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[Darnath]

If you're avoiding those because you're afraid you can't pull your weight in a party situation, don't be concerned by that. I don't know what the skill level is for soloing that kind of stuff, but at this point in a party the skill threshold for Exdeath probably isn't much more than "can you move out of AOE circles and move to the centre of the arena when a particular skill is cast?"

I don't recall anything challenging in Innocence either, which I think I tried late in Shadowbringers' patch cycle or maybe early Endwalker, though I was lucky and got the gwiber early on that one.

It's exactly that.

Story time
Last (literally) FC I was in wanted to do Tsukuyomi EX near the end of 5.0 unsynched. "Sure, can't be that hard with 8 of us in full Ronkan gear!". I was in full MCH Ronkan gear, the easiest job in the game IMO (No procs, positionals, cast times or RNG {DNC took them} to worry about, just follow rotation with the 50 heat and 100 battery CD and hope ping doesn't mess you up). Maybe it's just my eyes or what have you, but over half the time I would die due to debuff on the player not being the same as the floor half and halfs and die because it started at 4 stacks instead of 1. If I managed to survive that my dumbuttery (gotta keep it clean for the forums!) the meteors phase afterwards was a guaranteed death for me. After 9 tries, I literally said on discord "I gotta go, I can't do this anymore" on the verge of crying because I was failing the so called "easy stuff" so badly I spent the rest of the night with my cats. The FC was very concerned about me and they were not an inch angry at me. I was upset at myself holding my team back.

After that, I swore off doing EX's unless I can solo or maybe duo them. If there was a legitimate thing like DBM I would try it again but those aren't legal in FF XIV.

"How do you deal with real like if this bothers you?" Simple! I'm paid or have to do it to survive stressful stuff. This is a game. A game we have to pay for a monthly fee for. Last thing I want in such a game is more stress to deal with, especially if I'm causing other nuisance in content that "should be easy"

O4S has been soloable on the not-DRK tanks since Endwalker, and someone posted a DRG solo more recently. It should be fairly easy(albeit long) at this point on PLD/GNB/WAR even in AF gear.

Hmm, I'll have to give it a try! Right now I have AST/WHM in full NeoKingdom (AST with some Queztal), DRG/PLD/RDM in full NeoKingdom too.
Thanks!

[Darnath]

Oops, missed your reply making my previous post. I'll grab that.

Still leaves the mount(s) (if I can solo Alte Roit) and the earrings.

Thanks!

[Canadane]

It's exactly that.

Story time
Last (literally) FC I was in wanted to do Tsukuyomi EX near the end of 5.0 unsynched. "Sure, can't be that hard with 8 of us in full Ronkan gear!". I was in full MCH Ronkan gear, the easiest job in the game IMO (No procs, positionals, cast times or RNG {DNC took them} to worry about, just follow rotation with the 50 heat and 100 battery CD and hope ping doesn't mess you up). Maybe it's just my eyes or what have you, but over half the time I would die due to debuff on the player not being the same as the floor half and halfs and die because it started at 4 stacks instead of 1. If I managed to survive that my dumbuttery (gotta keep it clean for the forums!) the meteors phase afterwards was a guaranteed death for me. After 9 tries, I literally said on discord "I gotta go, I can't do this anymore" on the verge of crying because I was failing the so called "easy stuff" so badly I spent the rest of the night with my cats. The FC was very concerned about me and they were not an inch angry at me. I was upset at myself holding my team back.

Dying a lot (and I mean a LOT) is absolutely normal.
This game teaches mechanics by killing you. When you die, you see you've done something wrong. It's not holding people back. It's part of the process everyone goes though.
Not even the top players are going to not die to new stuff. You can infer some things but the game has plenty of newer mechanics ready to kill us all.
We all die, over and over again, until we don't.

I hope this helps you feel better, and may give you the courage to try again. Just remember, dying and wiping the group isn't a bad thing, it's just... a thing. It's the way the game works.
Best of luck fellow warrior of light!

[Mawlzy]

Dying a lot (and I mean a LOT) is absolutely normal.
This game teaches mechanics by killing you. When you die, you see you've done something wrong. It's not holding people back. It's part of the process everyone goes though.
Not even the top players are going to not die to new stuff. You can infer some things but the game has plenty of newer mechanics ready to kill us all.
We all die, over and over again, until we don't.

I hope this helps you feel better, and may give you the courage to try again. Just remember, dying and wiping the group isn't a bad thing, it's just... a thing. It's the way the game works.
Best of luck fellow warrior of light!

All fair points, but...

Something that people with a natural affinity for high-APM combat will never emotionally appreciate is that not everyone is like them. This covers everything from reaction times, to hand-eye coordination, to short-term memory, to spatial awareness to stress management.

And thus we get comments on YouTube guides that amount to: "Why are you making a guide for this? I beat it blind with one eye closed while watching Netflix using my left foot on the mouse."

Not everyone has an aptitude for combat, and combat is not all of FF14.

[Birdbrain]

Looking forward to this one! The flying garter snake dragon is awesome, I probably haven't even unlocked the place it drops from yet. Guess I'm part of that targeted audience.

I will happily be a conduit of rage for any disappointed veterans, 'cause at least I'll have a cool mount!