Was I RIGHT about Endwalker? YoshiP BRUTALLY HONEST about FFXIV 

Agreed, but the comments on this very video also have haters genuinely calling for YoshiP to be fired. That definitely isn't helpful either. Both sides need to be shut down as they both will try to ruin the game for their own delusions.

@@whisperingshadowXI Bruh 1) That's *Counterproductive* 2) You just *Contradicted* Yourself.

Says the Zepla fanboys 😂😂😂

if you really love something, your relationship can survive honesty

@@adam.maqavoy @adam.maqavoy How is telling people that blindly love/hate the game to shut the fuck up so we can have constructive dialogue counterproductive? You do know you can enjoy a game without being a fanboy and criticize a game without being a hater, right? People are more complex than just being one extreme or another. And trying to impose otherwise is why we're in this mess in the first place (ironic because it was exactly this type of bullshit that the FFXIV story is always warning about lmao).

Based. Truth.

I don't get the joke, also I'm an incel

Competitive spirit and being passionate is not the same as being toxic :)

Hehehehehe :- P

I felt that

I just wish, that for relics grind you did 1 time for your main weapon that is hard and after that is just super easy and not time consuming to get the other ones. Just my opinion.

I also don't want to mistake grindy for engaging - grinds can be engaging (bozja). I also do not want to go back to the light grind, whether in Eureka, HW or ARR. Imho if there is a piece of content I can just turn up to and work on multiple different things at once that isn't so hard that I need a dedicated group and a schedule to prog. If you think "wow, you're describing bozja" Yes Yes I am.

@@juan-ij6xj thats just what shb did with the 'one time grind' which was a terrible idea

:o What happened to the vault? nerfed?

I also loved every hard dungeon. It was.. hard.. as a healer.. It was the time where tank will pull one batch first to test the healer skills, before deciding to wall to wall pull.

@@VentusLionheart definitely seemed like it when I played it recently. Seemed they had changed some of the mechanics to make it easier.

I also remembered liking the Vault for the same reason. Seeing my tank suddenly die when I'd gotten used to only half paying attention in a few of the previous dungeons gave me a bit of a jolt that made me want to be better at healing. I generally don't need half my buttons in some of the current dungeon content. Not saying we have to make things hard again just ways they can be more engaging.

The vault was the first healer gear and skill check. But, it was also a tank gear check. It was easy if gear was up to date. It was a mess if the healer didn't have good gear or, universe forbid, didn't do their job quests.

Imagine being a sprout healer back then having to go through healing that dungeon only to get hit with the emotional nuke in the following cutscene immediately after 😭

There should have been a part where, if you were a healer, you tried to heal him but the wound was too deep and your magic wasn't strong enough for it at the time.

I healed the vault in stormblood and I remember that being a VERY stressful experience, we wiped multiple times to the wizard asshole (forget his name).

I've seen cases of games omitting certain mechanics and the like in their sequels because they didn't get much feedback on them even though people liked them. Then they're baffled when fans ask them to do something similar again. Yeah, it's good to criticize the bad but definitely highlight what you like as well so devs know when they're on the right track.

They seem to not the thing they add will not benefit casuals and solo players

they generally only look at the JP side, EU/NA gets usually ignored completely.

unfortunately no the developers only learn about things from interviews which are screened in advanced by the shitty suits who run things behind scenes which is why its so important to have player surveys and player interviews not sponsored by Square F*ing Enix cause their PR is going to nuke any such constructive or critical feedback to make the game better in the long run for everyone involved what we are seeing now is that FINALLY our voices are starting to pierce thru the bullshit but honestly its probably too late they've lost alot of people already some might come back but they wont stay long if the developers can't prove to them they are capable of actually listening an pushing for improvements in the way they handle gameplay, story telling, quality control and rewards. i know alot of people who are bitter an resentful towards Square Enix for allowing things to drag out this long it really feels like a slap in the face for all those who stuck out with ffxiv this entire time and some even say "WHY NOW?!" and why not 5 even 8 years ago!?" either way i think those with betrayed expectations are due an explanation and maybe even a bit of an public apology or at least acknowledgement that their extremely long service of support toward the game has not gone unnoticed similar to how the 1.x players(legacy) where personally acknowledged by all of the staff at CBU 3 an even the company president apologized for the disaster it caused. and for alot of these players they look at Dawntrail as being the last straw as well so this expansion could be the most important one of all as this is going to set a precedent going forward.

