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Hello All
I'm back in Sea of Clouds with an alt and it's same than usual: Although I'm 3 levels above foes around, with max equipment, I struggle fighting them. It's like they would be 3 or 4 levels above my own instead.
I see that only in Sea of Clouds, therefore my question: Is there a history behind this area, explaining why foes seem to be of a higher level than what they really are?
Heavensward areas had a noticable jump in field map enemy strength from ARR zones (because as I recall at the time players complained "ARR zones were too easy to get through"), which coincided with HW bringing flight into the game, so the idea was you wouldn't spend that long having to troop through zones before you unlocked flight... that was the theory anyway.
The Sea of Clouds is also something of an anomaly with the zones as it's made up of multiple levels of islands (altitude wise), and certain sections you initially visit, then the story takes you away from it only to return much later on, and then unlocks a new part of it further 'up' on the other side of the zone with stronger enemies accordingly (roughly in step with what SE presumed the player's level would be at that point in the story), and outlying areas or optional sections a bit higher than the then level cap of 60 (other zones like the Churning Mists and Coerthas Western Highlands did this too, but it was far less obvious).
Thank you, makes sense to me now. :)
When I went through Heavensward, 10 years ago, the enemies really hurt and would almost kill me. Even the last time I did Heavensward FATEs level synced, the enemies were almost obliterating me in Coerthas Western Highlands. It's unlike the scaling in any expansion that comes after. No idea why that is.