Quote Originally Posted by R041 View Post

I think my needs are starting to mostly become more a question of design flexibility, and less of a difficulty issue. If you can throw me in content that's the absolute most difficult bullshit you can, but don't require body checks - I would LOVE to run against that wall over and over. It lets me dip my toes in without forcing the rest of the group to suffer at my expense, potentially causing some social issues along the way. (And boy does XIV have some of them social issues)

I'm also feeling very attacked with all of these "Casuals" being thrown around like XIV only has 2 pieces of content that ever qualifies for Mid-Hard to them.
I can really only think of a few pieces of content where you can run solo and have some sort of difficulty attached to it, and that's all deep dungeons. Running deep dungeons solo has been a pretty fun experience but if I were to refer to your list later, the difficulty scaling on the later floors(150-200 potd, 70-100 on everything else) would be pushing the echelons of "hardcore" gaming, because you need to be prepared with pomanders, know the mob abilities, boss abilities etc etc along with spending significant amount of time on each set of 10 floors. Other content I can think of that might qualify would be... not that much honestly, solo queueing for older extremes to see if you can clear it? BLU Carnivale maybe without looking at guides. If they allowed criterion dungeons to be soloed, I'd be all over that, I think the content itself is nice but I hate being pigeonholed into healer because no one else wants to play it. Oh I suppose duels in bozja and zadnor but that requires quite a bit of preparation and rng to get into(let's not talk about how many times I got passed over before they introduced the fame counter).