The new Standard of Gaming?

[Buddhsie]

The story dungeons are designed to be easier than optional ones because the story is meant to flow and be enjoyed. It also acts as a kind of tutorial for end game. These are things deliberately done by the devs to set you up mechanically and knowledgeably for the end game difficulty ramp-up. When you get to endgame you'll see it, trust me.

[Wobi]

Since when are casuals allowed to call people casuals? Son I work hard all day and get plenty of playtime in whenever I can, as far as I'm concerned sleep is for casuals.
OP here decided he's part of the Elite but I doubt he's cleared any difficult content in ANY of the games listed. Also I want to smack people as hard as humanly possible for saying people who work full time are casuals, simply the most ridiculous statement ever uttered.

Basically, people. Don't be a casual at life, all you will have to look back on are meaningless accomplishments in games that no longer exist.

[Feifonwong]

OP, I definitely know how you feel. However, those days are somewhat over for me. This MMO has the right balance that I need. Games that you're looking for are what I call a real diamond in the rough.

I recommend you try sandbox games like eve online, or mortals?. Good luck in your search, I hope you find what're looking for.

[Keslor]

i almost lol'd when i saw maple story mentioned

[Veis]

People are crying about garuda and titan hard mode being too hard...

I remember people crying about level 44 garuda being too hard for a story quest...

[Twoswords]

Lol tablets are just as bad as cell phones


I do have to laugh though when those who think they played a hard core mmo and never played everquest try dying and losing a level or two then you won't think repairing your armor is so bad.

I have to somewhat agree, no maps, corpse runs and random Level 35-50 mobs in zones for levels 15-25 to progress in. I will always remember Griffins and Sand Giants putting the fear in people and so many people giving OOC reports on locations and directions of those big mean mobs. Plane runs were raids of epic proportions and terribly time consuming just to even pull mobs away from the zone in so the raid could make it in. CT doing a death touch every what 30 seconds? Just getting to Nag that mean fire dragon was a pain too. going in waves and having clerics on Res duty this being all without VOIP software.

Some of that difficulty I am glad to see it go, but point made, in the beginning it was tough.

[LordSideKicks]

lol FFXIV easier then Maplestory? ROFLMAO.

[Ryuni]

Previous MMO experience will obviously make a big difference in what you consider hard in a new MMO. Developers can't develop and balance a totally new MMO for people with decades of MMO experience, that's just no how the gaming market works. So yes, if you're an experienced MMO player, you have to wait until max level to find a challenge, that's just how it is and there's nothing wrong with that. One of the goals of a new MMO is to pull in new people into the MMO genre and that won't happen if it's balanced for experienced players only.

We saw so many threads about people laughing how easy this game will be and to be honest all of these stopped quickly after launch, it seems like people that could "predict" difficulty in an MMO were just full of bull.

[Sterob]

5) Bosses that are just laughable and feel like a big trash monster

meet titan hard

I have to be at the end of a game to find any challenge?

what kind of game that the early levels are harder then end game levels?

[Rustyhagun]

People seem to forget, that this game stops at lvl 99. Lvl 50 is not the final player experience.

Just wait for it man. The game just came out. This time next year, there is going to be a lot more crazy things to play with.

And there is a lot to do now.