Difficulty of normal content.

[Deslyxic]

Do you by chance deal with Left-Right confusion? Apparently some small portion of the population does struggle with immediate identification of left vs right and it causes difficulty with things like maps, directions, etc.

I thought disassociation of the word from the direction was pretty common among the population.

[BradyWard]

TBH I don't even remember why I dislike P2 so much, I know I swore every time I got in roulettes. It might been the disjointed head AOE, you need to "the body is looking in this direction so the aoe is like this... and the head is looking there so the aoe is like this.. so the safe zone is... fug it! follow the pack!"
Too bad the pack sometimes was as confused as myself and we all eat sheet.

And yeah too much HP is not difficulty, is just a longer fight. When you all talk about snoozefest, for me snoozefest is a giant health pool, when the fight is like the Duracell bunny and keeps going, and going, and going...

but you ligit just explained the mechanic , so you know how to deal with it. it was teligraphed and you learnt it, thats not hard,trail and error is how you learn literally anything in life

The Yazmat fight wasnt just a HP fest because its artifically lots of HP becasue the phase shattering the heart rips the HP diffrence away bringing him in line with what a normal fight would be

[FlorineC]

Also sorry to keep rapid posting, but for as much as you want to blame xeno and arthars and whoever, neither of them (didn't watch happy's video so I can't speak for him) were rude or toxic or dogpiling on you, they just didn't agree with you and made a video about it. They read your points, saw where you were coming from, and disagreed, that's it.

[Router]

Everyone forgets one key thing about early xpac end game normal content, it is always harder at first due to low ilvls, always. When an xpac begins you have the majority of the community utilizing gear closer to the min ilvl for a dungeon more so than any other point in the xpac's life cycle. This dramatic shift is so noticeable because when Endwalker finished most people had max ilvl attainable for those dungeons / raids and now that isn't true at all.

Why does this matter so much?

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This reminds me of an annoying "feature" of how fights are currently paced.
Bad groups with bad DPS are punished with harder mechanics because the fight drags on, while good groups with good DPS are punished by not seeing some of the harder mechanics... Where does this make any sense? It should be the other way around. I doubt the bad players want to see the harder mechanics, and the good players probably want to skip all the tutorialization. I have no doubt that part of the complaints about difficulty arise from the fact that bad players have to "survive" for an extra couple of minutes in every fight.

EDIT: I should note this mostly applies to trials and raids, since dungeon bosses start looping mechanics very early on. Still, I think it's a frustrating consequence of current design.

[Enjuden]

I think in average the last 3 expansions were pretty fair in terms of difficulty outside of some outliers like the Mist Dragon, Amauroth, Tower of Zot or Final Day that were on the harder side for dungeons. Orbornne Monastery was obviously overtuned to the point the had to nerf it and the butter dragon in Lighthouse had a lot of HP too ("Your suffering is not yet over!", "no sheet, MF! we being fighting for 3 hour and you are still at 40%").
E5N was the sprout killer, in fact the missery I felt from Valigarmarda reminded me of that fight. P2N I remember with certain disdain too. Obviously O11 with the lardboard/starboard bullshit. As for trials Golbez I found particularly difficult.
But the thing is those are outliers in terms of difficulty, dungeons and trials you do them once and when you have bad luck in roulettes. DT is consistently harder all across the board, there is no escape.

The butter dragon is just looking at the screen. And knowing how magnets work. You even get a warning of sorts on the first time. Valigarmanda should not be difficult for anyone, especially in normal mode, so I'll lead with this instead of flame which was my initial idea.

You've gotten away with coasting by since content has been braindead, but the bigger problem is that Red Mage is probably too difficult for you to even perform on and you either haven't realized it yet, or stubbornly want to make it work without putting in the work. Every time people ask about how things are too hard, I see them playing red mage, machinist (yes it's considered hard even if it boils down to 'press all the things'), monk, ninja and they all play jobs that are way too busy for them. You've had 50 levels to figure out that red mage is probably not the greatest idea to play yet you still do.

Switch to Summoner. Your life will be a lot easier and you might learn something. Just play something slower and less intensive when it comes to resource management.

[Deslyxic]

Also sorry to keep rapid posting, but for as much as you want to blame xeno and arthars and whoever, neither of them (didn't watch happy's video so I can't speak for him) were rude or toxic or dogpiling on you, they just didn't agree with you and made a video about it. They read your points, saw where you were coming from, and disagreed, that's it.

