Why is Yoshi P turning his back on the playerbase that loves this game the most?

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Originally Posted by ADVSS

yeah that was a really odd decision, i had to laugh when i read it in the patch notes, so far i find dueling kind of fun

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I looovveee the dueling zone. I absolutely love it. But I love destroying players in the game and still having a good laugh. Not too mention you learn things from other players to better shape your dps with the attacks you pull in those battles. And I love hearing from people who give tips. The community is strong in this game if you play your cards right. But the decisions they make up top or at the helm of this game hasnt been the best decisions since 3.0 dropped.

I seriously almost threw my computer out the window when I saw we were getting a DF for LoV

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Originally Posted by Elkanah

I looovveee the dueling zone. I absolutely love it. But I love destroying players in the game and still having a good laugh. Not too mention you learn things from other players to better shape your dps with the attacks you pull in those battles. And I love hearing from people who give tips. The community is strong in this game if you play your cards right. But the decisions they make up top or at the helm of this game hasnt been the best decisions since 3.0 dropped.

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the pier is a lot of fun was watching this drg just destroy warriors, mnks, etc so my friend told me to go on drg and challenge them and totally got my butt handed to me lol so much more fun that say fl where you get ganged on, youre absolutely right i hope they put an arena in more towns or something(coliseum in ul'dah im looking at you) hpnestly i feel liike the triple triad battle arena idea should be an update for a wd like pier cross server area fpr 1v1 in the future, even

Pretty much like I told you Reynhart. If this game was called something else other than Final Fantasy it would not have been as successful. The name is keeping people here more than the actual game.

I'm fine with increasing the gap between players. Like allowing people to get to iLevel 300 if they work hard enough, hard to get, but possible. Don't just lock everybody to i270 because we need to wait for the flipfloppers in case they decide to comeback for a month after the next patch or something.

Level and equipment syncing should be an option. It's so boring that some content force us to be weaker.

Limitations are boring. RNG is boring. Lots of boring MMO features shouldn't be in the game. Try something new. Clone WoW all you want but don't clone something that isn't good. Make people keep playing the game because it's entertaining. Make combat faster and stop holding people back with stupid general cooldown.

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Originally Posted by FizzleofHyperion

Pretty much like I told you Reynhart. If this game was called something else other than Final Fantasy it would not have been as successful. The name is keeping people here more than the actual game.

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Bullshit.

People were extremely skeptical at the time this game originally came out after the general disappointment of 13, and the abysmal reception to 14 1.0.
It won back trust in the whole brand because it was, and is, a fun game in its own right.

Zhanex: Are you beeing naive now? Would you truly be playing this game today if it was called something else? I doubt that

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Originally Posted by FizzleofHyperion

Zhanex: Are you beeing naive now? Would you truly be playing this game today if it was called something else? I doubt that

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Of course I would be. Name recognition may get someone to START something, but it won't keep them at it if they don't find it enjoyable.
And I've been playing this game nigh daily since launch for exactly that reason. I find it enjoyable.

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Originally Posted by FizzleofHyperion

Pretty much like I told you Reynhart. If this game was called something else other than Final Fantasy it would not have been as successful. The name is keeping people here more than the actual game.

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I don't know if that's really accurate. I don't play XIV anymore (waiting to see if 4.0 holds my interest over Legion when it comes out), but I still think I'm gonna buy a PS4 so I can play FFXV.

I'm a huge Final Fantasy fan, but I've never had any interest in their online offerings until a friend wouldn't shut up about FFXIV during the closed beta. There were 3-4 people in my old XIV raid static that had never played an offline Final Fantasy, conversely enough. I think word of mouth is equally as effective at snaring new players as brand recognition is.

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Originally Posted by Elkanah

Yeah, if you were in a Dynamis shell and getting the currency for the leader of the LS, that wasn't happening. Outside of that, it cost an average of 60MIL+ to buy all the currency, not too mention waiting JP midnight and runs of Dynamis. You must not have had a relic weapon in FFXI if you think it was 'easy' to get. It wasn't.

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Nothing you said is actually "difficult", it's just extremely long. Yes, I didn't do any relic, but I did far enough Dynamis with my HLS to help several members create theirs.

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Originally Posted by FizzleofHyperion

The name is keeping people here more than the actual game.

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I don't think so. XIV is a good case of "came for the name, stayed for the game".

