A Challenge Reborn

[NonaLaggia]

I thank every new Warrior who joins this conversation. I am really happy to see all your opinions and thoughts, and I am grateful for your honesty.
I continue to read all of your thoughts and still agree with every single one of you.
I will try to sum up everything since my last post and I will do my best I can, to pick up everything you told me.
I have to mention that I will try to heat up the told a little.

As I read, you told me about lack in classes and being overgeared. But also lack in complexity and experience we made over the months and years of playing.

Let me start with the first mentioned, the classes.
You say, that the classes we have and play - gotten easier and lost their complexity over the years, got simplified and have gotten monotone to play. The challenge here was purified to a general role model, a unification to all classes from one and the same role. This is something we noticeably see in ShadowBringers. The focus on making every class fitting their role as best as it can. This is no wrong move from the gods of Eorzea, but is it needed to simplify the classes to one and the same feeling? Taking the challenge and the individuality from one class to make "three big classes" with little to no differences? Playing a class, in my point of view, makes people feel confident, they begin to feel some kind of special. This is taken from them and the challenge to learn one class best, with them. You start to feel like one of many, but in reality people always strive to be special. We do not want to be the same, we want to have our own place in this world.
That said, that I do not think that this is something the gods expected to happen, but they wanted to make every class fit best with the role they are in. I think that happened because they unified and I hope that this kind of challenge returns with the events(patch) around Eorzea. But the fear continues, that the challenge in this place could vanish, once and for all.

[NonaLaggia]

Being overgeared is indeed something we see a lot and with every new book(AddOn) we open, this kind of thing does become even more obvious. To get back to my example with the Crystal Tower.
An average run in ARR of the first stage took us, with 120 mins. of time, approx. 50 mins., sometimes even more. Nowadays with the current book open, we are there for an average of 20 mins.. I have not to decline the fact, that we are now more experienced than before and we know all the moves and things we have to do there. But did you know, that you had to kill skeletons at the first boss of the undead dragon? And that adds are spawning in this fight? That in the three lined stage, the tank had to pull the adds to the group with the pressure plate, before they go to get a coffee? That the magic pod at the second boss can move too? And as last example, that the adds at Behemoth aren’t just decoration? All that love and passion the gods put in, got forgotten and with that our challenge. To move on from the Crystal Tower itself, we can look at Sastasha. The first dungeon in the game. Being overgeared can be a real time safer over here, but shouldn’t it be the first real group lesson for a new Warrior? Isn’t it the place were the Warrior becomes one with his class and learns all the moves he has to do, to be one with the people who accompany him or her?

What I meant with challenge and I have to apologize, is not just the fact that we have something specific to kill or to eliminate. It is the feeling to overcome ourselves. To master something we wish to master, again a milestone as big as we wish it to be. May a class we love to learn or just look great with the people around you.

I know there are people out there who cannot visit Eorzea all the time, who are on a venture themselves. But don’t you wish for yourself, a feeling like you had before? Finding something special in that world you have already seen, what you have not seen before? I think that this can be reached within one world. You do not have to explore a new world, if you love this one. That is the only thing I will disagree.

[NonaLaggia]

With a new book, a new adventure begins. But the feeling of the old adventure will never vanish. The world can be explored, changes be found. It is not about being here for a long time, it is about finding something new we had not seen before. The little changes and details in the old world we used to know.

With that said, I know that many of you visit the for a long time now. But would you love, if the gods decided to change a little detail from event to event in the old world we know? It does not have to be painted new, but a little detail that would make to world more alive? This would be a new challenge for us. A new world, even changed so little, to explore.

I think that this is enough for now.
I thank you all for your time and the honesty. I invite again everyone to join this conversation, be it the Warriors or the gods for themselves.

Thank you for reading.
(In future I will try to write less )