Quote Originally Posted by FuturePastNow View Post
The first boss of Dun Scaith also has a soft enrage- it will eventually turn the entire platform into void death squares.
Dunscaith 1st boss, Alpha 3.0 normal.
Best 'casual' content in the game. That is what they need to look to.

- Everyone starts out hating and (kind of) dreading Dunscaith for the first boss above all.
- But you can't avoid repeating it. And now your learning it, you are getting better. Everyone is getting better.
- The mechanics are quite clear, so you feel like your learning even while your dying. You don't entirely loose hope.
- If you are struggling its not so hard that you even have to watch a video, the old style written guides give you a enough of a clue.
- But while you not good at it you really know, you are dead! You are KO.
- When you start to get good at it you really know, again you are not dead!
- If your a healer that is bad at it still, people suddenly start dying. But a little chat highlighting the 'doom esuna'... and now your top of it... and you feel your making a difference! In fact you can kind of start to feel like your carrying people (almost).
- All the jobs are having to do the same mechanics or die, so the tank too feels like if they are not having to be ressed, they get to feel like they are making a difference, becuase - -- they are one less think for a healer, who is always busy in that fight, to have to deal with. Or the other tanks who'd have to take over.
- And then one day you find your the one than knows the mechanics, and the sprouts around you don't, and you can 'see' the difference. Learning the fight matters.

- And whats more, even better, you get a smile when you see it, because this just might be one of those runs where we will get a wipe, and you get to be reminded that as experienced as you are, it at least that still matters that you are experienced. Granted thats a hard thing to design in a balanced way, so we are not going to get every instance to wipe 1/10 for all eternity.

And the same for Alpha 3.0.
Its very fast (comparatively to other casual), a total cluster.
The star/lard mech can be fairly hard for some learn, and I suspect at least a 'little' challenging first time for all.
Its fast paced, new mech type, new mech type, new mech type. puzzle react, position, add attack, dps check, tether.
If you don't know it you KO, or get hit pretty badly. But once you learn that mechanic you go from inevitable near death to so much smoother sailing. 'You really get feedback that you are improving', and fast.
If both tanks don't know it its obvious, and a wipe is goign to be hard to avoid.
IF both healers don't know its same.
One tank and one healer though can carry.
The DPS know they matter because of DPS check. The DPS get to feel good to because KO.
Its on the edge becuase I've seen it abandon a couple of times, however, when it was new, its doubtful, you'd have to wait long for one of those carries from a roul fill

The midcore content we want can be made. It is possible.
Something that matters, where you know (even if it is easy) that knowing is making a difference.

That's not the case with over 90% of casual content sadly. Yes you can die but its pretty hard. M3 is the nearest I've seen, in DT, but the only person who needs to learn the mechanics are the healers. Once they know it, there is no amount of tank or DPS fck up that's probably even going to result in a KO.

There is content that is the casual 'challenge' midcore that people are talking about I believe. And the game reall has next to none.
The problem is people are going to hate it if it ever finally arrives, because they DO massively underestimate themselves, because little in the game has shown them that while they cant clear something first pull, 20 minutes later on pull number five they sure as heck can pull together and get through, and when they think back to the firs pull, maybe they were thinking "how the heck?" And now they feel good.

But instead is OP MSQ for years... oh here now try Extremes! (god it must be soul crushing to be a healer going from OP casual to your first Extreme.)