Difficulty of normal content.

[Banggugyangu]

You and your ilk have spent over 100 pages and 1,000 posts obsessing over OP for posting an opinion. Not only that, but you lash out with ad hominems against anyone who defends OP. This doesn’t look good for Final Fantasy XIV. At this point, I don’t think the community can be saved. Let’s hope World of Warcraft’s new expansion is good and Blizzard can nurture a better community than this one. It’s sad that a multibillion-dollar corporation gets people to attack each other because it can’t fix the net code or the hitboxes in M2.

Have you read the same thread as I have? The majority of responders in this thread sympathize with the OP despite not agreeing with his/her points. In my own posts, I don't agree with the OP, but I offered sympathetic advice on steps to take. With this response, I'm confident that you're attempting to troll the thread and nothing more, and to that, I would say move on. If you think it's "funny", it's not. There are trolls who are actually witty and funny, but none of what I've seen from you in this thread has been such. This thread is comprised of the following: ~5% people who are what some would call "elitist" attacking the OP and kin for their lack of skill, ~85% players fully capable of completing the content in a reasonable amount of time that are quite happy with the slight upscale in difficulty that this expansion brought, ~5% in the same boat as the OP, and ~5% like you, apparently trying to get internet clout by trolling and/or derailing the thread.

That large majority of us who are happy with the difficulty are so present and vocal in this thread because we DO NOT WANT IT TO REVERT. We like this shift up in difficulty. We think that after 100 levels of game, it's a welcome adjustment that has scaled with how our skill level should have grown over that time. We also feel that this difficulty IS NOT HARD... just more difficult than previous. Again, I'll point out that Seat of Sacrifice Normal is harder than practically every fight in this expansion. Seat of Sacrifice normal is in league with Zodiark Extreme. None of the Normal Difficulty fights in Dawntrail, so far, have even come remotely close to ANY extreme fight's difficulty. Yet despite this, several are claiming that Shadowbringers was so much easier. Yeah.... Innocence was easy.... the rest were pretty much on par with all of this. Also... with the "non-standard markers" point, it seems we all forgot about E4? Titan consisted of almost all non-standard markers despite standard mechanics. All of this was present in previous expansions.

[VioletCatastrophe]

With this response, I'm confident that you're attempting to troll the thread and nothing more, and to that, I would say move on.

This is a person who made an entire thread to criticize the netcode of the game. My wife did ultimate prog with me while having transatlantic ping, and the netcode was just fine to consistently prog the hardest fight in the game (at the time: TEA, on release) without lag or the ability to weave ever being an issue. Not a single plugin or other tool of dubious ToS-compliance required. They are a person who has been consistently blaming the game for being imbalanced, the game for having bad netcode, other players for being apparently toxic despite most posts being very diplomatic in their disagreement and offering actionable advice to those who are struggling.

If they aren't a troll, then they are simply just a person who cannot take responsibility for their own shortcomings and subsequently insist that the problem lies with every other person. It's pretty sad, really. In personal affairs, and in game, I have been doing my best to be the best I can be. So I can't help but be at least a little put off, if not outright offended by their attitude. I think it's best in general to just ignore them and move on, which sure kind of ironic in this post but I'm going to do the same too.

In any case, the content is great I'm glad only a very small minority are actually taking issue with it.