Difficulty of normal content.

[Verdandur]

Normal content is a matter of using your eyes in conjonction with your brain. There is nothing to it.

I feel like the "hardcore casual" want a game that makes them FEEL like they are doing something while doing absolutely nothing.

I despise doing roulettes cause they bore me so much that I instantly lose every ounce of energy I had and fall asleep. The content is so void of any way to create a bit of adrenaline that I have my eyes are on another screen, watching a movie while playing with one hand, half sitted on my chair.

At some point, it's a "Fire burns" situation. You put your hand on something hot, you burn yourself, you never do it again.
You go in an AoE, it kills you, you don't do it again.
Yes, some mechanics needs more thinking, but it's the least amount of thinking you'll have to do in a video game.

I can't play Fromsoft games cause they're destroying me brain. Same for most CoD, Overwatch and so on ... I don't have a lot of reflexes, I'm very easily distracted by everything, so these games aren't for me.
FFXIV is SO far from that or any other MMO's out there. Unless you're doing Extremes, there is nothing happening that is remotely considered hard

[Zuccubus]

I'm sorry but the normal raids definitely are. M1 has very clearly choreographed half arena and cone stuff, with the checkerboard thing that is also pretty easy to understand, the knockback might get you once but it's pretty simple past that. M2 is a bit harder but outside of the heart mode where it's just dodging it's very easy. M3 is really easy, and M4 is cool but quite easy as it gives you a lot of time to react, the clones are very readable after you see them the first time. You might be thinking about it wrong, because a pyrrhic victory is way more satisfying and fun than an easy clear usually, and from the sound of it you were clearing first try?

[VioletCatastrophe]

see entiled player here:
"you need to learn the mechs (you lazy f...) you need to stop being carried by other (you gifting f...), otherwise dont do dungeons, normal raids & ex trials, just AFK in limsa with the crafters only"
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some players are just not as good, incapable to learn it (time restraints, living / distraction restraints, brain or psychological restraints, etc. etc.), not saying content has to remains boring AF, but mechanical difficulty is not the only solution

Well uh, taking away the tone...
You should learn the mechs.
You should probably improve at a game you've put in as much time as it takes to watch all of One Piece enough to not need a hard carry, indeed.
If you can't do the combat content and still want to play, there's plenty of non-combat content indeed, which might be more your speed.

How do you propose the combat content could be interesting without being challenging? Making it more cinematic maybe... but that literally only works the first time you do it.

Making excuses, and yes they are excuses, doesn't help anyone.
Time restraints? You have three years to do it all. If you cant do around 10 dungeons, 12 normal raid fights, about as many trials, and a few other things in that time then maybe the MMO genre just isn't for you. Even just 1 hour a week would give you over 150 hours to do it all.
Living restraints? That's the same point as time restraints.
Brain/psychological restraints? Doesn't stop me. It also infuriates me when people point as the concept of disability to make a point as if we aren't actual people capable of overcoming our limitations miss me with that.

You've probably put at least 300 hours into this game by this point, likely much more. Most people are not struggling after as much experience. If you, or anyone else still is, seek help. Don't demand the content gets changed to appease a small selection of people more interested in making excuses and not trying to improve so that they can go back to more or less AFKing through all the casual content. Because that's the actual entitled take.

[Deejudanne]

why do some people want the entire game to be the same snoozefight?

[Lizvette]

i am fine with an "easy button" being implemented into trust, with ressing and much lowered enemy damage / increased time to handle mechanics, under conditions that:
- you get only 10% of rewards at best
- trusts don't level up
- you don't get loot

you are asking for a visual novel
you, as a player, are getting 0 game experience, neither should your character

[FlorineC]

some players are just not as good, incapable to learn it (time restraints, living / distraction restraints, brain or psychological restraints, etc. etc.)

I really strong disagree here. There's nothing so hard in these normal mode raids that literally anybody who's completed the msq (a prerequisit for unlocking the raid) can't learn in an hour or two at the very most. If you can put in the time to get to level 100, you don't have any time restraints so pressing that you can't figure these fights out. This isn't Ultimate, this isn't Savage, this isn't even Extreme difficulty. If you can do the content required to get here, you are not incapable of learning these four fights (or two fights, as that's all OP did). You just don't want to put the effort in to do it.

[Deejudanne]

I actually struggled in Endwalker, so to me Dawntrail is unplayable

might sound harsh but then maybe this game ain't for you, there's several hundreds of hours of gameplay to get to the point you are now

[Pip_Chick]

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

I respectfully disagree. I quite enjoy the challenge. Normal raids should be easy enough to clear. But not so easy "You can spam 1 button while watching Netflix on the other screen" easy. The markers right now are nothing new, at lvl 100 you should know these basics. The devs have reached quite a nice spot in difficulty. Also, I am a casual player, I don't do EX or Savage since it's too much of a time commitment. And I find these fights engaging and enjoyable. So what if you die? Try again until you learn. If someone is giving you a hard time on that, the block button is an option. The content for all players shouldn't be so toned down that it is a chore and boring to go through.

So no, as a casual player, I don't agree with this. The difficulty right now in DawnTrail is good.

[TrowaParabellum]

The new content is very casual even though its slightly harder the mechanics still arent near EX or Savage. As someone who hasn't done savages or current EXs I find the added challenge to the content I do and can complete is nice and I love going back as a different class and attempt to view it from a different angle.

[AlexanderOrnitier]

the game needs to have doable / non stressd content for the less skilled / less capable / handicapped / etc. players too.., they should be "easy" but not boring (gawd, like the beast tribe quests, they could use more fun / engaging content too.., boring AF AND easy AF..)

It does have it.