the normal content is too easy

[IdowhatIwant]

I'm just grateful that the mindset present in threads like this, on the forums, don't really reflect what is experienced in-game.

I strongly dislike this idea that because 'you' find the game "too easy" everyone should. Makes me wonder if some view Zenos (and his 'nothing is challenging enough for me' mindset) as a role-model or something.

Not to call you out, but I read your thread and even gave advice. A lot of your issues were from ping, and laziness of not learning a proper keybind system. There is a difference between being casual, being lazy, and being bad. The first thing I usually do for any game is figure out the controls, and rebind them to what I prefer which I assume is fairly common for most people that play video games.

I would tend to agree with you. There are hard modes for a lot of content that would be more of a challenge for those seeking it. As for myself, I have several conditions, including Parkinson's disease, that make even some of the content done on easy mode still difficult for me to do. I do not know what specifically these proponents of making the game more challenging, are calling for, but if it means that the general level of challenge for everything gets raised, it might make this game no longer playable for me. I like the game as it is now.

There are ways for the game to play easier for you while increasing the difficulty. And that would simply be to give us an option to make combos a single button press vs 2 or 3 different button sequences. I know every one hates add ons, but dalamud apparently does have that feature and may assist you.

Agreed. I just finished Heavensward and I have to say the boss battle against King Thordan was...Unsatisfying. He literally got rekt'd. We steamrolled him and none of the party members' health fell below 80% the entire fight. I am not asking for harder mechanics but at least scale the hitpoints and damage of the boss based on the party's average item levels.

Sadly that is how it was on release as well. But the extreme version was some actual good content.

Would you rather we get only 1 raid update every 12 months instead? Or how about no raid updates for 3 years like swtor and when it finally did get one it was a single boss and the rest of the raid was added in piece by piece over the course of a year?

FFXIV has more consistent content updates than any other MMO out there.

Consistent does not always mean good. FFXIV has a quantity over quality issue in many cases. And a lack of longevity in all cases.