With 3 months of uncapped Coil/Poetics, could we get a Challenge Mode

With almost three months between DF Final Coil and uncapped poetics, I'd really like to see something that both refreshes old content for our entertainment and simultaneously allows players coming in before the expansion to experience fights as they were, by means of a challenge mode that reverts our ilvl back to the minimum ilvl required to enter the fight (offset by Echo), or just above that (where one can then take Echo off, in addition, for the true original fight difficulty).

tldr; I want the option to experience T1-9, Pharos Sirius, etc. in their original difficulty again, and think that can be most easily granted by a simple ilvl sync.

Edit: Sorry, poetics becoming uncapped may be a poor assumption on my part. I was basing this off how Soldiery became uncapped at the same time as ST and SCoB, rather than on a new currency type coming out, which seemed to me the more appropriate basis given that no additional gear/currency tier will be arriving until the expansion.

Or you can just wear an appropriate gear to enjoy the original challenge ?

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Originally Posted by cgbspender

Or you can just wear an appropriate gear to enjoy the original challenge ?

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Indeed; I would just need to farm that Darklight and Myth gear and the loot dropped from the prior turns themselves... I already do this from the time to time, dropping my ilvl to about what it was when helping with old content (usually via my PvP gear for BiS after its ilvl sync). What I'm asking for is an easier means than collecting 12 pieces of otherwise worthless gear, potentially hours of work, to return this difficulty, especially when the same is already done, to a lesser extent, for all but expert roulette dungeons. One mechanic, already in place, applied at varying levels given already set ilvl entry requirements -- done.

whats your source for poe being uncapped?

I dont see poetics being uncapped. Only time that happens is when they add a new token

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Originally Posted by Lemuel81

I dont see poetics being uncapped. Only time that happens is when they add a new token

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it would make sense to uncap poe, theyre adding the ironworks weapon tome to wod and removing wod's loot lockout in 2.55

I wish they had brought us that tome ahead of removing the lock-out, which was the case with ST. Made it easier to get, since you wouldn't necessarily be rolling against 7 other people every time.

Edit- DERP my comment made no sense. I misread what someone else wrote and thought they were talking about new tomestone being added in WoD. And while I do wish we were getting that added before the lockout goes away that has nothing to do with this thread.

So they uncap poe and we 130 all our classes and then do......what exactly? I know some of us will spam fcob but this isn't an option for everyone. And poetics are still part of bis, both acc required and non-acc required. We all supposed to go out and farm magitek fishing rods or what? They won't uncap poetics leaving over 2 month + abyss to expansion.

I see I90 T5 parties pop up in PF from time to time. It's definitely something that can be arranged with a little work.

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Originally Posted by cgbspender

Or you can just wear an appropriate gear to enjoy the original challenge ?

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#SMH lol these guys right? #theobviousbutthanks

A certain successful western MMO involving Orcs and Humans and Elves and Goblins that launched in 2004, and had an expansion about something that rhymes with Witch Ding did Challenge Mode dungeons.
They were awesome.
Please Challenge Mode. Please. Please. Please.

Something like this would be amazing. There's little challenge in anything now outside of Coil and it's been that way for a while. I remember WP's Flan being a DPS check for fresh 50s, but with Keeper of the Lake having an iLvl requirement of 90 when everyone and their mom is already 110+ is just silly. Nothing is challenging about light party dungeons these days and chainpulling + AoEing down a third of a dungeon at a time is only fun for so long.

I suppose the major concern about implementing something like this would be "but who'd do it". Yeah, a lot of people probably would... for a couple weeks. Then they'd be all but abandoned.

That's not to say I don't want this. Hell yeah I want this; even the 4-man dungeons get way more interesting when parties barely meet the requirements and have to actually do the fights. But just a thought.

I don't understand why they didn't restrict the item levels to begin with, and such a drastic change from the base iL too. While it was possible to complete dungeons like Pharos Sirius or Copperbell (Hard) without the purchases from Rowena (at the time, Darklight gear) it wasn't easy. Most parties would struggle until the average iL was 60 or so. Hell I see people still getting wrecked while decked out in 110 gear just because of mechanics.

If I had a choice in the balance of the game, I would have capped the dungeons a lot lower, with stuff like Pharos Sirius, Copperbell (hard), and Haukke (hard) all being stuck at MAX i70. Also, would lower requirement for entry into the Hard Mode Primal fights cause some of those iLs are ridiculous.

Bumping this to mention that it appears, according to today's Live Letter, that there will be an option for this in Duty Finder when Heavensward hits!

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Apparently everyone else is against ilvl syncing, feeling like there's no point to getting better gear or using materia if your overall strength gets capped for the majority of duties. Then against most are probably speed runners.