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Originally Posted by FizzleofHyperion

Zhanex: Are you beeing naive now? Would you truly be playing this game today if it was called something else? I doubt that

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I've always disliked the Final Fantasy series, for the record. I tried this one because I love online games and graphics looked nice, definitely not because of its name. Now FFXIV is my favourite game ever, but I still wouldn't touch any other FF with a stick (neither would my best friend, who is also obsessed with this game). So yes, this game IS fun in its own right.

Edit: I must admit, however, that I do love the character designs from FF games. I simply don't care about the games themselves, not even playing XV.

I feel like 4.0 is going to be make or break XIV's future in regards to long-term players. What really worries me is that they plan on making all jobs even easier than they currently are. Toning things down and making the game more streamlined is fine and will be a great addition, but if all they do is reduce all jobs down to a very small and simple set of skills with no strategy or thought required I can't say I'll be able to enjoy the game at all. Especially since most accessible (non-static requiring) content is already incredibly easy (3.4 expert dungeons are a perfect example).

Content can be easy and fun, but personally I feel like they're struggling to have both these things. I think this could have a bad effect on longer-term players as there's only so many times one can run super-easy content before it becomes extremely boring. This won't really affect newer players who haven't been exposed to this kind of content though. I try not to think it because I'm sure it's not true, but sometimes I don't think they care about long-term players at all.

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Originally Posted by Reynhart

Nothing you said is actually "difficult", it's just extremely long. Yes, I didn't do any relic, but I did far enough Dynamis with my HLS to several members create theirs.

I don't think so. XIV is a good case of "came for the name, stayed for the game".

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The only reason you joined an HNMLS was to get gil for hunt drops and loot for your main job for endgame. You joined a Dynamis LS to help the leader fund their relic weapon, which most dropped or quit the LS after they got what they wanted. But during those times you got sea and sky drops along with dynamis drops. The endgame goal of the relics were a pain to obtain. It took me 5 years before I finally got Kikoku on my Nin and I was happy about it, but I was equally insane or also irritated by how long it took since I farmed it myself, since you dont see any of that relic coin drops when you do dynamis in a DynaLS. Was it worth it? Yeah. If I thought about it now? No. lol.

The currency wasnt the issue. Getting the drops for the R/E supplies was the issue. The drop rate was a 5% on mobs that nobody wanted to do. Along with having to use the WS 100+ times in events, which the avg ws for certain jobs was dependent on what class you were on or what you were doing. Getting a Mandau was a pain because most THFs sack pulled instead of being able to really WS until after the clear. Which only gave you 30min or so after you were done. You waited til Full Moon or hoped the drop would come, which FM wasn't for 3+ days irl time and ingame. So you'd hope it'd land on FM on the night you went in or you were praying for drops.

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Originally Posted by Connor

content is already incredibly easy (3.4 expert dungeons are a perfect example).

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I was fairly disappointed that the HM dungeons we got this time around along with Alexander and Sophie (non ex) weren't challenging and cleared on day 1 without any issues. Maybe it's that we have a good FC team going into the content, but still, I was expecting a lot for new content, only to be disappointed with how incredibly easy everything was.

You guys expect to have a dungeon that cannot be cleared on 1 day?
....seriously ....guys, for your way of talk it seems this is not the right game for you lol

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Originally Posted by Frederick22

You guys expect to have a dungeon that cannot be cleared on 1 day?
....seriously ....guys, for your way of talk it seems this is not the right game for you lol

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No, it's not that. I't just that dungeons like AK pre-patch or even dungeons like Pharos Sirius HM pre patch weren't that difficult but still somewhat of a challenge for some players. I'm not asking for the regular dungeon grind to be incredibly difficult with EX or Savage in mind, but a little more challenging than Snow Cloak.

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Originally Posted by Elkanah

Getting the drops for the R/E supplies was the issue. The drop rate was a 5% on mobs that nobody wanted to do.

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...which is still not difficult, just random. You don't need skill, knowledge, gear or preparation to obtain a drop, you just need...to be lucky. That's no difficulty.

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Originally Posted by Elkanah

I'm not asking for the regular dungeon grind to be incredibly difficult with EX or Savage in mind, but a little more challenging than Snow Cloak.

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The difficulty of the "Expert Roulette" dungeons should increase with each patch. It only makes sense. By the time a player can unlock them, they've already run a lot of lvl 60 content and dungeons, and know their rotations on at least their main job. Giving us two face roll dungeons that almost anyone can clear on their first run on day one feels not just insulting, but like a rip off.

