Difficulty of normal content.

[KristianFortNox]

It's a core mechanic tho, You need to look at the boss Animation if they raised up their arms or leg. You need avoid that side or inside.

[roasche]

If you're that bad at the game, level up your trusts and go in with them. The past 2 expansions have been cake walks, to where even YoshiP was falling asleep doing dungeons. Holy moly, the entitlement of expecting SE to dumb down things because you're too scared of failing is not their problem, that is a YOU problem.

You can use "anxiety" all you want, a lot of people have it too and still learn to fail then get back up. It's not always about you, or the minority. DT difficulty is perfect where it's at and I hope they keep making good mechanics that trip players up that cause them to fail but learn. You can learn if you ACTUALLY TRIED to learn.

We are level 100 at this point. If you've even remotely learned from all the dungeons, normal raids, past savages, trials, etc, you wouldn't be complaining or using it as an excuse to have a "learning cap" or "skill cap". I understand anxiety, as I am medically diagnosed with that and bipolar disorder but I still push through and learn. I fear failing but I do. Take the little steps and fail with trusts, then fail with friends, then fail with randoms. Learn that it's not that bad to fail, it's not the end of the world if you cause a wipe. This is a game, not a job or life, learn to enjoy it or go play something you do enjoy. There is content for everyone and some may not be for others.

[VioletCatastrophe]

You can use "anxiety" all you want, a lot of people have it too and still learn to fail then get back up. It's not always about you, or the minority. DT difficulty is perfect where it's at and I hope they keep making good mechanics that trip players up that cause them to fail but learn. You can learn if you ACTUALLY TRIED to learn.

We are level 100 at this point. If you've even remotely learned from all the dungeons, normal raids, past savages, trials, etc, you wouldn't be complaining or using it as an excuse to have a "learning cap" or "skill cap". I understand anxiety, as I am medically diagnosed with that and bipolar disorder but I still push through and learn. I fear failing but I do. Take the little steps and fail with trusts, then fail with friends, then fail with randoms. Learn that it's not that bad to fail, it's not the end of the world if you cause a wipe. This is a game, not a job or life, learn to enjoy it or go play something you do enjoy. There is content for everyone and some may not be for others.

I totally agree. It's honestly really infuriating to me when people use 'anxiety' or other medicalizations as an excuse. I have a lot of shit going on. Anxiety just one of them. Learning this game, getting good at it, and feeling accomplished for beating hard content... that's actually really good for my anxiety. It is nice to have a controlled place to get that feeling of autonomy and agency that helps assuage anxiety. Or maybe raiding in groups and communicating despite being autistic, it's beneficial to me. I could oh so easily point to my alarming litany of messed-up-ness and be like 'yeah sorry I just can't do it I'm literally incapable' but in reality the issue would be myself.

Like honestly, people need to quit with the victim complex, recognize that they are not the only ones with problems, and then do better. I can think of countless raiders I have played with, and myself included who would be delighted to mentor a player who wants to improve. Nobody is born good at FF14, the concept of that alone is absurd. The ones who are good had to learn how to be good.

Maybe it hurts to realize just how behind the curve you have been in the game this entire time. This content genuinely is not hard. You just had your lower skill level masked by trivial content in EW and to a lesser extent ShB. What you are seeing now less not an unfair jump up, it is an appropriate iteration of the difficulty curve, one which is long due, and if you are struggling this is your sign to find the right resources to improve to keep up. But demanding that SE instead revert content back to the absolute snoozefest of EW is absolutely unacceptable and entitled - most players are having an absolute blast, and you don't get to ruin that for everyone else.