Difficulty of normal content.

[Dingelingeling]

You are allowed to be caught by mechanics you haven't seen before.
You are allowed to die to mechanics you're not used to yet.
You are allowed to wipe.
You are allowed to not be perfect.
You are allowed to actually have to learn something instead of beating something without even trying on the first try and then going back to whatever you do when you're not doing daily roulettes or just standing in Limsa or whatever it is you do.

[VictorSpoils]

Let's not disregard the lingering issue of nearly every dungeon/trial/raid/alliance raid prior to Shadowbringers being an undertuned and/or oversynced snoozefest. Guildhests too, which are somehow still in the game and were never expanded on and have a roulette that gives 10k EXP, fell victim to this and are utterly ignored mechanically. Most of the 8-man content could be cleared comfortably with one tank and healer.

[Bready]

Skill issue

[NelaryNeaky]

It's so absurd I'm just laughing hysterically. You passed ARR, HW, SB, SDB, EW, eventually you passed DT. I don't believe that a person in so much time after so many levels hasn't learn such a trivial thing as ‘Get out of aoe’. And okay if it's your first dungeon or raid and you die because you didn't know some attack - that's fine, it's a learning process. But if you die from the same attacks 4-5 times in a row - it's not the combat problem, it's your problem that you just don't want to put in more effort

P.S. Usually in all games it should always be the case that the further you play - the harder it gets. DT after EW (especially after EW) handled it very well

[Hueste]

Hmm, Jenova, checks out.

Memes aside, I hate to tell you but expansion after expansion this game has been getting easier and easier. I'm saying this as I have played since basically the beginning of the game. We used to have enrages in normal raids and trials. If you think this is difficult, I do not know what to say to you, and this is coming from someone who learns very slowly.

In all honesty by your 9th death and I'm assuming you would've seen all the mechanics (because they loop endlessly in normal raids since there is no enrage in them), you.. should've noticed how to avoid mechanics by looking at everyone or looking at the boss/ arena during mechanics being cast as to where to go.

Do you do EX trials or do you avoid those? For I do not understand why you find these difficult, considering it's just mechanics from ARR to current.

Sadly, my rear is the kind that wants the enrage back in normal raids and trials, so that people actively engage in the fights and learn mechanics, regardless of wiping. Eventually, you'll get through them or maybe just play with friends if you do not play with them yet, or make some.

[caffe_macchiato]

I think this is a very good issue to bring up, because it brings us to the logical conclusion of requiring FFXIV be played from 1 to 100 sequentially. The only people who can play Dawntrail endgame are those who have beaten the entire 400-hour MSQ and "got gud", or those who "cheated" by buying a boost. It's a great thing for us to showcase, because we're finally becoming like World of Warcraft, a game that you all claim to hate. Meanwhile, World of Warcraft is actually more friendly to newer players because you can start at the second-newest expansion and reach endgame content within only around 20 hours of playtime. A lot of you HATED the "elitist" nature of your former game, and you came to Final Fantasy XIV because it was "the friendly MMO". But now you all are more hostile to new players than the game you want to replace. Your attitude resulted in the world's former top MMO losing its spot to FFXIV. And what happens when your attitude takes over this game too?

[Supersnow845]

I think this is a very good issue to bring up, because it brings us to the logical conclusion of requiring FFXIV be played from 1 to 100 sequentially. The only people who can play Dawntrail endgame are those who have beaten the entire 400-hour MSQ and "got gud", or those who "cheated" by buying a boost. It's a great thing for us to showcase, because we're finally becoming like World of Warcraft, a game that you all claim to hate. Meanwhile, World of Warcraft is actually more friendly to newer players because you can start at the second-newest expansion and reach endgame content within only around 20 hours of playtime. A lot of you HATED the "elitist" nature of your former game, and you came to Final Fantasy XIV because it was "the friendly MMO". But now you all are more hostile to new players than the game you want to replace. Your attitude resulted in the world's former top MMO losing its spot to FFXIV. And what happens when your attitude takes over this game too?

As much as you wish to believe it hostility in this game is not entirely from WOW refugees nor is expecting a level of competence to complete a normal raid at level 100 toxic elitism

[PangTong]

PLEASE keep the increased difficulty. It's so, so nice to have content that doesn't make me fall asleep and actually makes me want to play the game. Endwalker content was so boring, the game needs this so badly.

[SeriousPan]

Snip.

You should main Pictomancer with how you handle that broad brush!

[sdr26]

I am physically disabled and can only play with one finger. I have died a lot in the new raid but I had fun and I learned. This is making me become a better player. I am fine with the difficulty and this is how you master these fights by doing better each week. Now I might not do the raids on a healer because I might become more of a hindrance.