FFXIV Bitter Sweet

[Arkghyom]

Uh, that is so meow!

[Shan]

Way to miss the point of the thread.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...racter/133592/
If I'd use your post's style, I'd say you're one of those who rushed everything to 50 by either pleveling in 1.0 or spamming FATEs in 2.0. Then proceeding to spam all content to get your equips. I really doubt you will bother to read the reply, but well, here goes.

Neither Titan HM nor Coil is easy, no one is saying that. The point is, you get rushed to 50 so fast you don't have the time to learn your job properly, which makes those encounters even harder. Difficulty being a) dps race b) 1hko mechanics. The preparation for those encounters is a mindless repetition of AK/CM to farm tomes, getting your relic host weapon, then proceeding to prepare it in the Primal encounters. So the part where you start to actually learn your jobs is precisely at those endgame encounters, which is just bad design. And this leads to all the "MUST KNOW THE FIGHT OR GTFO" shouts. Are you part of them? I don't know. But how are new people supposed to learn this fight? And their jobs? By hammering on the training dummies? Can't figure out more than your rotations (which are too few) that way.

I suggest you re-read the thread before posting a reply.

can you farm AK like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-phgHzTbwuo
Don't blame the game if you play your job poorly.
have you practice your dps using the dummies
have you tried to improve your game play after each run?
it's your fault , not the game's fault

[Soukyuu]

can you farm AK like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-phgHzTbwuo
Don't blame the game if you play your job poorly.
have you practice your dps using the dummies
have you tried to improve your game play after each run?
it's your fault , not the game's fault

And your post just confirms what I was saying. First, you like to a video of a speedrun. Next, you ignore the part where I told you I know about the training dummies. Then you skip the rest of the post where I explained a new person can't even GET into a run because people want experience players right from the start. Lastly, you apparently still didn't read the thread as you're defaulting to the L2P stance.

To set an example:
- it wasn't about me playing my job poorly. Head over to the SCH section and check if I was crying for it to be buffed. Spoiler: I was not.
- yes, i did practice as a mnk
- yes, whenever i get the chance i do try to improve upon my mistakes
- i'm not saying the game is too hard, i'm saying it introduces you to hard content the wrong way

I'm sorry but I have to disagree with you there. Many of the mechanics present in things such as HM primals are present in way earlier dungeons. AoE-dodging circular kiting used in Garuda is the very same strategy used against Aiatar, adds with priority linking are present the fight against Galvanth, the diremite boss in Toto-Rak is the first fight with a 'heart phase' (the tail, also present in the golem boss in Qarn) as well as having a smaller version of HM Titan's bomb boulders (don't people ever friggen notice it dropping the toxin bombs on the party?).

People simply don't CARE about earlier fights and forget them almost immediately.

I might have worded that post badly, the mechanics themselves are basically the same, the point was, the implications of messing up are suddenly much more punishing. Meaning, if you had room for error, now you suddenly don't. A better way would be, imho, to reduce the room for error steadily while going through dungeons, not in "tiers"

[Skies]

Neither Titan HM nor Coil is easy, no one is saying that. The point is, you get rushed to 50 so fast you don't have the time to learn your job properly, which makes those encounters even harder. Difficulty being a) dps race b) 1hko mechanics.

I'm sorry but I have to disagree with you there. Many of the mechanics present in things such as HM primals are present in way earlier dungeons. AoE-dodging circular kiting used in Garuda is the very same strategy used against Aiatar, adds with priority linking are present the fight against Galvanth, the diremite boss in Toto-Rak is the first fight with a 'heart phase' (the tail, also present in the golem boss in Qarn) as well as having a smaller version of HM Titan's bomb boulders (don't people ever friggen notice it dropping the toxin bombs on the party?).

People simply don't CARE about earlier fights and forget them almost immediately.