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Originally Posted by Frederick22

You guys expect to have a dungeon that cannot be cleared on 1 day?
....seriously ....guys, for your way of talk it seems this is not the right game for you lol

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I'd appreciate it if you read my posts before passing judgement on them.
As aforementioned, dungeons can be both easy and fun. As I also mentioned, in my opinion the 3.4 dungeons are easy but not fun, and some others seem to feel the same way. There are a lot of examples in the game of content that is both, the final floors of Alexander (normal) are a perfect example. They have fun and engaging mechanics, whilst still being accessible to all types of players (whether frequent raiders or those who simply enjoy the story).

If you're going to comment on other people's responses then please elaborate on your stance. Why do you believe content such as expert dungeons cannot be both fun and easy? Why do you believe people who find the 3.4 dungeons too easy are playing the wrong game? Coming to a generalized conclusion before stating your reasoning contributes nothing to the debate at hand.

Dungeons in any game dating way back to the SNES have never been difficult or challenging, little more than glorified loot piñatas to beat on. Expecting a dungeon to be difficult in this day and age is giggleworthy. On that note, 'fun' is a very subjective term. What you consider 'fun' someone else won't, and what someone else finds 'fun' you won't, so there's not much point in discussing it.

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Originally Posted by Thunda_Cat_SMASH

I like turtles...On that note, 'fun' is a very subjective term. What you consider 'fun' someone else won't, and what someone else finds 'fun' you won't, so there's not much point in discussing it.

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Guess you should tell Yoshi-P he's been doing it wrong since ARR :rolleyes:
See that, I just had fun!

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Originally Posted by Thunda_Cat_SMASH

Dungeons in any game dating way back to the SNES have never been difficult or challenging, little more than glorified loot piñatas to beat on. Expecting a dungeon to be difficult in this day and age is giggleworthy. On that note, 'fun' is a very subjective term. What you consider 'fun' someone else won't, and what someone else finds 'fun' you won't, so there's not much point in discussing it.

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I'm not sure if this in reference to my posts, but as I mentioned I don't think content such as expert dungeons should be 'difficult'. What I personally feel is that the most recent dungeons are easy but not fun. The enemies pose little threat to most parties, there isn't much interaction with enemies or mechanics within them and many of the mechanics during boss fights can be ignored with little repercussions.

By no means do I want the dungeons to have things like instant-death if you stand if an AoE, but I feel like they've been toned down a little too much this cycle. And naturally this is a subjective opinion, but the entire point of a debate is to consider a variety of opinions and open up a dialogue about these differing opinions. If we follow the logic that there's no point in discussing things we're going to disagree with others on, the entirety of the forums would be empty because as far as I'm aware the forums are supposed to be used by developers to consider what people want from the game, and describing what we feel is 'fun' and what is isn't is one of the ways they can do this. Ultimately what's most important is that we all consider and respect each other's opinions and beliefs, even if they conflict with our own

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Originally Posted by Thunda_Cat_SMASH

Dungeons in any game dating way back to the SNES have never been difficult or challenging, little more than glorified loot piñatas to beat on. Expecting a dungeon to be difficult in this day and age is giggleworthy. On that note, 'fun' is a very subjective term. What you consider 'fun' someone else won't, and what someone else finds 'fun' you won't, so there's not much point in discussing it.

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I won't disagree with your second part, but I think there are tons of games with fairly difficult, challenging dungeons that still don't edge virtually everyone but those on the bleeding edge of progression out of content. Wildstar, mythics/mythic+ in WoW, TERA, Blade and Soul...actually, now that I think on it, pretty much every other game I've played moderately seriously EXCEPT this one.

I don't mind if your argument is that dungeons in XIV are a crucial vehicle towards making sure that people who aren't very skilled can remain relevant...fair enough. But to imply that other games just let you cruise control through content quite like XIV does is an erroneous assumption, IMO.

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Originally Posted by loreleidiangelo

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I'll take your word for it. I've played few mmos due to hating how rng and grind filled they are, as well as how lackluster the story has to be due to the medium. However, I've never I've heard of any game that had dungeons as the epitome of the end game. Usually those are raids, not dungeons, but again, I'll take your word for it, seeing as I'm speaking from the perspective of a predominantly offline gamer.

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Originally Posted by loreleidiangelo

I won't disagree with your second part, but I think there are tons of games with fairly difficult, challenging dungeons that still don't edge virtually everyone but those on the bleeding edge of progression out of content. Wildstar, mythics/mythic+ in WoW, TERA, Blade and Soul...actually, now that I think on it, pretty much every other game I've played moderately seriously EXCEPT this one.

