Can Square Enix stop gate-keeping mid-core contents behind Savage ILvl on release?

[Kohashi]

Thank you for proving my point.

there was one? o.O. Next time I go prog ultimates in crafted gear, not even upgraded. My vilan arc is starting now.

[BigCheez]

there was one? o.O. Next time I go prog ultimates in crafted gear, not even upgraded. My vilan arc is starting now.

The overwhelming majority of the playerbase doesn't enter ultimate until BiS is no longer required nor current savage gear. FRU being the exception because it was undertuned as hell.

"A sense of pride and accomplishment" is literally a meme used to describe something that isn't worth the effort.

Gear should not allow you to skip mechanics on release. Content is DOA at that point.

The idea that people should farm BiS for glam is legitimately unhinged.

[Nero-Voidstails]

a other thing that could be done is having a item that could upgrade old gears into current bis gear but with the same stats but stronger. to match the current expension. could work for relics to and crafted could be a thing I don't know but sometime just doing a reset on every twoajor patch kinda suck

[shigaisen]

It is anecdotal, but I have personally seen unreal parties ilvl locking above the max synced ilvl. It's purely a community issue, nothing SE can do to stop people from asking for full Savage and augmented equipment regardless of sync.

[shigaisen]

Extreme's is not midcore. It still requires a guide for you & the party to complete, unless you think trail-&-errors is good game design. Note that NES games has this artificial difficulty to extend the life of a short game. Last time I checked, this is a video game, not a study exam. And then you get upset & cry when you get a party member who's new to the fight & you just argue with them that they should just make a pf that says "practice" in which will take forever to fill up weeks later after the content is released.

Extremes only really need a guide because people want to minimize strat variations, especially on PF. Majority of mechanics are straightforward with the problem they present in Extremes. Besides, guides are community driven. Other people took the time to thoroughly learn the fight and make braindead strats so you don't have to.

[NOODS]

Different game but I found PSO2's emergency quests to be what I'd imagine midcore content to be like. Anyone can hop in without exactly needing a guide just to play or not get destroyed by a PF group so long as your "ilvl" was sufficient, secondly it doesn't actually NEED a PF group to start since it was a global event that everyone could join, the quests varied from base defense, multi-stage boss battles across different stages, and the equivalent to CLL/Dalraida, It had a large instance player count, a single death doesn't wipe the entire instance, it provided a challenge that required you to not snooze while tapping 1-2-3, and the rewards were plentiful and stayed relevant forever since you could trade them in for tokens to purchase current content items or misc items that opened up other player features.

[Kohashi]

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The idea that people should farm BiS for glam is legitimately unhinged.

You must not have heard that glam is the real ultimate end-game.

"A sense of pride and accomplishment" is literally a meme used to describe something that isn't worth the effort.

Then NOTHING that you do in life is worth the effort. You will die anyway, why even bother?

Gear should not allow you to skip mechanics on release. Content is DOA at that point.

You cannot skip mechanics on release, because on release aka week 1, you are in min ilvl.

FRU being the exception because it was undertuned as hell.

what part of it was undertuned? Do you really think that you can go in FRU with anything but BiS and clear it? Hahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Have you cleared FRU with anything but BiS? have even tried to? Don't talk out of your ass please. FRU is forgiving in the sense that if you make a mistake it will slap you with a -90% damage down, but the mechanics there do a LOT of damage + you do need to also do good damage or you enrage.

[Nero-Voidstails]

If midcore content is content that you can enter casually with no requirements or restrictions then what is casual content?

Bozja/Eureka is casual content. Extreme/savage is midcore content. There isn't much hardcore content in the game outside of week 1 savage and on-patch ultimate.

eureka and Bozja are not casual not gonna lie with you well now they are due to how the echo destroyed the balance in itself but without balance casual player struggled heavily in those. but me don't think savage is midcore no matter what and v&c are strange because they are casual but the criterion is not x)

[YukioKobayashi]

eureka and Bozja are not casual not gonna lie with you well now they are due to how the echo destroyed the balance in itself but without balance casual player struggled heavily in those. but me don't think savage is midcore no matter what and v&c are strange because they are casual but the criterion is not x)

So only if something is braindead easy it can be considered casual?
I really doubt that the WHM spamming Cure1 in all Bozjian Critical Engagements is doing midcore content.
DRS and duells on the other hand can maybe considered midcore. Which is also something completely optional.

[Volgia]

"Midcore" is kind of a buzzword at this point to mean whatever you want, Savages used to be really hardcore but ever since Endwalker I can only point to certain fights as hardcore. The first tier in Arcadeon was really midcore by my standards, compared to E4S, P3S and P4S.