Forced to Raid?

[Shironeko_Narunyan]

I was close to dropping the game when I learned I had to complete CT to progress with the MSQ. I then decided to go through with it, and I hated every minute of it. If they ever do this to me again, I'll definitely not go along with it anymore.

[BelgarathMTH]

I'm with you, @Shironeko_Narunya. I just did the Crystal Tower series and died like 10 times because I had no idea what was going on the whole time. My screen looked like some crazy abstract painting, with people running everywhere like an agitated hornet's nest, and that was with effects set to "limited". I didn't have a clue where to go or what to do, so I just kept trying to keep moving out of anything on the floor and throwing out heals as I could. If I stood still anywhere more than 3 seconds I died. Several times I died when I didn't appear to be standing in anything.

I don't understand the people calling it "easy". I define "easy" as "nobody dies unless they stand in orange."

I was playing White Mage, and I had my FC guild leader co-healing with me in a group. She made it a priority to rez me all those times I died.

This is my second attempt to get into FFXIV, and as before, I loved it up until these required "raids". It's such a horrible experience for me I quit before. If I hadn't been with my FC leader being nice and rezz'ing me, I would have quit now.

I take some comfort in people saying there will be no more of this awfulness required to progress my story experience.

[Avoidy]

I'm with you, @Shironeko_Narunya. I just did the Crystal Tower series and died like 10 times because I had no idea what was going on the whole time. My screen looked like some crazy abstract painting, with people running everywhere like an agitated hornet's nest, and that was with effects set to "limited". I didn't have a clue where to go or what to do, so I just kept trying to keep moving out of anything on the floor and throwing out heals as I could. If I stood still anywhere more than 3 seconds I died. Several times I died when I didn't appear to be standing in anything.

I don't understand the people calling it "easy". I define "easy" as "nobody dies unless they stand in orange."

I was playing White Mage, and I had my FC guild leader co-healing with me in a group. She made it a priority to rez me all those times I died.

This is my second attempt to get into FFXIV, and as before, I loved it up until these required "raids". It's such a horrible experience for me I quit before. If I hadn't been with my FC leader being nice and rezz'ing me, I would have quit now.

I take some comfort in people saying there will be no more of this awfulness required to progress my story experience.

Go into your settings and turn off other players' skill effects. This will make things much easier to see.