Castrum Fluminis is way too difficult

[Ifrinne]

id say keep trying. it took me 5 attempts as well the first time I did it. you only have to pass it once. if you luck out with a good party, it will increase your chance to win. practice makes perfect in the end.

[Niyuka]

Dear OP,
I will assume you are trolling. But in case you are not, or in case anyone agrees with your opinion, I suggest the following perspective:

FFXIV has content for a wide range of players. Most of the game is accessible to you already, requiring little to no playing skills beyond logging in, basic navigation and pressing 1-2-3 in that order repeatedly. However, you are correct that Castrum Fluminis, among other fights in the MSQ, require actual gameplay abilities and may benefit from practice, meaning its possible you fail.
Now, seeing how somebody struggling with Castrum Fluminis has already completed most of Stormblood, you have the core game and 2 full expansions of content available to you already. There will be content further down the road that you will never be able to complete, and you will be equally unhappy when you find out not everything was designed to accommodate entry level playing skill (1-2-3).
As such, and seeing how you seem thoroughly disturbed by having to try multiple times to beat Castrum Fluminis, and will possibly one day encounter even worse content that will leave you angry, lost, sad and confused, I suggest the following: Let Castrum Fluminis be your characters finale. This is YOUR Eorzea, and as so many players here unwilling to extend their gameplay skills to access content they deem hidden behind "walls", you can just decide that having access to months and months of content is enough, and your story ends at the feet of Tsukuyomi (nice feet, too!). you will see players with gear from distant lands and strange bosses that you have never seen, but that would always have been true, no matter how easy Castrum Fluminis is nerfed down to be.

I know players who play less than you, have more responsibilities in RL and still manage to beat the odd Savage raid. Its not the demanding real life that is your wall, its not the overly hard design of castrum fluminis that is the wall - the wall is in YOUR mind. But it would require effort to overcome those walls, and its a game after all ,right?
So I congratulate you on a fitting end to your heroes journey - he/she certainly saved Eorzea enough times before Tsukuyomi finally took her down,right? Let your hero, finally, rest.

[Gula]

Entire thread: STOP! Stop replying! Troll thread alert!
Everyone with a knee-jerk reaction, not even reading the first page: *deep inhale*

[Maero]

You do not have to be "hardcore" or "Elite" like your response to someone was. You keep saying hardcore but is not the case.
Just idk practice more and get a group together that has perhaps cleared to help you out?
Funnily enough one of the EX fights in Shadowbringers was easier then the normal version, why it was that i do not know.

[Malmstrom]

Ok... I only got to this post before I have to comment. Look.. I know I try to look from the view of new players alot. .but you just... NO. I would've defended you until you said THIS. If you can't put in the time to practice your rotations at higher levels then you really have nothing to say on anything being hard. And yes you are trolling, but this.. THIS RIGHT HERE IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS. This here!!!

How does the bait taste? I imagine it tastes like milk right when it goes bad. Like you take a sip and you're like... "Wait, is this..." -slight taste- "...blech, yep."

[monk-dps]

How does the bait taste? I imagine it tastes like milk right when it goes bad. Like you take a sip and you're like... "Wait, is this..." -slight taste- "...blech, yep."

Reguardless if it IS a troll that needed to be said. And it also proves my point in another topic cause there are people who post this shit forreal. People who can't beat easy mode dungeons or fights write the same crap like he just did... and people wonder why we have things like - VERY EASY MODE- and nerfed mechs and easy mode baby dungeons. THIS is why. Even it it IS a troll post.. people have meant things like this and more.

[seros]

Lol she's ez.

[RokkuEkkusu]

Lol she's ez.

Well, she is. Unfortunately, other players make Tsukuyomi much harder than she actually is.

[TheMightyMollusk]

The hardest mechanic in any trial is the other seven players.