I agree with this but tbf let’s take Alliance raids for example. The old Stormblood and Shadowbringers to this day at least hold up well. Compare this to the new Thaleia one where it was mundane and boring on the 2nd attempt for many, hell the first for me. Fact is most new duties (EW) are just that boring compared to their old counterparts.

The problem is the queue constantly puts us in the same dungeons.. I've done the alexander raid more times than I can count. the one time every month I get something thats not from ARR or HS I get super excited.

thats how I felt when eureka first came out, everyone was getting oneshotted just from walking past the mobs and it was hilarious 😂 So chaotically fun

maybe improving challenges would be helped if they actually added some modern practice modes instead of always expecting players to learn in the actual duty. give sprouts/etc actual rewords for doing well in practice sessions and everyone gets better at the game.

Or at least equal challenges. There are times where an inverse difficulty curve can work but an MMO isn't one of them.

Not really, no. In RPGs, levels are a storytelling device more often than a difficulty device. Generally, the intro to the game is easier, but then it reaches a plateau and the rest is more for story telling of your character "getting stronger". Encounter difficulty tends to remain mostly static outside of the intro levels of the game.

I can’t wait to hear who is the blade of Mikala?

Prepare to cry!

Agreed. If I'm being honest, I'd prefer to just be healing and remove the DPS requirement. I'm not saying take away damaging abilities. Just that the #1 thing a healer should be doing is healing and healing because it's actually needed. In a good group a healer is so dull to play because you're mostly spamming the 1-2 damage spells you have and sometimes tossing out a heal.

I do my expert roulette as a healer for fast queues and I think 90% of my time is spent glaring at the enemy really hard. At least 5% of the rest is running from point to point. The rest is hitting Dia every 30 secs, Holy spam for packs and maybe 1% is OCGD heals?

if you're actually geared as a healer it's even worse. Not only do you never have a reason during fights to ever use a GCD. You don't even have to use half of your oGcd's. And in casual content cuz of this you often endup in top 3 in dps lol

Mentor roulette is stressful as Healer. Gotta do all the mechanics while raising three sprouts who stand in every mechanic. You'll be managing 100 things at a time, carrying 3 corpses to victory.

Nowadays even if the healer k.o.ed during a boss fight in a dungeon, seldom we get a reset because the tank and the dps can just heal themselves up no problem lol... I hope healers are actually needed again in DT

yesss

And it was better that way

Never forget

Git gud!

You also got extra experience if you cleared everything. Now you only get the punishment, no extra experience.

YEP. Game needs better content and game interactions.

As a developer myself (not game developer, but as a web developer), constructive negative feedback are the most useful feedback for us, this type of feedback always leads us to fix issues our clients have (because they clearly express that something is missing or something could be better). Extremely positive feedback is awesome for our ego most of the time, but it does not leads to build a better product, since there is not a need to archive.

U love to see it

this honestly drives me nuts about the xiv community. you aren't allowed to criticize their game or you face the wrath of the so called "positivity" people. the game has a lot of issues that need to be addressed

​@@kevvymetall749 the toxic casuals and the toxic positivity people are far worse than the toxic raiders in this game. It is honestly really grating sometimes.

This is probably the most mature response in these comments.

True!! I think another good thing to point out that while he did say the content was too easy and they're going to make it where players have to think and strategize more, he also said they are going to keep developing the solo content and with their current new goals for large scale, more strategized content, they are still going to be updating and working on the solo content (like the variant dungeons) for more of the solo/casual players as well. I really admire YoshiP and have immense respect for him as a game designer, you really can't make a game for everyone, but it is clear that he sees every type of player in his game - casuals, hardcore, midcore, crafters, people who're just there for the story, levelers, etc etc. What makes him so great is that he not only sees, but acknowledges, the different players that play FFXIV and he wants to make content that engages everybody but in their own different ways. Watching him explain the timeline of development and their different focuses they had for each expansion just really shows how much he listens to his player audience and cares for not only the game, but for them, for us. All in all, I think its so cool that YoshiP is constantly driving and pushing himself and his team to try different things, to find what works, what doesn't, and if they make mistakes along the way then they'll learn from that and know what to do right. Seeing you talk about that made me so excited and I just had to rant about this for a sec cause seeing YoshiP actually care about his players, and all of his players, is really incredible and admirable to me

Two developer who put their heart into game YoshiP and Murray(NMS).

I'll be honest, with games like Elden Ring, Cyberpunk, etc, it won't matter how good the game is without extensive visual overhauls. Gameplay is number 1 but I don't have a 4090 to play pong. MMOs are notorious for being YEARS behind visually and there isn't anything that can bring some of us back to extremely visually dated games.

