February 5th Announcement, Realistic Expectations Thread

[Hyperia]

I am expecting very little, title drop, trailer video and maybe some photos. I think they will save most info for the May event. Due to the lack of pve content, I have been so bored I have not logged in for weeks. I only login enough to maintain my house.

I love the game but I have run out of content. Dungeons have gone from 3 to 1 and I would not be surprised if it goes to 0. The casual content raids and trials have been getting increasingly difficult to the point that is no longer casual but savage lite.

Because of all of this... I have been spending my time in Genshin Impact. I want to come back but I have to have a reason.

[RyuDragnier]

The casual content raids and trials have been getting increasingly difficult to the point that is no longer casual but savage lite.

ROFL. These things are nowhere near Savage level, I say this as somebody who has done Coil and Savage on and off since 2.1. You could make a case for the normal raids feeling like toned down versions of ARR EX fights, but even that would be a stretch. The devs are just now going under the assumption that you at least know how to deal with the bare minimum of mechanics and how to figure them out when you enter these fights, which you should at this point. If you haven't used a level/story skip potion you've been through enough dungeons, alliance raids, trials, and solo instances for you to recognize these mechanics or figure them out relatively quickly and adapt to them.

[Payotz]

The casual content raids and trials have been getting increasingly difficult to the point that is no longer casual but savage lite.

No? If anything, Extreme is the one that's gotten easier that it's so close to being called casual content.

[Aniya_Estlihn]

The casual content raids and trials have been getting increasingly difficult to the point that is no longer casual but savage lite.

No? Not at all. The game was dumbed down to the point where the only real difficult content is Savage and Ultimate, and even that isn't saying much.
It amazes me how the game is honestly the easiest it has ever been and people still claim that it's getting more difficult. Come on now.

Fight design this expansion does assume that you know the bare minimum of mechanics introduced up to this point. Stacks, soaks, pairs, not standing in the obviously telegraphed AoEs, taking tethers, etc., but those are the basics that everyone should know. If that is difficult, I fear this may not be the game for those who continue to struggle with these things this far into the game.