Quote Originally Posted by Mahoukenshi View Post
The reason is partially important as it promotes otherwise cheap prejudices. Player A could be the most l33t No. 1 Parser on FFXIV but doesn't care about the MSQ and the forced solo duties, hence he may choose to die once and roflstomp on Very Easy afterwards to get it done with. Did you never notice the many complaints about solo duties? Sure, some were about how "hard" they were but also from the more skilled crowd for being a slog, tedious, uninteresting and so on.

Would it have been better if SQuenix provided difficulty options above "Normal" as well? Sure. Always better to include both spectra than only one, but that would be an entirely different subject.
That's irrelevant since, as I've already stated several times now, my issue has never been about the difficulty of the solo content. if they want to make it easier, then just make it easier. There is no need for different difficulty settings and there won't be any prejudice since everyone will go through the same difficulty if they just made it easier in the first place if they really think it's necessary to get people through this content.