Why is everyone in this game is afraid to...

[Wade]

Everything is hard if you are not informed or experienced, and of course, things get progressively easier once you've experienced it. Try this again when you've done it so many times that you lost count, the whole sequence becomes automaton, THEN, can you truly say the fight is still hard?

I couldn't drive as a child and it looked hard...give me driving lessons and years of driving...
I can't fly a plane...give me a year of doing it and I'll take off and land without thinking...

Like I said, misuse of the word "easy". Almost everything is easy once you do it enough, it's often hard work getting there.

[NoctisCaelus]

Nothing is easy. Success for Ifrit HM, Garuda HM, Titan HM, Bahamuts Coil, almost everything depends on teamwork. If one person doesn't know what to do, that's a potential wipe for everyone. EVERYONE. No matter how easy you think it is. If one person doesn't know what he or she is doing, they can bring the entire team down.

If you want to be the best player, it's not to surround yourself with players on your level but to be able to teach people how to do certain things. Be willing and have the patience to deal with mistakes and still striving towards success. There's a learning curve, some players get it right away, some don't.

[Meleena]

Everything is hard if you are not informed or experienced, and of course, things get progressively easier once you've experienced it. Try this again when you've done it so many times that you lost count, the whole sequence becomes automaton, THEN, can you truly say the fight is still hard?

By this definition nothing will be hard ever.

Have you see the people that play blind tetris at max speeds with reversed screens?
I wonder if that is hard for them now that they are at a machine level when they play it.

[Balaur]

If you get a good group who has their stuff together, and you know the stuff and the tricks, and memorize the patterns bosses provide you, most of the content runs smoothly. You're still fighting on the edge of your seat; positioning and correct skill timing is still important. You need a Paladin offtaking Ifrit or your meter won't go very high and people have to dodge Eruptions; you need a caster to blow Meteor on the Nails. Some of these things you have to aim for, and not having them makes the content harder. Garuda gives you a priority system for dodging behind rocks and defeating certain adds. Titan is a royal pain, until you know his system. Learning this is hard; mastering it is very hard for most people.

[Pandastirfry]

Everything is hard if you are not informed or experienced, and of course, things get progressively easier once you've experienced it. Try this again when you've done it so many times that you lost count, the whole sequence becomes automaton, THEN, can you truly say the fight is still hard?

yes, once you have learned how to do something it has become easy... for you. take this as an example, for Me calculating the orbital pathways for bodies in space is hard, for a NASA engineer it's easy. or closer to home, people THINK making a souffle is hard, but being a trained chef, I know that once you learn the technique they're actually simple, or heck to someone who's practiced the violin for much of their lives, it's an easy instrument to play, If I tried it tomorrow, I'd find it very hard...

Everything becomes easy once you learn how to do it, however learning how to do something is the hard bit, if something is still hard after you've learned how to do it...well then you obviously haven't finished learning how to do it.

[Shneibel]

"Chimera is easy"
"Getting relics is easy"
"AK is easy"
"Titan Hard is easy"

actually, those thing are easy when you get hang on it. I have not win titan, but after practice party 3h continues wipe by titan I dare say it is not hard, just need to get hang on it.

[Feathery]

I never play FFXI and I will admit that I think this game is hard. As a healer I've found myself struggling and having to really be at the top of my game since Qarn more or less and I don't think it's been getting easier since then.

[Meleena]

actually, those thing are easy when you get hang on it. I have not win titan, but after practice party 3h continues wipe by titan I dare say it is not hard, just need to get hang on it.

Sure its not hard, thats why there are people going around, selling Titan runs, because its not hard and everyone can do it, you know like the other people who sell Satasha runs....

[Meleena]

I never play FFXI and I will admit that I think this game is hard. As a healer I've found myself struggling and having to really be at the top of my game since Qarn more or less and I don't think it's been getting easier since then.

I have played XI for many years, 99.99 of that game's difficulty was due to bad mechanics (old game) and time consuming requirements to do anything.

[MrSmiley]

actually, those thing are easy when you get hang on it. I have not win titan, but after practice party 3h continues wipe by titan I dare say it is not hard, just need to get hang on it.

Please tell me what your idea of hard is.