Feedback: Dawntrail MSQ dungeon difficulty

[Jinglypockets]

If you can react to a traffic light turning green before the old guy behind you honks, you can play this game just FINE..

I just need you to know this made me lol.

I'd say most people's problem is less reaction speed and more information filtering. Filtering through all the visual noise and focusing on the right things is a learned skill. We all struggle with it to an extent, especially when we're playing difficult (for us) content and start to feel overwhelmed.

The Spread/donut wall on Ex2 is a great example of this for me. It took me a lot of tries on that fight before I could solve that one consistently because I had a hard time filtering out all the visual noise to pay attention to which AOEs were coming while moving to the right spot for the boss AOE. It helped when I realized you get like 10 seconds before the boss AOE actually goes out, which is a good lesson for almost every fight I've ever done in this game:

If you keep making a mistake on a mechanic because you feel like you don't have time, the solution is almost always to calm down, read your cues, and take it slow.

[Zolvolt]

I'm just confused how you don't clear the fight with trusts. Litterally stand on them and you win.

[VioletCatastrophe]

Literally what was too difficult? Is it really that difficult to imagine that the content is getting harder because they are assuming you have the experience of everything that came before it (because you well... you do...)? Every boss literally has a mechanic where you can fail it and still live, to show you what that mechanic does. And then puts it on top of something else too later in the fight and then if you mess that one up enough to get hit by both you die. Look at the boss's cast bar and animations. You have like 10 seconds to react. The game deliberately pulls its punches to show you the mechanics in a tutorialized way.

Unless you are literally operating with no working memory and never consider how prior mechanics both in that fight and general patterns from previous fights will come up later, there's nothing bad in there. I don't know how to say this in a gentle manner. Just... pay attention? And stop blaming the game for not playing itself. This is probably the easiest MMO in the entire market, nothing is being turned into dark souls. Not even ultimates are dark souls lmao. This game has always been about pattern recognition, and staying calm under pressure. These are useful and important life skills. I promise you, if you just calm down, look around, and think about the way mechanics could be overlapped after a new one is introduced, you'll be fine. Worst case scenario it is a dungeon, just make sure you only get hit by one aoe instead of two at the same time and it'll work out.

[Besame]

I have a right to speak here about changes I would like w/o giving you my medical information and not get bullied for it. I am saying a change that would help me without whining that every dungeon/trial are too difficult. They are not imo. That is exactly what some of you are doing to others voicing their concerns, BULLYING, chastising, making fun overall presenting a very toxic environment for seniors and the handicapped on a public forum. This is why even though I love the game, I mainly play alone BUT take your Gil on the MB if you are too busy leeting it up or low IQ to make stuff yourself *chuckle*. Anyway, I'm done with those that mock, Bes out.

[Kaizel]

...I mainly play alone BUT take your Gil on the MB if you are too busy leeting it up or low IQ to make stuff yourself *chuckle*

You're probably just selling to other people who barely play the game and only do MB or crafters, if there's someone trying to gear up seriously or they're too lazy to gring they're probably doing hunt trains and getting the equipment for free with new tomes.

Hunt trains barely take any time, hit enemy once in a party and you get the full reward per monster and you can use the nuts to get new materia...And poetics gear tend to last for 6 levels or so.
As a crafter myself I've been on mb too, until I got the large house and realized I don't really need the gil other than buying minions and mounts,thanks to hunt train magic, that's what i've recommended to everyone.

My old mentor once told me:
They are the most cheap and efficient method to gear yourself and not waste gil in what's basically Fast Fashion ingame

[Besame]

You're probably just selling to other people who barely play the game and only do MB or crafters, if there's someone trying to gear up seriously or they're too lazy to gring they're probably doing hunt trains and getting the equipment for free with new tomes.

Hunt trains barely take any time, hit enemy once in a party and you get the full reward per monster and you can use the nuts to get new materia...And poetics gear tend to last for 6 levels or so.
As a crafter myself I've been on mb too, until I got the large house and realized I don't really need the gil other than buying minions and mounts,thanks to hunt train magic, that's what i've recommended to everyone.

My old mentor once told me:
They are the most cheap and efficient method to gear yourself and not waste gil in what's basically Fast Fashion ingame

IMO,this game is mostly about your wardrobe be it crafted or won and enough hit points so you can manage to not get smashed when you hunt, fate, etc hehe. I play for myself, my blacklist is legendary after dealing with MMOers for almost 30 yrs. It's all good, I have a cute lil FC with subs deep diving constantly and a rocking med house to boot. Only reason I posted here was to shout out my view about what would give me a hand at this stage of my life. I do not want to change things for others, just enhancement choices for those that choose to use for a bit of help. People appear to even balk at things that are none of their biz or have negative or cruel remarks. I'd say those folks are the miserable ones. How can they get all butt-hurt when something doesn't even affect them??? If something does not please me and I do/say nothing then shame on me.

[Alakazamtrainer]

As someone who plays the extrememly casual, i disagree whole heartedly! I found the dungeons of DT far more enganging (save that turtle) then previous expansions. So please, and i mean please, dont ruin this for others who are finding this enjoyable, its level 100, nothing we saw wasnt seen before, its just a different indicator.

[EiraWoqiso]

I understand those with medical issues making these dungeons significantly more difficult than intended, but genuinely if you're playing in a party - NOT trusts - then these dungeons are fine. If you're tanking they might be more difficult since you going down quickly leads to others going down, but that aside you can easily be carried through these dungeons. Yes, even Strayborough.

imo, these dungeons are the perfect difficulty. Difficult enough that you actually have to pay attention, you might wipe a couple times, and you actually need to use your kit. Old dungeons are... mindless. You can go through most dungeons in the game giving 60% of your attention to a Youtube video on the side and 40% to the game. The content being a little difficult finally made the lower-than-extremes battle content fun for the first time since, like... original Thunder God?

[lolnah]

OP, I mean this with no malice whatsoever but you really should play more games if you think the DT dungeons are anywhere near Soulsborne difficulty.

[Higashikata]

it's fine, try playing with the trusts