Quote Originally Posted by Amarande View Post
* There's a distinct lack of "mid end" content anymore, you get a choice of stuff that anyone who's got any decent MMO, or RPG, or even video game skills at all is going to squash like a bug, or stuff that requires near-perfect play to even hope to clear. What's someone who's pretty handy with games but has less time and energy to practice and is getting older (I'm in my 40s, I'm not a Monster-fueled teenager anymore. Heck, caffeine seems to barely do me any good anymore either!) to do?

This doesn't even seem to just be a XIV issue either (few games still have a smooth endgame progression instead of this cliff, and the ones that do, like WoW, the middle content tends to suffer from reward-tiering issues).
That's for sure a problem I hope they work on at some point. While I'm able to do stuff like savage/ultimate, the only midcore content I can think of is like, EX trials. Normal raids, dungeons, and 24 mans are more for the casual player. More hardcore players have savage/ultimate. Midcore only has EX/unreal.