Yoshi-P has brought this up before. Take a closer look at the Alexander raids. The first tier was rather nice. The second somehow... easier. Seemingly 'people' had complained about the difficuilty of the first tier so they toned it down. Naturally, that brought with it people once again complaining it was too easy. So the third tier was harder again. To paraphrase him during a liveletter "You say it's too hard, we make it easier. You say it's too easy, we make it harder. We're not listening to you anymore" (of course, the latter with lots of laughing and smiles but the message is there) Endwalkers general difficuilty is to thank to the vocal groups clamoring that things need to be simpler and a bit of an overreach of the team to 'homogenize' challenges. Their big push to make everyone able to do pretty much all of the content 'solo'. So we ended up with "In, stack, out, spread" for pretty much every fight. I am all FOR this new development. Sure, the Barreltenders "My attack is actually bigger! GOTCHA!" is annoying. But even if you're watching KZbin on another screen it shouldn't get you twice... Those Lariat combo attacks are specially annoying to me as melee, but as for which side of the arena it picks, you MUST have been sleeping for the last 99 levels if you don't know that they usually mix up left and right things like that. It'll get you once when you're on autopilot but afterwards you pay attention. And how much different is donut or line AoE announcement in that second fight from Barbariccia? A trial you must have done as part of the MSQ progression between expansions? Nah, I may not be a savage raider and EX trials might be as high as I can go due to static and real life incompatibilities. But this IS the kind of 'just a bit more than falling asleep on the job' challenge I like. And I am hoping there are enough of us to be loud enough to show the development team they should stay this course.

the normal raids are really easy. everything is clearly telegraphed and apart from the things that will hit you once and you get it (if you have a brain) like the floor breaking in m1 and m4. stuff is shown in animations or in cast names.

The difficulty complaints can only be partly be attributed to the content itself. I see it as more of a fault of the player base, or rather the player base that complained to the point that the developers homogenized everything. Even Yoshi-P acknowledges that they veered away from normal content that wasn't autopilot and stated that they'd be going back to normal content that actually presents a challenge. And that also brings up the fact that what people think is difficult is just challenging, which are too different things. Savages are difficult. Ultimates are difficult. This normal is return to form from someone that has been playing since ARR dropped. These are the types of players that would have dropped off from the game way back in the day when things were on content and weren't going into dungeons/trials/raids over geared and over leveled as they do now from ARR - EW these days.

The point about getting Origenics in leveling roulette hit me so true since it's literally what happened to me yesterday. Usually I main healer or RDM so I can usually carry people through with constant resses and good MP management, but I was leveling GNB so that wasn't on the cards. Took us almost 30 mins to clear the first boss because the healer and one of the DPS players just couldn't understand the mechanics and kept dying.

I was there for the bees that spawned with Demon Wall in Amdapor Keep. Nothing DT has thrown at us in normal content compares.

The complaints that content is too hard are from people whom I despise - tanks in Expert that don't know what mitigations are, white mages that don't use Cure 3 or Tetragrammaton, Sages that don't put Kardia on Tank, dragoons that don't use positionals or at least True North, etc. etc. I may not tried some jobs, like revamped Astro and may not know if DRK is bad or not, but one thing is still here - if you know how to play game, content won't be too hard. I don't get people not realising that Honey B. Lovely bees mechanic is not random at all and depends on player positioning - I don't consider myself being top-tier player - It took me months of prog and good team to clear UWU and I haven't cleared most of the Savage raids and I still figured that mechanic on my first go - it was like "oh, they go on pattern, it's gonna be boring... OH WAIT, NOW THEY GO ON TETHER?! Ok, let's fuckin' go!" Also, normal content isn't even that hard - final boss doesn't even have obligatory Tank LB3 moment - on my first go only me and other tank were left at roughly 40% of boss 2nd phase and we cleared it. I died multiple times during content and that's totally fine.

I am fucking IN LOVE with the more engaging normal content. The Trials, Raids, and dungeons have been the best they've ever been. I've always avoided savage and extremes because of how drastic a difficulty spike it from normal, but i hope with this the gap is closed a bit more and i can finally jump in without too much of a problem

Those people who complain about the difficulty deserve to play another game that focuses on role-playing. For the first time since SB, ffxiv is moving towards adult content with some difficulty and this whiny generation is trying to ruin the experience of those who want to raid and not play housewives. People who are finding it very difficult can continue playing normal dungeons and trials, collecting branches, painting clothes and chatting with friends. Stop crying and leave the game to those who have at least 25 IQ to play. It's funny when a person goes on the forum to cry about the difficulty of a normal content. I think it's the most shameful thing anyone can do in their life. It's basically saying to yourself: I failed, I'm a failure, I have no ability to learn the sum of 1 + 1. Come on...

