Difficulty of normal content.

[RetroCas]

All this has been making fights in this expansion frustrating and exhausting.

So learn the fight? Dying will happen. Be it normal content or harder content such as Extremes, Savages and Ultimates. The point is to learn and overcome.

The Honey B fight had me wishing for the healer to not raise me, I was there in the floor, dead for the Nth time, thinking that I don't really want to be on that duty.

This is toxic and if you don't like learning, then maybe don't queue up for things.

I think it was the 4th time I was doing Valigarmanda when I finally managed to finish without dying myself, but that's a moot point when half the party was dead half of the time, even knowing the fight doesn't make it any less of a disheartening experience.

You are going into content with 7 other people. It's a learning experience for all of them. You may have things down pat, but the other 7 people may learn at a slower/faster pace than you. Why is it ok for you to die, but not them?

And yes, this concerns normal raids too even if they are optional content. In fact I gonna take the skip option for this raid tier, something I haven't done since I started playing in SB. And that's the point really, for the most part in the past 3 expansions difficulty for normal content was fair outside of some hiccup here and there.

Ok. Your choice.

I firmly believe that content meant to be done via the duty finder (where you don't choose who you playing with) shouldn't be this level of punishing. And I know that JP people do savage in the duty finder but we don't do that in NA or EU, for better or worse western players doesn't behave like JP players.

This is correct. Having played on Masamune for a very long time while I lived in Japan and going to Gilgamesh once I went home, I can confirm that the raid culture and etiquette there is **VASTLY** different than NA. Comparing JP to NA, to NA players is going to fall on deaf ears. Nobody really cares. And I don't say that to be mean, it's just how it is. I had to learn and adapt myself.

Can casual players have something easy-ish to play? Please?

You had all of Shadowbringers and Endwalker. What are you on about? The game gets boring if everything is too easy. Adapt. Better yourself. Enjoy the content. Going into it with a negative opinion at the start is only going to further hamper your experience.

Posts like this are going to garner attention. Don't make a post crying about something in a public forum, then not expect backlash my guy. Similar to the whole 'Healer strike' that has yet to be felt. Healing is quite fun this expansion and those 'striking' are only losing out. Dunno what to say buddy. In the most friendly of ways, I'll just say this. "Get good."