Quote Originally Posted by SturmChurro View Post
More difficult 4 player content would be great, it's really too bad. This kind of content would presumably be easier to organize as well. Their battle team is stretched thin, so I guess they are just going to continue catering to these players. It's an issue of this or that in terms of battle content, and it sucks that we cannot get more content that would cater to players that actually put a bit of effort in their play.
This really bums me out. I always am reminded of when an npc died in my archer or bard quest early on in my journey and seeing you could put the duty on easy, very easy, normal, but there were no higher difficulty to practice the class. I know people struggled with content, there are some who do not wish to even try and troll others, but there are the people who log in to the game every day looking to learn, looking for a challenge. The millions of tutorial pop ups are great and all, but I suck and reading things without context sometimes(okay all of the time) all of it kind of bleeds together especially when coupled with ARR exposition dumping.

I will never forget the drk in a prog group for Nidhogg extreme who posted the wiki guide at the beginning of the fight. I can't memorize an entire wiki guide and assimilate the knowledge, and I wished to prog the fight not read the wiki. Though the same drk must have deemed 'shirk' not a worthy skill and removed it from their bar like the manliest of men, this fight was made harder by those not playing well and gave me a way to work my brain to come up with a solution to tank swapping with them. Something I know to be true with this and other content, is if they all knew what to do, the fight would go super fast and I would have learned nothing. When a boss phase skips everything in a dungeon or trial how I am meant to, as a player who wishes to learn, know a phase that never happens until we get johnny no combo and mistress aesthetic animation art snob. This really should not be the case. I should not be wishing for prog teams to learn new things about fights.

I know it will never happen, and I can already go into fights via party finder minimum ilvl sync into a Trial to learn, but the fact that you can brute force through Garuda extreme with a team who doesn't say anything, rapid fire pulls, and beat their heads into a wall without speaking until the echo lets them phase skip and survive mechanics is just freaking sad. Sometimes I truly wonder if I am playing with humans or machines. This is not without the millions of times I have enjoyed content, but alot about this whole mentality, even square is catering to, just really bums me out. Just go make a mobile ff14 game and be done with it like Aion did, though they just released Aion classic as well, so their dumbing down clearly was not paying out anymore.

I will await patiently, and if they ruin all of the classes further, and dumb things down more and not even add something nice for those who wish for a challenge I suppose it will be time to move on from ff14. I have not been keeping up with the news but if there is no deep dungeon in endwalker I shall be sad. At the least, Swtor is releasing an update, they dumbed down some of the stats in that game, but it has some challenge group content maybe with the update there will be more people on to queue with.