Was the V&C Dungeon Finder a waste of time?

There’s no reason to keep doing them once you’ve cleared them. They hold very little interest.

Variant dungeons sounded cool on paper with the different paths but in reality they are repetitive: save the last “hidden” boss, it’s same bosses for every path with small mechanics variations. When you solo, it is just as easy but the adds and bosses feel like bullet sponges and the fights long for nothing. It feels that the adds are just there to slow you down. They have zero mechanics (just aoe and get out of stupid), the boss mechanics are way too simple and repetitive. They just keep repeating the same pattern over and over.

For the Variant Dungeons I really enjoyed collecting the 12 Sil'dih Survey Records! I looked forward to doing a run when I logged on for about three weeks while I had them to collect. The branching paths with interactions to choose the path felt fun. I think the design of the Variant Dungeons was a small success.

I have an idea about,

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on the choice to make a new dungeon system, in another menu, in another system finder.

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You might find this article very interesting when considering how systems are created in large organizations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
Perhaps the team that designed V&C dungeons were a new team, so that's why they put it in a new system?

The reason people really forget this exist is cause there isn't anything good rewards from it.

It's one of the things I was most interested in (pre release) and in some ways they did good, but they botched the landing. I've long thought the standard dungeons are so simplified as to be almost pointless and a waste of resources. We only repeat standard dungeons because there's a roulette bonus, or occasionally there may be a decent glam to farm. So we wanted dungeons that are more difficult or less linear.

Variant put in some options, but each route acts like another linear scripted dungeon, so instead of seeing everything that can happen in 1 run it just takes several runs, then there's nothing left to discover again. The thing I've really always wanted from battle content is RNG so every run is different forever, not the same formations of enemies in the same positions forever. That's what I want for lasting fun. But it also needs to be paired with lasting rewards. If there isn't a daily bonus then it's not very efficient to play it often.

Personally, I think they should of moved the queues for the deep dungeons and the adventuring forays into this menu too (did anyone else not know that's what old Diadem, Eureka, and Bozja were/are called? Adventuring Forays).
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