice things going into the game.

This is what XIV is. Gotta deal with it.

[Barraind]

The current Mythic+ system suffers from the same problems that plagued Cata: the timer requires that you exclude under-performers.

Thats how the more difficult stuff should be though.

If your most challenging content is "you can take anyone, even if they arent very good", it cant actually BE difficult.

If ya want some hardcore challenge mate. Keep an eye on pantheon.

Cant wait for people to start realizing itll take half your available playtime to get your group TO the place you're going to go for the night.

The more anyone on their dev team talks, the more I am ready to run as far as possible away from that game, and I'm its target audience; people who remember the good old days of EQ and WANT something that has the "get a group of friends and grind stuff in a camp for hours, with mana regen and crowd control mattering a whole lot'. I actively DONT want the game they keep trying to push.