Stormblood really lacked in difficult leveling dungeon

I'd say there's plenty of harder stuff this time around, like Castrum Abania's final boss. Trying to avoid the mess that's going on once 2 stacks happen is not easy.

Anything involving Bardam's is pretty difficult actually, unless you have a group that's geared up completely and knows what they're doing 100%.

I think Aurum Vale was more annoying than difficult.
Vault I'd agree on being challenging but only for the last boss

A good tank and healer can make any dungeon seem easier than it is. The opposite is also true.
Bardam's is the first huge gear jump and can be a struggle with an under geared tank still in Shire gear under the impression they need to pull big.
CA too - ignore those boss mechanics and you will die unless you can heal through the mistakes.
As with all dungeons the threat is your fellow players - not the content itself.

I'd like to have something akin to wow mythic dungeob

The vault was an issue when people didn't break their chains or stack their bacon.

AV was just cumbersome if tanks didn't know their pulls and only the first room. The rest is a joke.

Bardam's Mettle is "Dungeon/Raid mechanics for Dummies". It is amazing to me that people still don't know mechanics by level 65.

I can't say any dungeon is particularly hard in this game but DF never ceases to amaze me.

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Originally Posted by Wintersandman

Bardam's Mettle is "Dungeon/Raid mechanics for Dummies". It is amazing to me that people still don't know mechanics by level 65.

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I would say Bardam is more the first dungeon in SB where the mobs actually hit decently. The rest of it I will agree with though.

It really does depend. Not everyone was/is a shired & augmented 60 heading into the newest dungeons. I had everything for my trinity (Healer [main], Tank [off] and DPS [bored]), so things were pretty smooth for my main characters (albeit not entirely faceroll) and even the dungeon drops weren't an upgrade at this point due to the gear difference.

However, I later had to do the 61 recently where people were clearly just hitting 60+ with whatever greens they could muster. This changed the landscape quite a lot. I practically had to tank a particular run there on my max-geared MNK because the tank's gear was sub-par and/or they were clearly new to the whole thing, whereas every geared character in existence had been gagging for Stormblood and experienced it far more comfortably during its initial release due to the sheer volume of Iddyl'idlers waiting to zerg into new territory with their max toons.

I really quite enjoyed all the dungeons, some of which proved rough if your tank was in any way squishy (especially Bardam onward when all you have is the levelling gear rather than pre-maxed 60 items). Given not everyone was up to speed with the (new) bosses and mechanics, even when things were going smoothly there was potential for wrenches to be thrown in the works due to inexperience. Sadly, like any content, all of it will eventually broil back into being casual farm when you've done it all before and can pre-gear your new levellers - that's just the way it is - but if you really did believe the new stuff was pure faceroll, then clearly you were just more prepared for it than others at the time.