Dear Square Enix! Make the game harder, not easier!

[Kane]

nerfing old content every time new content comes out is a good way to make players feel their achievements mean nothing, which is bad for an mmo.

Yeah, I can't really fathom this. If level caps are going to be raised, new classes implemented, etc., then content should get easier on its own, allowing people to catch up.

As it is now, a player is kind of an idiot to bother attempting to devise a strategy for a hard fight knowing full-well that in a couple months that very content will struggle to help you complete it. It's more efficient in all ways just to wait and get the rewards handed to you than to fight to earn (soon to be outdated) gear as soon as it becomes available.

[Gokudo83]

No I really don't understand why you have to make previous content easier when new content comes out. I work hard to beat those battles why hand them on a silver platter to people.

[pyonchan]

Titan HM is a great fight, I love the dodging, but for anyone with latency issues it can be impossible to beat. On the issue of difficulty, I feel that it needs to be more even between classes. As it is, the healers difficulty is incredibly high, while for everyone else it's pretty average. Players are not given a comparable challenge, it is focused on the ability of the healers and your amount of latency.

[kalfis049]

I hope by "harder" you mean not more grinding.

[JustinianKaiser]

Too bad he got roflstomped by a RDM in completely crap gear.

Anyways, on topic.

The game, as it is, is already designed to have multiple content levels. If you can't wrap your brain around HOW2MOVEOUTOFREDCIRCLE, you probably don't deserve the relic you're likely working on. Hard Primals are supposed to be hard. The dodging in this game is not difficult. It's not a bug that you can't figure out how to move. Get better, suck less, get gear. Not even being elitist here, or at least not trying to be. This game is a challenge, but not nerf-level YET.

[Steeled]

My biggest problem is that I find the game to be most fun in four man settings.

I haven't done Coil yet, but Titan and Garuda NM, and Ifrit HM demanded more out of the group than the 8 man story stuff.

Even Ifrit NM demanded just as much.

I would love a game that focused on lowman endgame. Lowman does not for a single instant mean easy, your thesaurus just listed it there by mistake.

[Sterob]

instant hard mode buff: Now all dungeon have 12h cooldown before you can rejoin. After you wipe 1 time dungeon will end.

[STARSBarry]

all I care about is for them to fix the issue of having to dodge attacks by 2+ seconds extra due to server latency, make mechanics harder sure but make sure your players hit when they are hit, not when there half away across the room from the AOE but Canada says NOPE! and explodes you anyway.

[Khaap]

[/SarcasmOn]The OP is totally right. 100% of us should pay a subscription to help develop content that only the top 1% of elite players can enjoy. That makes total business sense.[/SarcasmOff]

Hopefully the 1% of elite players left won't mind when the subscription goes up to $1300 dollars a month to keep things ticking over.

I'm all for hard content but not in one encounter that can utterly screw you just because the game can't actually draw stuff on the screen properly in time with when the server thinks those items are on screen, then penalizes you for not getting out of the way of said item because its drawn it 2 seconds later. I would love to play that encounter on a level field where if I get out of the plume I don't take damage. I reacted in time. I still dont think I would get through it but at the moment the difficulty is the encounter + some really random elements introduced by lag.

[Govalon]

I really don't like where they are going with this... I am not experienced MMO player so I had no idea they do this in most of MMO's. Really? They nerf original content so everyone can do it? I don't see them doing this in singleplayer games. Emerald Weapon never got a nerf in FF7. Penance never got nerf in FFX etc. I just don't understand why we need nerfs. Atleast they should give unique title for those who actually beat the real fight instead of the new baby version that is coming.

I can understand that once new gear start coming in, old content becomes easier because of the new gear you have but making the boss hit less, become slower and having less HP on top of your new gear is just so lame. I though I was casual since I work 8 hours each day but I guess I am not.