I don't mind if your argument is that dungeons in XIV are a crucial vehicle towards making sure that people who aren't very skilled can remain relevant...fair enough. But to imply that other games just let you cruise control through content quite like XIV does is an erroneous assumption, IMO.

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The key distinguishing characteristics of FF14 from those games are (1) SE doesn't want to compete with the F2P games for the hardcore gamers because SE can't monetize them, and (2) there's no real PvP in FF14 to speak of. Why is this important? Because the hardcore gamers/PvPers have a much much higher difficulty tolerance (in large part because they have much more time they can devote to a game) than the audience SE is trying to capture, i.e. "casual" players. On point (1), you monetize hardcore players by a cash shop with material benefits and those hardcore players will spend a lot of real money for in-game advantages in those F2P games. Here, SE on a sub model simply can't extract the same revenue from that otherwise very small percentage of gamers.

On point (2), WoW can afford to institute that higher difficulty in part because they have developed a well-defined PvP structure that's essentially separate from the PvE element. Why is this important? Because people who don't want to raid/not good at PvE but still want to be competitive can turn out their angst in PvP. Hence, because WoW can cater to so many people, they can afford to institute hardcore elements without significant risk of alienating a large portion of their game pop. Here, looking at the composition of FF14's player base, SE simply doesn't have that same mix or enough people with "high pain tolerance," hence the huge risk of terminally damaging the bottom line if they keep trying to appeal to hardcore players.

Bluntly, SE appears to have made the business decision to keep appealing to "casual" people over any other segment. Why? Do the math: getting 5 new people to subscribe for 1 month because they are attracted by this game's low barrier to entry, relatively lower difficulty, etc. is worth a lot more than having 1 hardcore player subscribe for 4 months (5 X 15 > 4 X 15). And SE and Yosh-P, rightly IMO, believe that in a game without any meaningful PvP it is practically impossible to capture a hardcore player's attention for a sufficient amount of time even if you did try to appeal to them because they just burn through any content faster than a regular person (I think someone complaining about new raid difficulty mentioned they played at least 5 hours a day).

For example, certain players in Archeage regularly spent at least $10,000.00 in the cash shop. Assuming a subscription rate in FF14 of $15 a month (higher than the actual), that's 667 sub months to match one hardcore whale in Archeage. You can start seeing why SE is forced to cast a wide a net as possible to match that revenue.

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Originally Posted by Bahd_Monkey

The difficulty of the "Expert Roulette" dungeons should increase with each patch. It only makes sense. By the time a player can unlock them, they've already run a lot of lvl 60 content and dungeons, and know their rotations on at least their main job. Giving us two face roll dungeons that almost anyone can clear on their first run on day one feels not just insulting, but like a rip off.

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I just want more adds to increase or make things harder like AK did lol.

Remember old AK? That demon wall kept moving til the end and you needed to dps the living out of the bees and the boss to pass or be spotted in poison and die. That was fun lol. And challenging. But it wasn't difficult if you knew what you were doing, but it was still fun! lol

Demon Wall was only difficult because at the time, everyone was barely at the minimum ilvl.

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Originally Posted by Elkanah

I just want more adds to increase or make things harder like AK did lol.

Remember old AK? That demon wall kept moving til the end and you needed to dps the living out of the bees and the boss to pass or be spotted in poison and die. That was fun lol. And challenging. But it wasn't difficult if you knew what you were doing, but it was still fun! lol

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lb left bee! that was a nightmare to tank because of all the movement/repel/aoe stuns from the bees, yeah about a 50 50 clear rate with df pugs i remember lol

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Originally Posted by ADVSS

lb left bee! that was a nightmare to tank because of all the movement/repel/aoe stuns from the bees, yeah about a 50 50 clear rate with df pugs i remember lol

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That was the first time I found healing learning difficult, with shitty gear cause you're working on the level 50 set. I remember being so proud of having Darklight.

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Originally Posted by Chiramu

That was the first time I found healing learning difficult, with shitty gear cause you're working on the level 50 set. I remember being so proud of having Darklight.

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aw yeah cause we were missing i80 till ct came in the odd patch, gear was very akward back then lol. and poor healers using medica 2 right before the bees spawned lmao

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Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

Demon Wall was only difficult because at the time, everyone was barely at the minimum ilvl.

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There was also a lot of not so bright individuals even after that time period of getting geared up.