Actually kudos to MrHappy because he doesn't show the names in the posts neither link the forum. Arthars on the other hand went to look for logs from my character which surprise, I don't have (actually I am surprised there were a couple of logs, someone else must have uploaded them), but I am complaining about the difficulty of normal raids, why did he thought he was gonna find any log? He's either a) an idiot or b) knowing perfectly well he wasn't going to find any and did it to drag me though the mud, because of course your opinion only matter if you rainbow parse, or whatever.
And they weren't rude? Arthars call me "entitled casual" in the thumbnail, Xeno calls me "filthy casual" and mocks my post. They were agitating people against me, even if accidentally.

[ZarlinaCott]

If you cannot find satisfaction in the core mechanics of combat in this game, maybe the combat content isn't for you. If you refuse to learn, there is nothing this community can do for you. You have had 100 levels to figure it out, and since you haven't, maybe it's time for you to find another game to play and leave this one to those of us that actually enjoy it.

I don't know how you come to the conclusion that I "haven't figured it out" from that I said, you must just be looking to be toxic on the forums. I have learned everything, am looking of nothing from the community and I am able to pay this game at what most would consider a high level. Being said, that doesn't mean I have to enjoy the way enemy encounters are designed and how core mechanics works, especially when I see room where massive improvements be made. If you enjoy the way everything is currently and wouldn't change one thing, then I'm happy for you. Personally, I'm happy when people share opinions that counter my own, it allows a community to understand a larger picture and most of the time drive successful and fruitful changes. Maybe you just like picking on people who share a different opinion than your own, might want to look into that pal. Cheers!

[BradyWard]

Actually kudos to MrHappy because he doesn't show the names in the posts neither link the forum. Arthars on the other hand went to look for logs from my character which surprise, I don't have (actually I am surprised there were a couple of logs, someone else must have uploaded them), but I am complaining about the difficulty of normal raids, why did he thought he was gonna find any log? He's either a) an idiot or b) knowing perfectly well he wasn't going to find any and did it to drag me though the mud, because of course your opinion only matter if you rainbow parse, or whatever.
And they weren't rude? Arthars call me "entitled casual" in the thumbnail, Xeno calls me "filthy casual" and mocks my post. They were agitating people against me, even if accidentally.

if you didnt want people to reply to a public forum post , why did you open one up?

[BradyWard]

The butter dragon is just looking at the screen. And knowing how magnets work. You even get a warning of sorts on the first time. Valigarmanda should not be difficult for anyone, especially in normal mode, so I'll lead with this instead of flame which was my initial idea.

You've gotten away with coasting by since content has been braindead, but the bigger problem is that Red Mage is probably too difficult for you to even perform on and you either haven't realized it yet, or stubbornly want to make it work without putting in the work. Every time people ask about how things are too hard, I see them playing red mage, machinist (yes it's considered hard even if it boils down to 'press all the things'), monk, ninja and they all play jobs that are way too busy for them. You've had 50 levels to figure out that red mage is probably not the greatest idea to play yet you still do.

Switch to Summoner. Your life will be a lot easier and you might learn something. Just play something slower and less intensive when it comes to resource management.

sounds like some of this, I Main WHM becasue I originally struggled with button management (back in ARR) but over time i have gained an understanding of my tools and now the game is less keep people alive and more of how close to 1 hp can i get away with them and keep attacking, when i play other classes that have more buttons that i havent memorised i sometimes eat it (SCH, GNB, BLM) but not to the degree OP is having

[Maalik]

Why would you even think about doing savage content? Clearly if you didn't enjoy the difficulty of normal content then you're not going to enjoy the difficulty of savage. That's the whole point of doing savage. Don't spend months of your life learning fights and dying over and over if you're already having a rough time with normal content. Not all content is made for everyone and that's ok.

I dont know why you feel the need to try to dunk, but I clearly said in the post I wanted to try savage for the first time before the expansion dropped, and seeing these new raids I have changed my mind about it. So I dont see the point of your comment at all. Also, I never said anywhere that I didnt enjoy it, nor did I say it was too hard. So please sit down.

Also I was doing the raids through partyfinder, so I cant control the groups I got, but yes people were fighting in the 4th raid.

I didnt say anything but my opinion on annoying instances and I also said I am a relatively new player, so the need to be a dick as if I took a side on some debate is wild. Like I literally said it probably just takes practice and time for people to get it better at them.