Why do people avoid getting better at the game?

[kaynide]

Uh, from what I've heard Ifrit (Hard) when it was relevant actually *was* harder than modern Cognazzo. I wasn't around then, but I've heard it was actually fairly challenging when it was released (as was Titan(Hard)!)

Don't compare level early leveling dungeons to level cap dungeons. Compare it cap to cap.

It was more to do with the mechanics being very punishing and/or a need to grind out gear just to survive their limit breaks. This was a time when you needed to get ultima jewelry and use vit+ materia on your white mage just to have enough hp. And/or grind tomestone gear just to get a specific amount of HP.

Also…In essence, Ifrit was a DPS check, Titan was a “watch the ground” check, and Garuda was a Tank check (had to provoke and hold the Chirada/what’s her face away from each other).

I’m over simplifying, but that was kind of the beginning of insta-kill with no rez for mistakes and/or tank swaps.

With current trials, it is (and should be) entirely reasonable to clear them as long as you do mechanics right with the minimum ilvl required for the fight. In the Wild West days of FFXIV, this wasn’t necessarily a thing. Materia (and grinding out materia) played a much bigger role.