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Originally Posted by ADVSS

lb left bee! that was a nightmare to tank because of all the movement/repel/aoe stuns from the bees, yeah about a 50 50 clear rate with df pugs i remember lol

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But it was worth it! I loved that about it! It wasnt hard or challenging, but somewhat can be stressful given the circumstance made it worth fighting in.

Tell you what, the day we get Aurum Vale HM I'll be happy. It'll be a day to hate but at the same time know it'll be challenging and stressful xD

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Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

Demon Wall was only difficult because at the time, everyone was barely at the minimum ilvl.

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Haha, was hysterical we have to LB the bee's. xD!
I mean...I hated that damn dungeon but it felt good to clear it FINALLY way back then.
I miss those days where it actually felt good to beat something...wish these 4man
dungeons were hard...These new two are the easiest ones of HW....

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Originally Posted by Mugiawara

Haha, was hysterical we have to LB the bee's. xD!
I mean...I hated that damn dungeon but it felt good to clear it FINALLY way back then.
I miss those days where it actually felt good to beat something...wish these 4man
dungeons were hard...These new two are the easiest ones of HW....

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Every dungeon should be made so our actual item level was somewhat close to it. Today i rolled in all i250 into Xelphatol, the numbers i was pulling off were absolutely insane, and there is still 20 item levels to get more. This diference is just way too much.

In 3 more months, i can totally see people doing Xelphatol or Gubal in less than 13 minutes.

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Originally Posted by Elkanah

There was also a lot of not so bright individuals even after that time period of getting geared up.

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And still is the case to this very day.

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Originally Posted by Mugiawara

Haha, was hysterical we have to LB the bee's. xD!
I mean...I hated that damn dungeon but it felt good to clear it FINALLY way back then.
I miss those days where it actually felt good to beat something...wish these 4man
dungeons were hard...These new two are the easiest ones of HW....

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Only way these dungeons are going to get harder is if they are tuned up to match the latest gear of the previous patch, but then they'd have to drop rewards that would match the difficulty.

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Originally Posted by Alexander_Dragonfang

Every dungeon should be made so our actual item level was somewhat close to it. Today i rolled in all i250 into Xelphatol, the numbers i was pulling off were absolutely insane, and there is still 20 item levels to get more. This diference is just way too much.

In 3 more months, i can totally see people doing Xelphatol or Gubal in less than 13 minutes.

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That would mean an even larger gap for former subscribers thinking of coming back to the game. If you haven't raided cause it doesn't interest you you will not have ilvl250, I didn't bother gearing my main last content patch and I was under the ilvl for these two dungeons. Can't be bothered doing them because of that. Less incentive for people to come back if they cater to people like you.

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Originally Posted by Chiramu

Less incentive for people to come back if they cater to people like you.

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But this way it just give more incentive for people like me to leave the game.
It is called end game dungeons and expert roulette for a reason, people should DEFENITLY have to gear up for them if they were absent the last patches.

People had to gear up for the first level 50 dungeons, people had to care when playing things like Pharos Sirius before the patch, they cried, things got nerfed, the ilvl gaps were made a joke and now, instead of actual high end dungeons we have roflstomp sessions of not caring at all about what people is doing, and in fact, that makes players even worse, seeing blizzard spaming BLM at level 60 4 patches into an expansion is nearly disgusting, and even if the devs can't actually give some players a functional brain for them to care about how they play, they can make content to go progresively harder as they level up.

Way too much cattering to the new players, you have 50 levels of content which are basically a tutorial, which btw, along the slow pace combat, has the most common and consistent bad point this game has in most reviews (combat sucks and dungeons are too basic), and now, the same is happening to the END GAME content. So, the only, not acceptable excuse, but the only one of "content is like that so later end game becomes more challenger" is gone, dungeon wise, everything feels like a tutorial for anyone with a functional brain and the ability to use maybe 10 of their skills.

Like those DRG spamming RoT against 3 enemies cause that is supposed to be a crowd and AoE damage is needed...

Why would we have to care about returning players in the first place? The game should care about being interesting and challenging enough so players don't leave in the first place! Ah! oh right, the lead director thinks is ok for players to away if the patch becomes too boring, thats why is ok for content to be bland and uninteresting and then is ok to catter to returning players, because content isn't made to be interesting in the first place.

Is a design problem, as everything with this game, the dev team should have the same consistency they had with Mhach, not nerfing it, they did great, they forced players to actually care about it. That should repeat, all across the board. The day they nerfed Sirius, a very bad trend started, one that has to stop, end game is called end game for a reason, if you are not ready and can't put up with it, you go back to lower levels, you gear up, and you care about your character development and performance. If you don't have the time for that, well, end game is not for you.

