Who Thought Adding Difficulty Levels To Instanced Quests Was A Good Idea?

[Novaura]

That has to be one of the dumbest ideas ever because it basically gives a free pass, especially for new players who were just given an excuse to not make an effort in playing the game. If someone from Square Enix came up with this idea, they need to be fired.

[Nedkel]

Oh nooooo
Someone will be able to pick different difficulty level for the fight that has no effect on me and my playing experience whatsoever, absolutely UNPLAYABLE now gg wp SE you destroyed your own gaem!

[Lacan]

Oh nooooo
Someone will be able to pick different difficulty level for the fight that has completely no effect on me and my playing experience, absolutely UNPLAYABLE now gg wp SE you destroyed your own gaem!

but we're gonna have to play with these nincompoops in duty finder and SE is enabling them. :v

[Nedkel]

but we're gonna have to play with these nincompoops in duty finder and SE is enabling them. :v

Ehm 70 lvl jump potion, ekhm ekhm.

[Shurrikhan]

Ehm 70 lvl jump potion, ekhm ekhm.

Right, because that hasn't had any lasting negative effects on game design, nor even the slightest bit of community controversy...

[monk-dps]

Right, because that hasn't had any lasting negative effects on game design, nor even the slightest bit of community controversy...

It hasn't. There were wipes, deaths, not knowing what to do, lack of understanding an opener, ice mages, no aoe dps, no dpsing healers, hate lacking tanks, and jumping jacking mchs before those jump potions were in the game.

[Penthea]

Oh nooooo
Someone will be able to pick different difficulty level for the fight that has no effect on me and my playing experience whatsoever, absolutely UNPLAYABLE now gg wp SE you destroyed your own gaem!

Yea it's totally not going to affect the fact that I already carry people quite often in normal modes by healing and ressing the results of easily avoidable damage. These people had the ability to complete the normal modes of the solo content. Imagine the people who cannot and choose the easier modes instead.

Lovely.

[RyuDragnier]

Yea it's totally not going to affect the fact that I already carry people quite often in normal modes by healing and ressing the results of easily avoidable damage. These people had the ability to complete the normal modes of the solo content. Imagine the people who cannot and choose the easier modes instead.

Lovely.

People learn things in dungeons, not solo instances.

[DevilsDontFly]

Yea it's totally not going to affect the fact that I already carry people quite often in normal modes by healing and ressing the results of easily avoidable damage. These people had the ability to complete the normal modes of the solo content. Imagine the people who cannot and choose the easier modes instead.

Lovely.

I can see your point, but here: You do solo instances once. Me doing MSQ as a White Mage won't suddenly turn me into a good Dragoon by association when I decide to level it. You're correlating two different things in the same logic path and it makes no sense. You can already skip everything up to shadowbringers with potions. That's why I don't understand all the crybabying happening here. The baddies you have to carry through your duties did everything you've done so far under the same dificulty level you did. I see terrible people on duty finder with Titania weapons all the time and guess why? You can be an awesome Monk and get all your tokens and still be a horrible WAR with your shiny weapon. None of that is a reflection of how difficult or easy solo instances are.

You learn how to play this game through dungeons and trials. Solo duties are an introduction to status ailments and stacking mechanics at best, nothing else.

[DracotheDragon]

Oh nooooo
Someone will be able to pick different difficulty level for the fight that has no effect on me and my playing experience whatsoever, absolutely UNPLAYABLE now gg wp SE you destroyed your own gaem!

i feel like we should find that old "the times FFXIV died" thread just to add this to the list now lol