User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 309: The Burning Earth, Review and Commentary/@comment-4047931-20121122190323/@comment-4047931-20121122222214

It's mainly that idea of losses to the main cast that makes a story very interesting and suspenseful. It builds emotions and causes the story of the plot to become more enthralling as if I were to read a story with little to no conflict for the characters and everything went right throughout the whole story it would cause me to become uninterested. Fairy Tail is becoming like that and some of the characters are becoming over confidant and annoying. Also even though we know something bad will later on in the story but because it's talking so long to get to the 7th of July event the story is becoming dull with Fairy Tail being able to easily overcome most of their opponents especially those who were shown to be very powerful in the post-timeskip world. It's just more interesting if losses are involved, that's part of the reasons why arcs like the Tower of Heaven, Oracion Seis and Fighting Festival were so enjoyable as each had the some of the characters lose something one way or another.