There's so many things to do that unless you get tunnel vision into "no, no, I MUST pass this step or my life is ruined!!!", the existence of harder parts isn't a game stopper.

Eh? You can jump into raid with crafted gear no problem. Do you mean gearing for Ultimates and 4,8,12 savages? Because I agree that BiS should require grind and time.

@@magikonkuiz Nha, we should be able to drop those raid gear for all our jobs. Not just one. That would keep me busy. Whats the point of having all those jobs if i can play just 1 per week? For the whole raid season? That doesnt achieve anything. We should be dropping 1 per JOB per week. And, dude, have you seen the p4ice of the. Rafted gear? Cost a fortune to put that on every job. I hate crafting and i am cheap. I want TO PLAY for my gear. Not work. I work in my week days. I play when i play a game.

god it was worse back in the day, tanks that didnt use tank stance took more damage and even good healers could have a rough time with that.

lost my reddit account with minus 100 karma because i said i dislike shadowbringers -> endwalker changes for monk, and explained why i think so. It didn't matter, what mattered was fact i dislike something about the game. So yeah, can confirm this convoluted hate and toxicity is real in ff...

I think he's done a great job so far as well!

Time will tell. I would be happy if fates experience was revamped. As an alternative to doing the same dungeons over and over and over.

This legit was kind of making me nuts 🤣🤣🤣

Not the first video with mic focus.

So I guess that makes her a ... *sunglasses on* fuzzy bunny.

she needs to be careful, or youtube might not recognize her again

The mic is Zepla. What are you talking about?

Yeah, it's especially bad for tanks and healers. At least a fair amount of DPS jobs feel unique enough. I'm a noob with DPS though so I might be wrong.

@@erasablefallen7223 No you are right, that the DPS are a bit more differentiated vs Tanks/Healers. But not as much as they were pre-shadowbringers.

Nail on the head... The vault clearly wasn't that much of an issue, Heavensward endgame was as busy as any other time lol. Players weren't getting by on a fluke, they just engaged with the game... And why shouldn't you be, playing for that long and being a few levels from max?

Yeah but as a returning player myself, I would prefer that over what we have now. It's so easy and braindead that I stopped typing out that I'm rusty when I come back and play healer or tank and can handle everything almost as easily as before I took a break even if I forget what some of my skills do.

unfortunately that's just the nature of discourse and reach of the internet. some people are just born that way quite literally.

People disagreed with her opinion is why, she didn't give it in a constructive way, something that has been thoroughly explained. Plenty of other people critiqued EW and got zero hate. That says it all.

Different opinion arent " hate " ppl simple disagreed with her that all

a lot of people conflate things they like with their sense of self, and when someone criticizes the things they like, they take it as a personal attack because they lack the emotional intelligence or self-esteem to tell the difference. it's a maturity thing, imo. but i agree!

​@@candykit5382 this

I just want the game to stop being so boring and easy. It's ridiculous how mind numbingly safe the game feels at times. Like what they did to AST, instead of adjusting the card effects so people would stop using only Balance, they made ALL of the cards damage boosts. Easy, safe and braindead to use. -_-

live service games are always updating though this is what people need to understand its not something you can compare to a single player or mobile. and for ffxiv in particular you pay a sub monthly or quarterly so its a time committed investment you are deciding to make so therefore because of that you as a customer/consumer should have a say in how the game operates because you are literally paying for its continued development. where as in solo games the best you can do is just not play, not buy, or right a critique to hope your message is put across to developers and publishers.

I would argue currently and for nigh half a decade, they're pleasing anyone *but* "gamers" because gamers would be happy to grapple with new mechanics and dare I say, some depth in an online RPG they're subscribed to. Why subscribe and commit, just to headbutt keyboard and afk limsa and text chat

I agree, and truthfully, the elite hard-core players who complain about the game constantly are in the minority, most people love FF14 and the content Yoshi-P has made, and they provide constructive criticism about things they dislike rather than complaining

The bozja mount for sure for me too. And eureka as a whole was a great time for me. Not just completing the maps but also getting some extra marks for some of the weapon and gear skins. And I got super lucky and won a speed belt and sold it for $15 million.

I'll never forget running down to the podium on my Necromancer clear. Just in sheer disbelief that I had finally accomplished it

Like DSR and aloalo savage

For you maybe. The majority of players find that annoying and end up quitting. This isn’t a job. Why do you think they gained so many millions of players and only a tiny minuscule percentage play the hardcore parts? No one likes it!

