@Casuals , do you think the message has gotten through?

[Zackmag1993]

Please make The Firmament, Cosmic Exploration, also available for battle jobs, with different rewards as well. This opens the possibility for cooperative missions with crafters and gatherers, like protective details to help them progress around the planets; that could be cool as well.

Garlemald needs to be a restoration content that allows both battle jobs and crafting and gathering as content. to finally sign a peace treaty and put and end to the war between races and people.

This Expansion could have promise all this content at my point of view.

[enthauptet]

Please make The Firmament, Cosmic Exploration, also available for battle jobs, with different rewards as well. This opens the possibility for cooperative missions with crafters and gatherers, like protective details to help them progress around the planets; that could be cool as well.

Garlemald needs to be a restoration content that allows both battle jobs and crafting and gathering as content. to finally sign a peace treaty and put and end to the war between races and people.

This Expansion could have promise all this content at my point of view.

Choosing the moon, etc. over Garlemald for the restoration content was definitely a choice that I'll never understand. Should we help rebuild people's homes, etc. or some bored loporits which do they even have souls? lol

[Zackmag1993]

Balancing for range DPS, and healers DPS needs to improve to be at least equal to casters. The fact they don't do it due to their functionality is laughable.
DOTS and Buffs should all do the same 5%, so when they join together, it's up to 10% increase on stats, and should all combine together when raiding or doing PVE content for it represent at least 10 to 15% of all parties damage in the game, balancing DPS Damage to be similar between classes for a better way to equalize job performance.

This one is just my opinion; you can criticize, add, or disagree with me. Sorry for the long opinion here, but this is, in my opinion, just ways they can fix the game. This is just one player's opinion, not an expert's, and does not need to be taken into consideration. If what I have said touches you and you like it, you can add and share it. If not, it is okay; you can provide your opinion. I am just interested in the well-being of this game. You can also correct me if I am wrong; it is okay. I hope these opinions I gave are of help in supporting the community feeling regarding FFXIV's condition, and devs can see this and listen to all of us and not just a few.

[Valkyrie-Veil]

Choosing the moon, etc. over Garlemald for the restoration content was definitely a choice that I'll never understand. Should we help rebuild people's homes, etc. or some bored loporits which do they even have souls? lol

The Garleans very obviously do not want our help.

[TaleraRistain]

Shame on my fellow Savage raiders in this thread making people challenged by MSQ dungeons, normal raids, or alliance raids feel bad. There are plenty of people who struggle with mechanics in these places. I know. I play a healer. I see them get clipped or run right into an AoE or what have you all the time. I don't come here whining that they get clipped. I heal them because that's my job. I pick them up off the floor because that's my job. In 11 years of healing, I can name on a single hand the number of times where it was obvious someone just wanted to be carried. All the other times I could see people truly trying.

I was so angry when I had a new person in M5N who was dying a lot because they were NEW and they apologized for being a burden and said we could kick them because they kept messing up. We all assured them that it was not a problem and we wanted them there. But shame on many of you in this thread. You're where that mentality is coming from. You're the ones making them feel like a burden and like they aren't wanted. I don't want them in my Savage parties but they're not in my Savage parties. They're in the content that is made for them to enjoy. I want them to feel welcome even if they are less than perfect. Because they're doing content where it doesn't matter if they are. We can cover and muddle our way through.

My fellow Savage raiders need to learn to stay in our lane. That content is not meant to challenge us. It challenges the players that it's meant to challenge. We are doing the content that's meant to challenge us. We shouldn't be making people feel bad or like they're a burden when they're doing the content meant to challenge them.

[Uzephi]

I have a bunch of friends that meet up for like an hour or two once a week to clear even criterion savage so the argument about time holds no water. If you want to clear stuff quickly you need more time but that doesn't mean it can't be done without a large time investment every day/week. Either way you have to spend time to clear content whether it's what I mentioned, the moon base thing, etc. Either you invest the time to get the rewards or you don't that's the difference. I REALLY dislike PVP in this game so I never touch it but that's my decision so I just don't get those rewards and I don't complain about it being here or not getting them.

You do realize you just compared what you call 'casual' against something SE named 'Savage.' The fact you cannot pick it up and complete it on *your* time and have to accommodate 3 others (edit: and 'marry' them through the whole process, no way to easily solo it, as said, more people have epic hero than Necromancer/Lone Hero/Queen titles) to complete it with *any* semblance of ease makes it not casual friendly, please don't compare what you want to call casual with content named "Savage."

