Difficulty of normal content.

[Infindox]

I don't think Shinryu got nerfed. Back when SB released, a lot of people was trying to do Shinryu without getting their class gear, which helped a lot at the time of release.

(Just replying to yours because it was the newest)

Shinryu wasn't nerfed, it was because most people when they got to that fight had really bad gear on (mostly whatever they picked up from dungeons) and we didn't have the job gear back then like we do now. I remember having to make a PF for that fight just to beat Stormblood; I enjoyed the fight, but never had to do that since and kinda glad I don't.

Yep that’s why I stopped playing. I play casually The story was boring and the content was dead easy. I skipped the extremes in 6.0. Coming back to Dawn Trails it’s even worse. The story is boring and the activities during main story are incredibly dull. Cutscene, click on 3 of those and cutscene. Talk to that guy, cutscene. I wish I skipped all of it.

The dungeon bosses in 7.0 are a bit more refreshing but the whole game is incredibly boring. There’s nothing to work for. Everything is given to you and the way to obtain things are boring.

6.0 relic weapons were the worst. No challenge at all. On top of that I noticed they nurfed the Ascian Prime boss and the moogles hard mode. Which were my 2 favorite bosses to daily.

This game isn't for you then. I can find something to do literally every day I log on, and actually challenging content or at least content I need to pay attention. There's always something to work towards. Though I will agree on the 6.0 relic weapons, they were really bad. Nothing to them.

[RezPls]

Shinryu wasn't nerfed, it was because most people when they got to that fight had really bad gear on (mostly whatever they picked up from dungeons) and we didn't have the job gear back then like we do now. I remember having to make a PF for that fight just to beat Stormblood; I enjoyed the fight, but never had to do that since and kinda glad I don't.

We did have job gear at that level, the level 70 job quest literally hands you a full set of job AF AND a job AF weapon. You just decided to ignore the game telling you every 2 levels to do your quests. Wish the game refused to let you continue on a quest unless you had your full job AF on, since placing you in front of the job AF vendor for the past 3 expansions also doesn't seem to be doing the trick.

The only expansion where (on launch) we didn't go into the final expansion dungeon and trial with AF gear was HW; since we got that AF as the first set of raid tome gear.