@@thomaspetersen3220 I'm not only talking about FFXIV (I've been gaming for 37 years). I myself have never done any hardcore content on FFXIV (Never done the fox things). Also never raided professionally.

Even when delivery is in the best way possible, some people's lives revolve around the game and the slightest criticism becomes a criticism to themselves. - and they just attack the person voicing out their concern. Nevertheless, the feedback is feedback. Stop preventing your own game from getting better.

@@ReyRey277 True, some people just don’t understand that just because someone has issues with a product; doesn’t mean they hate it.

I very much agree. Having criticisms is fine, but framing it as "my opinion is more valid than your opinion" is only going to serve to divide people. I get that she received abusive responses for her opinions, but smugly saying "Yoshi-P agrees with me, I told you so" is not going to change anyone's mind. If anything, it's only lead to further abusive and unconstructive discussion. She's essentially giving the dickheads recognition by engaging with them, while also alienating people who don't agree with her views but want to engage in constructive discussions about it.

if you watch her original video criticizing the endwalker patch content, she delivered in the nicest way possible. and people reacted as if she was xQc

@@BriGuy77711 very much this. personally I find the game as it exists in Endwalker to be exactly what I was looking for in a game. even without trying to prog in extreme/savage/ultimate content, there was enough content for me to maintain my sub the whole of the expansion. with that said, I may not have agreed with everything she said in the previous video on the topic, but it was a fair opinion. this video on the other hand, seems like it was made more as a "I told you so, haha I'm right and you're wrong." the problem with critisism as a whole, is that the ones giving it are often (not always) a vocal minority. positive feedback is less common because the people who would give it are enjoying the game and don't find a need for anything to change. it's fair to say that a decent chunk of development time has gone to updating past content to be compatible with the duty support system this expansion, I highly advise going back through many of the older duties that are part of the MSQ to see the changes for yourself, I still get duties in leveling roulette that I haven't gone back to every once in a while and get suprised like "that's not how I remember this." I can hope that the time they save not having to go back and change the old cotent going forward is used to create a balance between how the game is now in a place where I am very happy with what I am getting out of it, and the more challenging experience that what I suspect has been a vocal minority has been asking for.

But that is supposed to be an RPG's bread and butter. Meaningful choices, or spec'ing out for a certain battle, stuff like that. But they really took "role playing game" literally for this one. You play one role, and there's one way to play it.

Summoner, for example, feels garbage to play below lv 86, (when they get the primal abilities), until then it's basically just a healer rotation: green 1111, yellow 1111, red 11, rinse and repeat.

lolwut? he's not fucking bobby kotick... the guy's known for delivering on his word WTF are you on about?

Yes, he sometimes overpromises then blame it in the translation. He would have made a good politician.

@@zeening he's just one man and not just that his language skills are limited to japanese(his native language) and basic English(because its a business requirement in order for him to travel and do what he does for publicity) so unless you met face to face with the man an can confirm his own thoughts, you literally have no clue whether he's telling the truth or just thinking aloud to himself but 8 times out of 10 he does agree with the playerbase but it doesnt mean by any stretch of the imagination that the company for which he works will listen much less care about what opinions he or his players have.

It's been going down the homogenous jobs/roles route heavily since Shadowbringers... 2019. That's where some jobs got noticeably gutted of the few unique things they even had. So that boat steers real slow. They've been scared to rock said boat since very early on, and decided to cater to people that for some reason would commit to subscribing to a game, but not to learning a game with, god forbid, some depth. So now there's literally shooting games with more meaningful choices and depth than a supposed online RPG. And yet it's succeeding and possibly the most popular MMO currently? Talk about a stagnant genre, in that case.

Yes yes and yes. I am so fed up of crystal tower being 20 minutes of my brain melting as I tap 3 buttons. The difficulty needs a huge increase. Not just to make it actually worth doing alliance raid roulette, but to make the other raids actually viable to do. I haven't seen nier for half a year. The newest alliance raids don't happen. It's just crystal tower, infinitely occurring brain liquification

@@muhc2931 i REFUSE to run alliance roulette and haven't in like 3 yrs now, i specifically que for the lvl 90 ones because i would genuinely rather unsub than ever ever run ANY of the CT raids again after the absolute brain rot i've seen in there and being reported for getting so frustrated i swore at someone intentionally trying to wipe the raid on last boss of WoD. it is NOTHING but CT raids and people ABSOLUTELY REFUSE to follow BASIC directions or mechanics. plus you can cap on tomestones super early tuesday mornings from hunt trains but even that is getting insanely fking boring after months and months of it....

