As a new player I really enjoyed the story and the dungeons. Everything is really fun so far. There is, however, a huge difficulty spike at Lv 46. The game has up to this point basically let you do the MSQ and that's enough XP for everything but suddenly you needed to grind 3 levels to unlock the next quest when you're at Lv46, which is pretty grindy since you have to grind a Lv41 dungeon to level.

Then I got to Rhitatyn which seems to be one of the first solo trials in the game. At first I thought it was pretty cool and the mechanics like the earthquake mechanic got me a few times but it was super cool. But the fight was literally like 3 times as long as any fight you have been in up to this point, had like 4 phases with different mechanics. The last phase was also just basically impossible. Maybe I'm not getting it but I just died so much to it because he literally just locks you and burns you and you can't do anything about it. I had to try like 5 times, go on very easy, and even buy better gear just to beat him. It's just a huge difficulty spike that kinda took the fun out and killed the tension of the game.

And then once you get to Lahabrea it became even more insane. It was just new mechanics after new mechanics the game throws at you and every time you make a mistake it takes half of your health away. That fight also took me like 3 tries.... which is kinda weird when the dungeons were not that bad.

I don't know if it's just me but the difficulty spikes are kinda insane IMO and probably need a nerf. I also hope the rest of the game isn't like this and gets harder and harder. I really don't want to play a hardcore game :/ Any advice?