"You Will Die" Difficulty... Can I Have It?

[Valmonte]

That makes you sound like the kind of player I won't want to group with anyways, so not really a loss where I'm concerned.

I'm sure it won't be a problem, though. Your attitude tells me that you probably wouldn't join a random party that's shouting in Ul'Dah, anyways. Nor would I expect you'd use cross-realm parties if they were ever implemented. You'll find an LS to run top-end content on an organized schedule, and won't voluntarily play with anyone outside of that. In short, "easy mode" wouldn't really effect you.

Actually, I'm not even sure why you're complaining.

surprise, ive done plenty of pick up groups, helped people clear there Jobs quests, and assisted many in stomping out van darnus, i do that because its always a decent challenge. that avenue of challenge is now being threatened. people will just go easy mode and learn absolutely nothing about the tactics required to beat that fight when presented with a more difficult setting. the whole let the player choose the difficulty is garbage and ruins the whole RPG feel.

Van Darnus was supposed to rip off your head and shit down your throat he had the power of bahamut at his disposal, you'd ruin his intire plot becuase one persons to dame dumb to listen and adapt based on situations.

[IndigoDarkwolf]

Van Darnus was supposed to rip off your head and shit down your throat he had the power of bahamut at his disposal, you'd ruin his intire plot becuase one persons to dame dumb to listen and adapt based on situations.

Maybe my assumption is wrong: that if 2.0 were to have a fight like Van Darnus, the fight's easy mode would already be on par with Van Darnus Easy from 1.0, which you say you helped people with because it was a decent challenge. So the slider would let you make the fight harder than that, with appropriately scaled rewards.

Did I miss the part where S|E said they were planning to scale down the base difficulty level? The rumor-mongering I've heard suggests exactly the opposite.