Well it seem dawntrail will give zero casual and solo post msq unlike ew all to cater to midcore player who want long grind midcore content .

​@@anteprs7908 They never said that. Duty support is still there, there will be new Variant dungeons, MSQ isn't expected to get any harder either, there's no purpose in that. Everything that made it into the game for EW to catter to solo players will still be expanded in DT. What's different is they'll, allegedly, bring back the excitement of engaging with content. Dungeons probably won't change because of Duty Support existing, but they can try new things with trials and alliance raids without actually make them impossible to clear for casual players.

@@avrax3497 that fine i hope as it should be i just fear we wont get any solo /causal content after msq at least in ew we had island santuary (in dawntrail they add firment like content that for crafter not really solo/casuals) and i hope we get optional tomes on relics i dont wanna run midcore content as casual to get relics.trails like extreme trail is fine alliance sure but not normal trail they need to be msq lv .

@@anteprs7908 Yeah I get you. As far as relics are concerned, they made it sound like there will still be tome steps, or something similarily easy to get, on top of offering a grindier alternative, so I would not worry too much for now. I couldn't find it, but I'm 99% certain they said in an interview at some point they would keep working on Island Sanctuary, so if I'm not misremembering, there would also be that to look forward too.

Eureka and Bozja are fun to at least add some new goal and content to work on. Plus doing those raids on release are pretty fun

Agreed. Sometimes people just wanna play and chill, not be stressed in game. It's especually true when you play after work\study, there's just little mental juices left, but these people are still valid players. In the end you can't please all anyways, and I'm happy they are doing something to freshen things up.

Hard disagree, as a raider I'll feel upset if someone that barely knows what a rotation is, has the same weapon as me because he like to play on Island Sanctuary. Different rewards, for different type of contents. Is it that hard to understand?

@@7RicolmE7 Meanwhile someone with an Ultimate title rolls in to Expert Dungeon Roulette and you wonder how they find their way out of bed in the morning.

@@clintmatthews3500 oh boy, don't Even get me started with the Tank mentors that don't use mitigations

this.... people crying about the current method and screeching about how "REEEEE NO I WANT TO HAVE TO RUN 480 FUCKING SYNCED RAIDS AGAIN!!!!!" can genuinely piss RIGHT off.

Idk. I feel like that's just normal level dungeon content in general. I mean outside of M0 and M+, wow has many similar problems with dungeon design and content like that being the same feeling.

​@@NeoPancake_ Yea but wow has M+ which is endless difficult content, FFXIV needs something similar, criterion doesn't cut it

@@celestielsigh Naw WoW just needs money and plugins and the game becomes piss easy. It's actually really sad how the meta has become there. Legit only the wealthiest full-time gamers clear world firsts and it's the same fucking people every fucking time because they just have the wealth to get the needed plugins programmed before anyone else. Skill is increasingly irrelevant because the top gamers memorized their mechs eons ago and now just have to blindly follow the plugins to win (y'know, the same thing people like to bitch about in FFXIV lol). I'd rather the game have world clear be off skill alone than encouraging people to pay some sweaty coders to make plugins to make ultimates/savages piss easy.

You know, you don't really have to even do dungeons, right? After the first clear, you can gear and max your tomes without ever running a dungeon.

​@@BaithNa What's the point of your comment? Why bring up ignoring the content as if its any solution in your snarky, pretending to be informative, retort? There's no reason dungeons should be as stale as they are and saying "Just don't do them" is retarded.

Bow chicka bow wow

Completely different game type and genre.

You can do most dungeons with AI party members now but the 8/24 man content you would need to play with others

@@Genericusername1004 omg cool thank you ☺️

@@Sakura873 is a fun game if you’re looking for a story driven mmo. A realm reborn is pretty dated and slow paced though. Definitely picks up in the last quest lines before heavensward, which is my favourite expansion

People generally pretty nice. Of you have anxiety playing with random dudes, you can set up a group search and point out you are a newbie / first timer. That way you usually end up with a supportive bunch of guys :)

It's why I won't raid. I have issues with trying to get mechanics down [5th grade comprehension] and seeing raids filled with 80% team wide deaths, 10% instant single person deaths and 10% normal mechanics, as a healer main I wonder why I'm even there. I don't mind mechanics but the AMOUNT of them you have to remember and NOT fk up or how most make healer obsolete drives me up the wall...

