Difficulty of normal content.

[Enjuden]

Um... wow. What I've learned from this discussion is that:

1. I'm eventually going to hit a wall in normal content because the hardcore crowd needs *everything* to be a ball-buster even though they already have their own exclusive modes.
2. The playerbase is not in fact as "friendly and welcoming" as they claim when a significantly large portion of if it so willfully, and happily even, tells people to "GTFO then" when some players run into difficulty.

As someone who only recently touched down in Stormblood, this is the first time I've had to stop and think about how I'm going to do the blue quests because doing so would be adding things to the duty finder where I'll just end up dead weight it seems, or I'll be forced to 100% rely on Trusts for the MSQ the whole way because I would be better off avoiding the majority of the playerbase who clearly doesn't want me in their runs anyway. Is this really what I was subbing for this whole time? To go pure solo because I have neither the confidence to do the upcoming harder content, and because the community wasn't anything like I had been lead to believe?

This has definitely been an eye-opener compared to when I first started playing during Endwalker, and I probably should start treating it more like a single player game to prevent future issues.

Or you could not live in a world of hyperbole and caricature. People on forums are usually not happy with the game. If you want people who are happy about everything, don't look at a forum, especially an official forum.

Literally nobody is asking for normal content to be a ballbuster, they're asking for a difficulty harder than something the director fell asleep to because it is so mind numbingly boring. Just play the game and you'll realize that the 'difficulty increase' is greatly exaggerated, and your opinion on the 'hardcore' is ignorant at best. This isn't Albion.