Story skips should only be available for alt characters that are linked to accounts that have cleared content milestones like each expansion. If you buy a game and pay for a subscription to skip out on the main selling point you're an absolute moron with no right or reason to be playing the game.

based take. story is like 10% of the game lmao, you won't miss much. So many good point to skipping both job and story: You get to play with friends who are already max level and you can have fun playing with them on the most recent content. And even after skipping, the game has a new game + system that allows you to replay the story. So you can play endgame already and still play the story whenver you want. Also, leveling a job from 0 to like ~70 takes foreever, and you won't even learn how to play it. Just boost a job, go on a dummy and train your rotation, and thats it. The game is easy enough so that people can do that lmao

Lemme just buy this game known for its incredible world building and story telling and just skip all that...seems like a good choice.

In terms of story, yes this could have been a good starting point for players however given the nature of the content it's an awful starting point for new players. The dungeons/trials/raids require knowledge of the game which is not something you'll get if you pick it up at 90 and try to start with 7.0, you'll have a bad time and most likely stop playing because of how much you are getting curb-stomped. If they want to have a new jumping point they have to figure out how to teach players the mechanism behind mechanics so they aren't blindly running into content with no idea as to what they are suppose to do.

If I story skipped and then did the full DT experience, I would think that the story I missed was similarly half-baked and contrived, which would be a real shame.

As someone who got to heavensward like, 3 years ago, stopped playing, and came back recently, I don’t think skips should be incentivized at all. Apart from how good the story is, it gives you ample time to get a feeling for how to play your class. In the last like 2 weeks I’ve went from heavensward to the end of base shadowbringers, and I’ve never been more in love with the game. While I get some people aren’t interested in the story, there’s a lot of other MMOs out there for those people. It’s the core foundation of the game and I think providing a story skip would lead to any new players coming in being way more likely to drop the game way sooner. Edit: I get what you mean about recommending the game to new players, but if you are recommending the most story driven mmo on the market to someone, you should be aware if they will care about the story or not. 200 hours in an mmo is nothing as we all know lol

Imagine skip everything and the only new thing you got is the dogshit story of Dawntrail...not a good starting point...

I do think a lot of the early story should be condensed to ease the onboarding but skipping the story outright is against this games core design.

Do you have the link?

Hey man! You are skilled in this game! Could you make a guide on how to learn boss timings in Vindictus?

Maybe he quit cuz his static i think

hey man how can I play FFXIV dawntrail if my country is not included? Im curious when you play this game so i want to play it too.. Im from Philippines BTW i hope you could help me

thanks! very helpful :D

Really good video! BTW for me Kael is a most clear and understandable class with smooth movement and combat! Thx for video about Vindictus!

This idiot has the worst takes

Two avalanche deaths, sadge

returning for the solo content

RPR #2 in solo dmg for no reason lol why does it have a raid buff then

if the rewards less than %75, I won't return this shtty game

Honestly, this is just the cost of Dark Knight finally getting some self sustain. Anyone who thought they wouldn't lose damage in exchange is living in a fantasy world

Sorry no summoner has physical ranged mobility. Therefore it should do physical ranged dps.

First! ❤

Bulshit only tank list

Nice now, go do that in Wor Qor Ex or everstep ex and see how that works out for you...😊

well i appreciated the machinist guides. good luck on your endeavors

the calm elevator music seems to fit these raids :) Crazy how different they are compared to LA

Man the state of this games balance, in both casual and raid content, is abysmal at the moment.

I cant read the list... where does Nin fall?

It's just the warrior who make this possible, as well as the pally, the DPS aren't really needed.

Lost ark is absolutely pathetic

wait bard is actually good this expac? First i will level samurai then bard.

A tip with the ff14 community dude the game is heavily story driven so people will not watch any spoiler content especially this fresh into the xpac. They are the one community that don’t play when it comes to the msq lol

bump

Imagine Casters not having rez am i right?

LOL

Solo Raids are the only thing that can bring me back to playing Lost Ark again.

Agent K lives another day.

this game is design to do rmt,

Wow looks like so much fun

why TF MCH at the bottom for damn near everything if its supposed to be the "selfish dps" of the ranged phys.

can we just look at how well balanced this game is when the difference between 1st place and 9th place is infinitesimal. The only things you can take from this chart is redmage is still mid, blackmage isn't king anymore, and don't play ranged phys lol. Otherwise play whatever dps you find most fun.

in dawntrail they are focusing at the battle content means the mechanics and the boss and they will focus on the JOBs changes and identity in 8.0 .Yoshi p said the he will change the game step by step to not overwhelm the players with big changes he will let them adapt to the bosses in 7.0 first and after that in 8.0 makes jobs more fun to play .