[AvoSturmfaust]

You do realize you just compared what you call 'casual' against something SE named 'Savage.' The fact you cannot pick it up and complete it on *your* time and have to accommodate 3 others (edit: and 'marry' them through the whole process, no way to easily solo it, as said, more people have epic hero than Necromancer/Lone Hero/Queen titles) to complete it with *any* semblance of ease makes it not casual friendly, please don't compare what you want to call casual with content named "Savage."

Sorry but if you want to do everything "SOLO" you may be in the wrong game, its a MMORPG if you dont like social interactions or to play with others its clearly not for you

[Mawlzy]

Sorry but if you want to do everything "SOLO" you may be in the wrong game, its a MMORPG if you dont like social interactions or to play with others its clearly not for you

Why people play MMORPGs solo, and why it's a good idea.

https://youtu.be/AcGezDYNLIU?si=7Xjf09jxhWxHQybu

[Gwenkatsu]

My fellow Savage raiders need to learn to stay in our lane. That content is not meant to challenge us. It challenges the players that it's meant to challenge. We are doing the content that's meant to challenge us. We shouldn't be making people feel bad or like they're a burden when they're doing the content meant to challenge them.

Someone please give this person a prize.

I don't care about extreme, savage, ultimate, chaotic, nonsensical, pointless, or w/e the harder content is named. Fill them with body checks every 10 seconds, have the AEs leave only 8 pixels of safe space in a 300 square feet arena, give the boss a bazillion HP - I don't care. When someone enjoys that sort of content: great, more power to you.
But FFS leave the MSQ content alone. This is the story mode of a story driven MMO. There's no need to make it unplayable for people that are here for the story, not to be challenged by stuff beyond their capabilities. If there was a switch in the settings to remove all trials from the MSQ, I would happily press it and never again deal with this stuff.

[Carin-Eri]

Shame on my fellow Savage raiders in this thread making people challenged by MSQ dungeons, normal raids, or alliance raids feel bad. There are plenty of people who struggle with mechanics in these places. I know. I play a healer. I see them get clipped or run right into an AoE or what have you all the time. I don't come here whining that they get clipped. I heal them because that's my job. I pick them up off the floor because that's my job. In 11 years of healing, I can name on a single hand the number of times where it was obvious someone just wanted to be carried. All the other times I could see people truly trying.

I was so angry when I had a new person in M5N who was dying a lot because they were NEW and they apologized for being a burden and said we could kick them because they kept messing up. We all assured them that it was not a problem and we wanted them there. But shame on many of you in this thread. You're where that mentality is coming from. You're the ones making them feel like a burden and like they aren't wanted. I don't want them in my Savage parties but they're not in my Savage parties. They're in the content that is made for them to enjoy. I want them to feel welcome even if they are less than perfect. Because they're doing content where it doesn't matter if they are. We can cover and muddle our way through.

My fellow Savage raiders need to learn to stay in our lane. That content is not meant to challenge us. It challenges the players that it's meant to challenge. We are doing the content that's meant to challenge us. We shouldn't be making people feel bad or like they're a burden when they're doing the content meant to challenge them.

Its sad really, because at this point - and going by my own experience - there are players who probably would follow that poor player's suggestion and try to kick them. Trust me, it does NOT feel nice to be vote-kicked from an instance because "your DPS was too low".

I've encountered players like that too - in fact, had a WHM in roulette run of 'Final Steps of Faith' a few days ago who kept apologising for dying (and needless to say we assured them that they were absolutely fine and didn't need to apologise) - and I think I feel a more profound sympathy for them because I was in their shoes once - and to some degree still am considering how difficult I find the newest content.

The worst element of it is that the type of player who would make a newbie/struggling player feel like they're a burden are the sort of person who is most probably only there to obtain their daily tome drop and lack the self-awareness or empathy to see past their own wants.

Someone please give this person a prize.

I don't care about extreme, savage, ultimate, chaotic, nonsensical, pointless, or w/e the harder content is named. Fill them with body checks every 10 seconds, have the AEs leave only 8 pixels of safe space in a 300 square feet arena, give the boss a bazillion HP - I don't care. When someone enjoys that sort of content: great, more power to you.
But FFS leave the MSQ content alone. This is the story mode of a story driven MMO. There's no need to make it unplayable for people that are here for the story, not to be challenged by stuff beyond their capabilities. If there was a switch in the settings to remove all trials from the MSQ, I would happily press it and never again deal with this stuff.

This!