Difficulty of normal content.

[Kiurt]

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.

1)You don't have to worry about hitting a wall, you still have plenty of content to go to get there. As long as you know how to do in/out/stack/spread and avoid half room cleaves (once you reach Endwalker, you'll eat these mechs A LOT), you should be fine. It's still the same in Dawntrail, they're just either coming a bit faster (fights are mostly more dynamic, not HARD by any means, your average player clears it fine) or in a less telegraphed way.

2)I won't say you're wrong, but I won't say that you're right either. It's all about context in this case. Most players wouldn't mind helping someone, teaching how to do something or giving some tips. But in this case, there was no discussion to being with. OP stated his opinion, people tried to help, give their opinions, counter-argument and all, but it all ended as soon as OP said "I've played the game for 6 years !". And right after tried to victimize himself by blaming content creators (when people were already disagreeing with him BEFORE) for all of this, ignoring what people were saying. At this point, it was obvious that person is selfish and just want to seek validation.

It is a MMO game, you'll obviously meet all kind of people, and forums aren't representative of a community as a whole. If you're having trouble in a dungeon or a raid, if you do not mind communicating with your team, or accept the help of others, you'll do just fine.
But do not expect the magical perfect community.

To also add, a tip that I should apply to myself => AVOID FORUMS (or social medias) for a game. You'll enjoy it more.