The direction this game is taking.

[Arturia]

Don't be setting false expectations. There is nothing hard about any of the dungeons / bosses you mentioned. The first even remote PvE challenge you're going to have in this game is AK if you do it as a fresh 50 in AF gear. Even then, wasn't that hard for my static. Died a few times on demonwall until people stopped getting knocked off then ez.

Ifrits yawn, garuda a bit better... Finally gets hard at Titan.

Though none of that is what bothers me about this game. What really irks me is the fact there is zero outdoor content for a 50, I have to wait 30+ mins in DF WITH A FULL PARTY.... And outside of leveling alts there really isn't a whole lot to do yet as a 50. Mind you its a fresh MMO and this is expected... I just hope they arn't going entirely themepark style with EVERYTHING from here on being instanced queue crap. Bring the immersive back please, if I wanted to play WoW, I'd reinstall it.

[Bibimbap]

It's hard to give a balanced expectation, because for a lot of people those things are going to seem hard, but I see your point perfectly. It really is all just a cakewalk for a coordinated group of people.

[cfStatic]

It's hard to give a balanced expectation, because for a lot of people those things are going to seem hard, but I see your point perfectly. It really is all just a cakewalk for a coordinated group of people.

It's a cakewalk for anyone that has raided* before, not just coordinated static groups. I've only done up until AK/Ifrit, but I've seen the Garuda fight, the mechanics aren't difficult, it's just getting people to execute. Titan / CoB might be different, I don't know, but I'm hoping that there will be some challenge waiting once I get there.

*I don't mean LFR on WoW either.

[rabbitzero]

*I don't mean LFR on WoW either.

It's funny, i always hear about people complaining about how people have a hard time beating lfr, and then say it's easier. Wouldn't it be harder if you don't beat it as often? Working with a guild you run with all the time is much easier, as you know what every one has for gear or will do, but the same people complain about pugs and the lack of challenge, and then drop at the first death.

People talk about challenge, but where do you set the limit and what do they mean by it? Is it twitch skills, platforming, gear checks, dps checks? AI isn't good enough for it to really be adaptive, and you wouldn't want that anyway. The boss would ignore tanks, hill the healers then the dps and then the tanks, and you would never win. It's what we do, why don't they? If you set the difficulty for the top raiders, most won't ever even see what they spent all that money to make (Yoshi said less than 100 would see or beat, i forget, all of coil before the patch hits, that's not even 1% of players). Blizzard learned this at the end of BC, spent too much time and money on raids so few saw, so they had the option of putting that money elsewhere or making so more people could do it.

It's a no win scenario for them, what is easy for some is harder for others.