Cape Westwind

cut scene is longer than the trial

I wish SE would tighten up the ilevel sync on this. It was never a hard trial but it's just sad the way it is now.
Most ARR content is a bit depressing to get these days since so many mechanics don't happen anymore or just don't matter since the damage is so low.

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Originally Posted by Frizze

I dont know. Ive had an awful lot of fun over the years trying to scare sprouts with stories about how hard the first 8 person trial is while waiting out a que or cutscene. Though i honestly wouldnt complain if they went the other way and reduced the ilvl sync to something lower(maybe in the 50-70 range?). I dont know if he has any mechanics, and it might be fun to find out.

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That's literally the most fun I've had out of westwind in recent years. When a sprout says "Oh no, I'll try my best then!" after doing the whole psudo dread bit is pretty fun. I like the idea of reducing the minimum Ilevel, because most of the sprouts who are going in first time are around i45 or something, so reducing it to i50-i70 would make veterans still noticeably stronger, while making the entire roulette something that's better spent browsing youtube through.

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Originally Posted by Duskane

cut scene is longer than the trial

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This exactly, you get westind, wait 3 minutes for the sprout to watch the huge windup for the cutscene, then kill Rhytlyn in like a minute. From the sprout's point of view that probably feels awkwardly bad too. Like, imagine all this build up for a minute long trial that gets slapped into dust in a instant.

Even if the trial was JUST basic mechanics, like group wide aoes, a tank buster, and some adds. It could at least be buffed to feel at least as challenging as a slightly stronger dungeon's end boss. Because the way things are now, it's just, really sad.

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Originally Posted by Moomba33

I wish SE would tighten up the ilevel sync on this. It was never a hard trial but it's just sad the way it is now.
Most ARR content is a bit depressing to get these days since so many mechanics don't happen anymore or just don't matter since the damage is so low.

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Most X.0/1 is like this in general because it syncs you to the power level of a X.5 player. IMO it should sync you to BiS from that raid cycle, not that expansion.