Difficulty of normal content.

[Mooserocka33]

Okay so here's my take. For starters, I'm 45 and I was born with epilepsy (not photosensitive), but I have loved games since my mom brought home an Atari console when I was a kid. Fast forward and I have now had brain surgery and suffered a stroke, but I still love playing games. I have worked hard to not let my disability get in the way of my love for games and my love for FFXIV. However, the increase in difficulty for DT has made the side effects of my disability clear. I have maxed every job in every new content release for FFXIV and mastered their rotations but no matter how good I am at the jobs I play my ability to react to certain mechanics before taking a hit or remember the order in which certain boss skills will activate has been greatly diminished with DT. I've made mistakes and I've taking plenty of debuffs from not reacting fast enough in the past. I'm not a perfect player but it's disheartening that the difficulty increase in DT has pushed me to a level of difficulty I fear I may not be able to surpass. I know with every new expansion there comes new challenges and eventually you learn what you need to do, and it becomes to new norm. I really want to continue enjoying FFXIV but I feel like those of us with disabilities are not even a consideration when developing new content. I don't even participate in extremes, savages, or ultimates because I know my limits and that I will never be able to do anything beyond casual content. I worry now that even casual content will be beyond my ability to play and the thought of it makes me feel despair because FFXIV has helped me so much with my depression and now I feel like I'm falling back into that pit.

I am sorry about your disabilities but they do make content for people with disabilities, main story content, dungeons with trusts, some trials with trusts, Gardening , fishing , fates, I am not trying to be mean but why would they make things easier and have more access on the higher end of content? The percentage of people with disabilities that play the game are like .5 percent maybe . They should not cater to that little of a percentage. You have plenty of things in the game to enjoy , and the community is nice , i am sur if you tell them your situation people will be glad to go with you and basically carry you its no biggie. I would love to help if someone needed it. I just dont get the kinda selfishness of wanting stuff to be toned down for a .5 percentage of the playerbase while the majority will end up being bored with the game and doing other things.

[Deslyxic]

Just so we are perfectly what I am asking for is to return to the same difficulty level of SB, ShB and EW when it comes to normal dungeons, trials and raids.
And to all the people giving me tips on how to play, thank very much but I've been playing for 6 years, might not be a 1.0 players but I know how to play the game, and I stand by what I wrote in the OP, there is a clear jump on difficulty in normal content compared to the last 3 expansions and if you don't notice it congratulations on being a big d!ck player, I guess.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

Just so we are perfectly what I am asking for is to return to the same difficulty level of SB, ShB and EW when it comes to normal dungeons, trials and raids.

The problem with that is a high amount would like the difficulty returned from ARR :P

[Saraide]

Just so we are perfectly what I am asking for is to return to the same difficulty level of SB, ShB and EW when it comes to normal dungeons, trials and raids.
And to all the people giving me tips on how to play, thank very much but I've been playing for 6 years, might not be a 1.0 players but I know how to play the game, and I stand by what I wrote in the OP, there is a clear jump on difficulty in normal content compared to the last 3 expansions and if you don't notice it congratulations on being a big d!ck player, I guess.

You say you know how to play but then you also get filtered by normal raids which makes me doubt you actually know how to play. Many telegraphs should be self explanatory to someone who knows how to play the game because they are atmost remixes or stuff that has to be logical to anyone paying attention like the short fuse, long fuse bombs on Round 3.
Yes, you can get caught off guard. It happened to us on the donut shape attack Round 2 opens with or with the half arena cleave in Round 3 that actually works like a hashmal dash but please when you are in the raid for the first time, focus on looking at the mechanics over looking at your hotbar. I think many players have their eyes glued to their hotbars and then wonder why they couldnt react to boss tells in time. Bosses telegraph their attacks through other means than just orange puddles on the ground.

[Elkanah]

And to all the people giving me tips on how to play, thank very much but I've been playing for 6 years, might not be a 1.0 players but I know how to play the game

6 years? Lol. And you still can't be bothered to do mechanics and learn? This expansion so far has done nothing but hold your hand up until the raids that released today. I've been playing since 1.0, but calling players d!cks just cause you can't be bothered to learn? You want everything to be face roll easy and afk with 1 button wins, from what it sounds like. People thinking this is darksouls level of difficulty on an expansion that's been holding your hand through all the content up to the cap lmaaaaooooo.

[HereticJay]

Just so we are perfectly what I am asking for is to return to the same difficulty level of SB, ShB and EW when it comes to normal dungeons, trials and raids.
And to all the people giving me tips on how to play, thank very much but I've been playing for 6 years, might not be a 1.0 players but I know how to play the game, and I stand by what I wrote in the OP, there is a clear jump on difficulty in normal content compared to the last 3 expansions and if you don't notice it congratulations on being a big d!ck player, I guess.

What a waste of 6 years

[kingskye]

Just so we are perfectly what I am asking for is to return to the same difficulty level of SB, ShB and EW when it comes to normal dungeons, trials and raids.
And to all the people giving me tips on how to play, thank very much but I've been playing for 6 years, might not be a 1.0 players but I know how to play the game, and I stand by what I wrote in the OP, there is a clear jump on difficulty in normal content compared to the last 3 expansions and if you don't notice it congratulations on being a big d!ck player, I guess.

you didnt play stormblood, because there was a leap in difficulty (the burn says hi, eureka the side content also says whats up) that was prevalent when the game came out, the game started being easy in shb...and it was grossly worse in endwalker...people get better from experiences...and people need to get off this high horse that they are too good to fail...just get better at the game...i died multiple times in the lvl 100 dungeons...but? after the 5th time, it was same old stuff lol

[Sacae]

you didnt play stormblood, because there was a leap in difficulty (the burn says hi, eureka the side content also says whats up) that was prevalent when the game came out, the game started being easy in shb...and it was grossly worse in endwalker...people get better from experiences...and people need to get off this high horse that they are too good to fail...just get better at the game...i died multiple times in the lvl 100 dungeons...but? after the 5th time, it was same old stuff lol

Giving some context to your post.
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/343618
We've been here before.

[Wasusu]

If after 6 years of playing XIV you find current normal raids too difficult you don't know how to play the game