This game needs to be harder

[Sindele]

It might sound unintuitive, but making things harder at the baseline in MMOs doesn't actually get rid of people who don't know how to play their class all that well, historically. It doesn't even really gate them very much, because there's always ways to slip through the cracks and get carried or get lucky or just plain bash your head into it until it somehow works. You can go all in on systems like mythic+, but people still find ways to game scores and sneak through there too, and you get a whole heaping serving of fractal toxicity along with it.

Basic competency testing for boosters, sure, that makes sense. Beyond that? Lot of babies in that bathwater - be careful what you're throwing out.

[Avoidy]

For me, that moment was The Burn. I wasn't playing WHM well at all and was ignoring most of my kit 'cause I'd never needed to use it. But that dungeon forced me to learn how to recognize esuna-able debuffs and forced me to use my lilies and blablabla because the last boss pushed our shit in. To this day, it's a dungeon I actually don't mind doing. It'll be a shame when they nerf it for Trusts.

[Zairava]

I do miss msq dungeons being a bit harder, and I do believe they should be. If they make it mindlessly easy due to trust AI, fine.

The real thing that inherently frustrates the hell out of me is making the optional endgame content just as easy, if not easier than leveling dungeons.

Large-scale content is my crack in MMO's. They peaked at Ridorana and Orbonne for alliance raids and it's been downhill since.

Normal raids are good on launch but the way they design fights makes them become boring after a few runs unless they have some bite to them.

[Xirean]

A big part of this could be remedied by the inclusion of features like "Hall of the Intermediate", "Hall of the [Job Name] level 70", etc.
If someone does use a skip either for story progression or class progression, then make it a requirement to complete a system like this BEFORE they are allowed to que into just about anything. Also make job stones required to be equipped unless in a full premade party for anything beyond level 35ish.

[Aravell]

I agree that the game doesn't do a very good job at teaching people how to play their job properly. They do actually have an avenue to teach people the baseline of their job though, the job quests. See how RDM, RPR, SGE and DNC all have an opening job quest instance that gives you a quick rundown on the basics of the job and how the job is meant to be played, I think every job could use something like that to teach people the baseline of how the job they just unlocked functions.

[sindriiisgaming]

bumping because titanman alt posts are boring and this is actually legitimate complaint with the game

[KitingGenbu]

Personally, I feel like if you're doing something with Trusts, you shouldn't get loot at all. I also feel like there should be a Trust version of a dungeon and a 4man version. They could've made their Trust version to run along side the 4man instead of just changing them all. Then again, that would probably cost them more money and time so we can't have that....

As an aside, does anyone miss the times when things were either less telegraphed or visual telegraphed at the last second? Cyclop moves come to mind.

[Aldath]

Everything Yoshi P touches lately assumes you're an idiot unfortunately. That seems to be his recipe for attracting a wider audience...you know in the years Elden Ring and BG3 are dominating video game discourse.

Yoshida seriously is stuck in the 360/PS3 era of trying to appeal to a certain demographic without understanding what makes it want to play a game in the first place.
Look, I know it's a meme to say "FFXIV players suck", but I don't think so. The game has historically had balancing issues in terms of encounter design: very easy and predictable series of mechanics followed by hard hitting, cryptic ones, but this seems to be an exception and not the rule.

There are some very fun battles in this game though that can still be risky enough, so credit where it's due. Have you tried playing through the Omega raids lately? They hold up pretty nicely in terms of challenge. That said, we have an issue where difficulty feels artificially lower because of ilvl sync issues, and on the other hand, most of the older content seems to be played by Veterans that have already cleared them ad-nauseam, meaning that you are in a party where most likely only 2 people have no idea of the mechanics and it leads to a well geared group of players with experience trivializing the encounter for sprouts. BOTH sides will of course feel the game is absolutely easy.

TL;DR: Game is mostly fine, it's just crap syncing and lack of a fresh playerbase involved in more than just MSQ content that makes it seem easier than it really is. Sync stuff properly and then you'd have players actually having to pay attention.

[Snorky]

Personally, I feel like if you're doing something with Trusts, you shouldn't get loot at all. I also feel like there should be a Trust version of a dungeon and a 4man version. They could've made their Trust version to run along side the 4man instead of just changing them all. Then again, that would probably cost them more money and time so we can't have that....

As an aside, does anyone miss the times when things were either less telegraphed or visual telegraphed at the last second? Cyclop moves come to mind.

I don't agree with this because they have to future proof this game if they intend to keep it going. Every piece of MSQ content that involves a dungeon raid or trial should be able to use a trust. Because trust me this game will wane and fall in population and it will be near impossible for any new person who comes along trying to play it. As far as loot why would you gate keep it, this game really isn't about the phat loots. But that is my opinion, also keeping the side raids and dungeon content non trustable is fine. But you should want everyone to experience the story content in whatever way is viable.

[Ivtrix]

I don’t think the game needs to get harder baseline but there need to be more optional content that is harder

It should be more of a slope into endgame instead it’s more like scaling a cliff