My own personal feedback on Dawntrail (up till 7.45)

[Uzephi]

I know what you're saying but "Doable" and "Accessible" are two different things, and I think the opening of PT suffers from being inaccessible if you don't have access to a group. {Snip}. For the first boss of PT you're back to square one after every attempt (and another 40 mins of getting back to the boss to have another go).

Welcome to soloing content the developers designed for 4 people. It isn't supposed to be a cakewalk and the wall at 10 is a nice, friendly reminder you're soloing group content. I'd rather have a brick wall at the beginning so players only waste 40mins than them designing the wall at a higher floor exponentially increasing that wasted time.

Edit: you do know soloing isn't really tested by them. Heck, solo for POTD wasn't achieved until the expac after it released with RDM's subsequent release, and until significant changes to the battle system, the completion rate was extremely low (less than 100 per job all of Stb, for example this was easily viewable with the rankings DDs have. You could see some peoples progress in the ranks. There were even a few jobs that couldn't solo and you could see the wall floor they had because many players had their highest floor there). Comparing to another game that designs for solo play in the content is different than " here's a solo challenge we really didn't test, have at it."