literally noone does that, if anything it's the literal exact opposite of people constantly joining and FKING REFUSING to follow basic directions or instructions or mechanics and getting snippy and pissy when even asked if they know the fight/have seen a guide, MONTHS AND MONTHS AFTER RELEASE... NOONE expects people to "know the fights and have guides watched 3 days after content comes out", and even if they did TBH guides are more than out after 3 days so why wouldn't you? AND generally if people ARE EXPECTING THAT, they SAY SO in the PF listing..... whereas when people who join/make a PF just so they can not be kicked when they sit there and press 3 fking buttons while everyone else tries their ass off, there's no heads up for that and half the time you can't even tell unless you're using 3rd party tools because the game FULL THROATED protects people who refuse to put in the bare minimum of effort. srsly read the TOS you CAN be reported for politely asking a tank to put their tank stance up, you HAVE to phrase it as a suggestion and if they say no then you have to deal with it or leave, you CANNOT demand or say they have to put tank stance up.... EVEN THOUGH THAT IS LITERALLY WHAT THEY QUE'D FOR!!!!! that is LITERALLY IN THE TOS....

@@zeening Yeah no, I encountered that myself, tried some raids and savage content and people were getting angry enough to rage quit after literally one wipe sometimes, more often 2. I've had good experiences with people actually being helpful and patient with people new to the content but I've seen mostly negative which is why I don't want to get involved with that content in the first place.

God i loved the plot of Nier but dread getting them, the sponge bosses suck...

I think the problem is a large chunk of the player base feel like the bar has gotten crazy low for more casual content in regards to difficulty with nothing in between that and Savage.

main issue I see is the gap between savage/ultimate content, and Story/extreme content. There's nothing in between. Story content is so easy it actually turns players away from the game, extreme content only requires you to know what every AOE marker means. Then the next jump in difficulty is savage where it would take a new player hours just to understand what they are supposed to do, let alone execute it.

Plus not everyone has the time to practice for a savage.

This is the easiest mmorpg by a landslide. I am not an elitist. (:

Easy fix for that is to nerf echo. I don't really remember dun scaith and orbonne being more difficult than any of the other instances, just echo allows you to skip MASSIVE parts of a lot of older instances. Remove echo and lower ilvl cap for ARR 24 mans and people will remember those runs weren't supposed to be easy either. People dealt with more difficult content in ARR/HW, they can do it again in DT.

Every Single Day, I see ppl quit as soon as they instance into CT so what exactly is your point?

@shawnbarino880 I've NEVER seen people quit CT. Ever. Why would they when it's easy and quick? All I see is players changing gear. But they'll absolutely quit World of Darkness whenever there's mass death from the first adds

What else can you expect from a game that is being treated like a fashion chat room with hyper casual middle-aged people playing that don't have the same reactions that they used to.

I like your pfp, it's really cute!

Some suggestions to make content more challenging/interesting (just throwing them out there not a be all end all list lol): Bring back untelegraphed mechanics, soft enrage dps checks (like the boss crit shield from HW), cleansable debuffs especially doom/poison/blind/paralysis/damage down, make tank busters kill tanks or hit tanks so frequently it will kill them unless properly mitigated/shielded, instant death attacks and of course mechs/adds that will wipe the raid if not dealt with as a team (but not to the point one troll can sabotage the whole raid)

​@@whisperingshadowXIGod I felt that last point 😂 So much Aglaia trauma from trolls deliberately killing the raid during the balance mechanic.

That called having casual content it not mean to be challanging but simple and easy to make it more difficult you ruin it for casual players .

The reason dungeons are the way they are is because they tried to add more paths and the like- and most people hated it. They'd always find the most efficient route, get their tomes and get out. I think adding some randomness to the dungeons would gelp immensely to keep them fresh- just leave it on the players to choose as they will always go for what's optimal.

@@KLGChaos they adeed variant dungs for those who want that

I'm just curious from your PoV. What has gotten harder? Outside of Ultimates what has actually gotten more difficult over the expansions for you? Personally speaking this game has been extremely easy when it comes to alot of things.

@@Temptest09 What funny is that Endwalker, the END of the story had the easier content. And Dawntrail, which is the better starting off point for new players, will have harder content. I realize that covid and the WoW exodus was a unique situation, so they wanted to cater to all of the new players, while also working on ff16, but i hope they revisit Endwalker and re-tool some of those fights. Most players pay the game linearly any way. So I don't think the newest content has to be easier. If they have played from ARR-EW they should have a grasp of the basics by the time they get to EW.