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Originally Posted by Chiramu

That would mean an even larger gap for former subscribers thinking of coming back to the game. If you haven't raided cause it doesn't interest you you will not have ilvl250, I didn't bother gearing my main last content patch and I was under the ilvl for these two dungeons. Can't be bothered doing them because of that. Less incentive for people to come back if they cater to people like you.

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The minimum ilvl for the current dungeons are i210, I'm not sure how a returning active subscriber could be under unless you haven't actively played for 2-3 content patches. In that case, they could just run Midas until they're i220 relatively easily or buy crafting gear if have enough gil.

Regardless, dungeons don't need arbitrary gear or DPS requirements as that would be hell in DF, but mechanics to keep you on your toes. At launch we got amazing dungeons such as the Vault, but we've got nothing like it since.

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Originally Posted by Alexander_Dragonfang

But this way it just give more incentive for people like me to leave the game.
It is called end game dungeons and expert roulette for a reason, people should DEFENITLY have to gear up for them if they were absent the last patches.

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4 man dungeons aren't really high end raiding content though. The problem lies in raids not being satisfying for players in your position.

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The minimum ilvl for the current dungeons are i210, I'm not sure how a returning active subscriber could be under unless you haven't actively played for 2-3 content patches. In that case, they could just run Midas until they're i220 relatively easily or buy crafting gear if have enough gil.

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I spent 5 million gear on that 250 gear and i was 4 ilvl over the expert dungeon level restriction. I didn't complete my mains' set last content patch because it was tedious. If you are more than one content patch out you have to grind the level 60 roulette before even attempting the current content. Not very good incentive.
I had this problem happen to me this patch, you obviously have never left during a patch or you've left after you geared yourself up. Why are you telling me what I should be on when I logged on and I couldn't do it?

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Originally Posted by Chiramu

4 man dungeons aren't really high end raiding content though. The problem lies in raids not being satisfying for players in your position.

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We are not talking about raids, we are talking about End Game content, that is, content after level cap, current is, level 60. End game dungeons are end game content and end game content should be made arround so players actually have to care about they are playing.

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Originally Posted by Colorful

Regardless, dungeons don't need arbitrary gear or DPS requirements as that would be hell in DF, but mechanics to keep you on your toes. At launch we got amazing dungeons such as the Vault, but we've got nothing like it since.

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Exactly, maybe some basic DPS checks or a bit more complex mechanics, but nothing comparable to 24 or 8 man raids, yet the fact that BLMs can make it through by just spamming blizzard or WHM can heal all with only medica speaks terrible about content design. Vault is a good example of a generally good dungeon. Amdapor and Pharos Sirius at the begining were just perfect. That has to come back.

I shouldn't be able to Impulse Drive spam and meet the DPS checks in dungeons. This isn't level 20 tutorial content, is high end content. Content should be made for players expected to know their rotations, be moderately well geared and in general knowing their classes.

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Originally Posted by Chiramu

I spent 5 million gear on that 250 gear and i was 4 ilvl over the expert dungeon level restriction. I didn't complete my mains' set last content patch because it was tedious. If you are more than one content patch out you have to grind the level 60 roulette before even attempting the current content. Not very good incentive.
I had this problem happen to me this patch, you obviously have never left during a patch or you've left after you geared yourself up. Why are you telling me what I should be on when I logged on and I couldn't do it?

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I didn't so much as "leave" last patch, but I rarely logged on and only to do weekly raids for materia to sell and the upgrade items. At the start of this patch I was i219 with Midian accessories including the belt but with 6 pieces at i240 including my weapon, that's one month and two weeks of doing raids weekly once and a bit of tome farming all the way back to 3.2... I bought an i220 ring to upgrade my i210 ring to meet the requirements for Alexander and earned lore while doing Alexander and the newest dungeons to boost my ilvl further and am now i233, sure I wasn't under geared even when "coming back", but it goes to show how easy gearing up is.


Sorry, but content shouldn't be tuned for those who play for a month or less per patch. Put some effort into gearing up, it sounds like you want the game to appeal to those who log on and do the new content once and don't play again. The only incentive to running dungeons is the tomestones which these players are seemingly not interested in, the people running them day in and day out are those who play constantly and the content should be engaging for those said players. The minimum ilvl for Midas is i200 so I'm not sure why you couldn't do that either.