Difficulty of normal content.

[royox]

But you agree that normal raids are casual, right? Because what I played today was not casual difficulty at all.

Unlocked them yesterday.

Cleared 1 on 1st try without dying.
Cleared 2 on 2nd try, wipe was at 15% because a change of mechanic caught us by surprise.
Cleared 3 on 1st try, died once because I didn't see some bombs have a longer wick than others. Noticed it, didn't die again after that.
Cleared 4 on 1st try without dying. I felt it was the easyest of the 3 encounters.


Last time I did "savage" content was on Stormblood and my last EX trial was Hydaelyn during EW launch. i'm hardly a "hardcore player" or "hardcore raider". I really REALLY don't see all those things you listed:

-Use and abuse of non standard telegraphs.

In every raid set almost every boss has it's own new non-standard telegraph that is easy as F to tell once you see it once. I really don't understand what you are talking about.

-Nasty mech overlaps, stuff you would see on extreme and harder fights.

Mechanic overlaps have been a thing in normal raids since Heavensward. Brute justice comes to mind (when all the parts separate and start doing all the mechanics at once, Alexander himself (time stop, 2 players marked with aoe damage, 1 player marked with stacking marker, black aoes scattered on the floor). Several in Omega, several in Eden and I'm kinda struggling to remember any in Endwalker...maybe you got TOO SPOILED with how easy the EW content was, that was not standard.

-Mechs resolving too quickly for the mental capacity they demand to process.

That says more about you than about the game if the rest of the players can process and react. Still, maybe the first time it catches you by surprise, "omg what is this what should I d-" dead. It's ok. Now you know it, next time you will react faster. It's a game, dying in a game doesn't matter.

-One too many "catch this!" mech (mechs that have you running around like headless chicken evading seemingly random patterns).

Again, stuff that happens since heavensward.


All I see is a person spoiled by the lack of difficulty that EW had and who is being a bit dramatic about STANDARD stuff that the game had since the first expansion.


Summary: git gud.