Phase 4 Way to easy?Follow

You need less of each mob for the hunting log as well I noticed.

Could have anything to do with the fact that it's your 2nd, 3rd, 4th time leveling and you've gotten better and know what's coming?

I think this is the case, with myself I started on a diff server than my friends got to 11 b4 I got the call that they were on a diff server had to recreate my character and everything I had done before. I still caught up to and surpassed them as I was just repeating what I did on P3. I knew exactly where to go for quests, how to approach fights etc.

exactly. Requiring the antidote was a nice touch and added depth to the boss fight. I have no idea why they scrapped that.

they probably nerfed it because so many people had no idea what to do in that fight. kind of a shame, but i an see why they'd dial it back. would have been better to have one of the npcs give you a couple antidotes before the fight for some seemingly unrelated reason imo.

It's easy for sure if you figure out what to do. It's only lvl 15 fights and SE doesn't want to see beginners get stuck at 15 and not making progress. At the end of the day they want to attract more players into this game and increasing difficulty definitely not going to help.

Edited, Aug 20th 2013 2:18pm by pc69

They needed to make it easier, many classes couldnt solo the solo content.

Any class could solo that quest. They just needed to pay attention and realize where the damage was coming from (poison).
Stuff like that adds depth to the game and Its sad to see Square-enix dumbing down the game. Making it easier doesnt make the game better. If other people are having trouble, they can easily ask for help. This is a MMO afterall.

Also I understand this is low level content. Its just I feel like this dumbing down will extend throughout the game and thats what Im worried about.

This isnt about being elitist either. Its about a game having depth. I dont want all the quests to be so easy that I can watch TV and not even pay attention while I'm fighting. That isnt fun to me. Fun to me is using every last ability, cooldown, and item to just barely scrape by. That is what gives the feeling of accomplishment. Or figuring out that using an antidote to cure the poison will allow you to survive long enough. Thats another way to get a feeling of accomplishment.

Edited, Aug 20th 2013 2:42pm by welly321

Having tried it in phase 3 on several jobs you are dead wrong. Marauder even with antidote was a crap shoot (took me 4 or 5 tries). Thaumaturge was impossible. So I think you dont know what you are talking about.

I died once on the THM quest right before getting to the urn because I had a second add and did not realize the true effectiveness of the sleep spell. Granted, I did not play any betas prior to beta 4 and was also new to the thurmaturge (and even black mage) professions. Since they don't have blue mage yet I thought I would give black mage a go until blue comes around.

Edited, Aug 20th 2013 2:58pm by Valkayree

He said it was impossible for a THM, i showed why it was possible. Im not going to list how to beat the 15 story quest for every class. Anyway I said this before but I do understand that this is low level content. I am just worried that if Square enix is going to dumb down this quest, then they will also dumb down others as soon as people head to the forums to call it "Impossible". One of my pet peeves is drama queens that wipe a few times and instantly declare the content impossible. Thats not helpful as feedback at all.

Also if anyone agrees with me, here is the link to the official forum thread . Post in here if you agree.
LINK

Edited, Aug 20th 2013 4:11pm by welly321

Can't walk through everything blindfolded...

Why worry about strategy and learning your class/abilities when you just gain an instawin boost after wiping a few times.

ACtually I never got the boost in phase 4 because I found it very hard to die. How big of a boost is it?