Is Endwalkers alliance raid too easy?

[Naven]

Yea, it's definately too easy.
I still don't know how there are toddler level mechanics to dodge that barely even hurt you. Like, if you have super easy dodge stuff then AT LEAST make it hit hard or something. When you combine braindead mechanics and on top of that those do nothing then why even play the game at this point lmao

[Turtledeluxe]

I have some runs that go smoothly and some that are disasters. That means it's tuned perfectly.

[Kaliesto]

As some others said the problem in general with all alliance raids is that the damage is too light on the players.

Remember when Thunder God Cid was kicking lalas, and taking names before he got nerfed? Yeah I wish they had never done that to Cid.

[Bellsong]

The biggest let down of the raid was how boring the final fight was. No big interlude cutscene attack, no second phase, nothing really special. Felt kinda phoned in just using the same exact abilities from previous raids with nothing really special or interesting about them as a mixup.

Unless it was just some extreme meta commentary on how hard SE lazily recycles things?

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Bosses spends so much time staying on ‘tutorial mode’ teaching something we already recognize from previous dungeon/trial/normal/ARs. Like, why do you need Eulogia to spend 2 and a half minute from the start just to show you how to properly solve a left/right/donut TWICE? The Whorl phase up to Eudaimon Eorzea is probably the only part that I genuinely liked alongside Llymlaen’s corridor. Both Eulogia & Llymlaen are my favorite part of the raid.

The first trash pull is a fond reminder of Ridorana trashes. But with so many sustenance from EW capstone kits, all I had to do was to vomit other lesser used buttons that I normally don’t get to use under normal circumstances & go back half paying attention. One of our entire group died in my first run so I’m gonna assume neither of their party member expected that degree of combustion raidwide coming from the sprites, which suffice to say; it’s moot point cause in all my subsequent 8 runs it never happened anymore.

Thaliak was a Zodiark simulator.

Oschon has nothing to be remembered outside stepping into his bad stuff incurs way higher damage than usual.

I’m just gonna say they ‘felt better’ than the first two raids simply because (a) not as power creeped as much yet & (b) it’s not Euphrosyne degree of “let’s mash all differently painted half room cleaves”-garbage. That’s how low I’ve been deconditioned & wishing for something that bites me as much as Weeping City, Dun Scaith, NieR and Return to Ivalice did.

[Connor]

Idk but I wouldn’t say it felt disappointing to me. I mean, it’s not super difficult or anything, but I wouldn’t say it’s the easiest raid in the whole game. I don’t think alliance raids were supposed to be ‘difficult’, they always seemed ‘normal’ to me, like the same difficulty as an msq trial or normal-version raid, so I didn’t really expect any more difficulty than what we got.

There were a couple mechanics that got me on first time for this one, but it wasn’t even solving them mechanically that was the problem, it was that I forgot to turn or spell effects so I could barely see anything lol. It feels like the ‘sensory overload visual diarrhoea’ thing has gotten way out of hand with the alliance raid, in my opinion lol

[Nestama]

Mechanics + being more to the point (also their health seems to be tuned to i625 and not... i640-650. i650 preferably since that's the ilevel of the gear they drop). As I've mentioned multiple times, the Myth bosses spend a long time in tutorial mode, which is a big issues if you + everyone else is not new to the raid. It's like playing a new Pokemon game for the first time, but NPC's still insist/force you learn how to catch a Pokemon.

Take Thaliak for example. In the first minute he's only done: an AoE, a cast for his Tsunami clone and then nothing but auto-attacks for 20 seconds until the (very weak) knockback concludes, to which he then does a stack. Mustadio in the first minute has done: an AoE, tank buster, left/right, right/left and then Maintenance.

SE could have made the first minute more interesting if the stack marker happened during the Tsunami cast + threw in the water orbs into the first one rather than save it for the second one. Better yet, the fights could have started them in their "serious phase" and skip the tutorial parts of their fights entirely. There are good ideas in these raids, but they're locked behind forced tutorials + being scared of making tricky puzzle mechanics (you'd think Thaliak would have more going on during his triangle mechanic. Imagine if we saw MATH MODE return).

[xbahax92]

For me, it's not about the difficulty. Not even if an alliance wipes x times. The Myths of the Realms raids are flashy, colorful and very beautiful. It's a great theme park you can just faceroll.

But personally, alliance raids lack some core lately. They used to have way more group mechanics, locked rooms & adds that need to be dealt with separately. Currently, the newest iteration of the raid, is basically just a dodge-mini game. A flashy one. You can die as many times as you like, but your group will carry you. All you need to do is dodge and brain afk your dps rotation.

[Jeeqbit]

But personally, alliance raids lack some core lately. They used to have way more group mechanics, locked rooms & adds that need to be dealt with separately.

That is a big factor of what has actually changed. They don't seem to want to do group mechanics in casual content anymore, because it results in the trouble people had with Thunder God, or all the casual tanks that didn't know adds tether or which add they were supposed to get. Everything seems to be personal responsibility now, which I don't necessarily have a problem with, but I also don't think it was a problem.

If people wipe to Thunder God and have to abandon, that's okay. It's okay if you can't succeed 100% of the time.

[ForteNightshade]

If people wipe to Thunder God and have to abandon, that's okay. It's okay if you can't succeed 100% of the time.

This is what bothers me with the direction XIV has taken. The dev team seems determined to make casual content one giant participation ribbon. It's okay if we don't immediately succeed just by existing. In fact, that's what makes even easy content fun. Having the game all but hand you a win just robs any sense of engagement. At least for me.