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

[MapleDeepDish]

I don't mind the plan to eventually tone down content per se. I would just respectfully ask the devs to consider how quickly you do it. Especially now, in the game's infancy. I was a pretty constant endgamer in XI for years. I plan on being an endgame leader in XIV as well, doing it every day. But right now, at the start of the game, I'm trying to enjoy everything the game has to offer. I craft, I gather I'm trying other classes besides my 1 lvl 50. I would like a little more time than 3 months to get to and enjoy the difficult endgame content the way it was meant to be played before it is trivialized. I think content should be kept at its original difficulty for at least 2 patches, or 6 months, before being toned down. That should give everyone who wants to experience it in this manner plenty of time to do so. Please don't force me to ignore the rest of your game so I can get to all endgame content before it gets the nerf hammer, SE!

[Alyndri]

Guessing the OP has a great internet connection and no lag. Awesome.

[Draymos]

Come on already, this thread makes no sense. The game has good pacing of hardness already. Stop trying to make FFXIV into FFXI, play ffxi if you want that old school MMOs that punish you and little rewards. You knew what you were getting into when this relaunch happen, its not like Square didn't point out that game would be for us casuals as well. FFXIV Arr is different animal from 1.0 version and FFXI.

Keep pvp abilities separate from regular abilities is what I recommend to Square. We don't want Elitists like OP and pvpers to take control of regular players gameplay. Don't touch our abilities if pvp is broken or mess up when it comes. Put into play different abilities for pvp its that simple.

And no need to make game any harder, just make newer dungeons or when higher lvls come into play than you may increase al little bit at a time. You can't throw away you initial fan-base who bought his game FFXIV ARR at its current form for a reason. Sorry Doowie, Square has FFXI still available, I played it 4 years. Its the game for elite players like you who like very few on top and put others down.

[ashikenshin]

Pvp abilities ARE separate from regular abilities, they said so recently. Patch 2.1 will include new dungeon, new raid, 2 leveling dungeons now with a 50 version, extreme modes for primals and will include NO NERF YET.

also pvp, so if you don't want scripted battles and cool as hell gear then pvp is for you.

[roohan]

I think difficult content and casuals can coexist. Most MMOs do the mistake and just focus on one direction, or at least it's not balanced between both types of players. I really like the idea of different tears of items. Everyone is abled to get a shiny piece of armor and the only difference is if you have the +1, +2 or the +3 one. Casuals can have something shiny and people demanding harder content can upgrade the armor. It's just bad when casuals get nothing shiny and have no feeling of improvement. But there should be definatly something for those all day long grinders. SE should just not make the mistake and focus on theese players and leave casuals behind.

[ryuhikari550]

I'm sorry but if you think Ifrit Hard needs to be nerfed you should probably quit the game right now.

[Claire_Pendragon]

I personally hate this, because I'd love to try the content while its difficult, but im EXTREMELY slow to level up and gather gear.

Every time I finally get into range, they drop the difficulty, or already did.

I would have a preference if some option to keep "hard mode" still hard, yet offer the easier version too, existed for those like me.

[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.

[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.

[kalfis049]

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