Additions for Deep Dungeons?

How about a reaper monster in the dungeon e.g. Persona 3, Wanderer's Palace.
The standard mechanic is if you spend too long in a single floor of the dungeon then a slowish invincible monster spawns who will pursue you with the intent of slaughtering you all.

Possible candidates: Tonberry, Mind Flayer, Lich, Jumbo Hecteye?, Ferdiad?, Allagan Spider Robot? Stilvas? Midgard Serpert?

What would everyone like to see added or adjusted within Deep Dungeons content?

Elidibs/Serpentarius. Absolute must have in my opinion.

Oh god this would be amazing. Also given the lure trap Id like to see helpful traps that just spawn chests, because that throws in additional turmoil. Do you take the chest? Or not?

Also, floor levels. Like a ramp that leads to one room, with a small jump to get back down on the other side. Effectually giving you a one way path.

I want a floor where you have to fight your own dark doppelganger.
Lure it to traps for extra damage.

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Originally Posted by Caitlyn

I want a floor where you have to fight your own dark doppelganger.
Lure it to traps for extra damage.

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"I'd better send you with three of your friends just to be safe. Besides, nobody likes to fight against himself".

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Epitaph

I want more floors! MORE FLOORS PLZ
Dungeons are nice, but they get tiring after a while. This is the first battle class content I have liked aside from the 24 mans. The random aspect of the progression is really fun. Please for the love of god some developer hear my request!

This new system is great because you can really just go wild with ideas. You can invent broken systems and mechanics that would not work in the other parts of the game, like traps or transformation. They could add anything really, like new spells or switches, or hidden rooms...

What would like to see is that the silver chests on the earlier floor give EXP if they do not give aether. This would speed up the boring early bits and allow the player to get to the parts that are more fun and more rewarding. It sucks when you run a new dungeon and from 1-20 you don't get anything if you have 7/7 gear and it still takes just as long.

More silver chests.

Additionally, when you use the trap disable that should also include the exploding silver chests and turn them in to normal ones.

I want to see an option to queue for this in progress. I made my way through 1-40, in hopes that I could get some gear upgrades in the 41-50 section, and I got put in with a group halfway through the last boss. 4 hours, no upgrades.

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Originally Posted by pfnurphl

I want to see an option to queue for this in progress. I made my way through 1-40, in hopes that I could get some gear upgrades in the 41-50 section, and I got put in with a group halfway through the last boss. 4 hours, no upgrades.

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there already is. if you have activate the "in progress" option in the duty finder menu it will also queue you in progress into the deep dungeon (but the deep dungeon itself is not accessible in the duty finder menu). so when you don't want to join in progress you have to deactivate it in your duty finder menu.

Another thought I wanted to add, if the silver chests are going to stay as rare as they are, then the chance for them to fail (when your level is high enough) should be gone. They should either be rare and always successful or more common with RNG.

Id like to see more incentives, a weapon, a couple minions, a mount, and materia is alright, we can grind everything else for the same things. Its really close to being in the right spot. It is fun to run, id give it that but not much to run it more than a few times.

Id like to see much more...
1. Unlocking the next floor, have it locked behind an more actual objectives rather then kill a certain amount of mobs
2. Armor Incentives. Even copy and paste dungeon gear to be able to be purchased by tokens for glamour or for the stats for leveling. Or even obtainable through boss fights.

Firstly, PotD is pretty fun as content, but it is also pretty bare bones. It needs some definite TLC, but thats why this thread exsists, lets talk about some additions. :D

1. Puzzles
   - Just like the title says, Puzzle Floors! Some of you may know of Final Fantasy 11's Nyzul Isle, which this content reminds me of. One of its many fun and annoying concepts was the puzzle floors. They consisted of lamps, and there were different ways to deal with them. they would consist of 1-4 clickable lamps, and you either had to find the right one to click, or maybe click them in a certain order to progress the floor.
   
   
2. Different Ways to Progress
   - As I ended the puzzles section with, we should have different ways to progress floors, and give players the choice if they want to stay or go for various reasons. Its nice to have a certain number of enemies be the key, but we could also make the exit locked by certain monster picked at random on the floor, or maybe even make us clear the floor to completion, or explore rooms to find the key. More ways to progress keeps it fresh and can add difficulty and depth to the content.
   
   
3. More Traps!!
   - More Traps!! We've already got a nice assortment of traps, but we can take it a step farther with more traps. What about Mini-boss trap with hp like a hunts, and maybe some minor mechanics. More status effects! Paralyzing traps can be really annoying coupled with various encounters if you misstep. 1-way trap doors could be a nice touch as well, where a player or the party gets stuck in a room with spawning enemies and has to clear them all, or a party member on the outside has to click a lever or button device to let the party member/s out.
   
   
4. Intresting Bosses
   - This is the part where I felt this content really lacked. I've done my fair share of content in this game, and experienced just about everything there is, but the "Bosses" we were given are barely bosses. I realise they are based on the current floor progression and level of characters, but they barely have any mechanics that are even remotely scary. Floor 50's boss was a nice change of pace, as it was unique, but that was all it really had going for it. The mechanics were very easy and the fight was overall lackluster. This is my biggest complaint and would like to see these fights memorable, instead of "Oh look its babies first hydra".
   
   
5. More Pomanders!
   - More pomander please! We already have quite a few different ones, but there are some that I REALLY wish we had. Single member or party wide full esuna, clearing all status effects. Single member or party wide Re-raise effect in case of random wipes. Changing traps pomander. This could make all the traps on a floor do beneficial effects or spawn chests, and this one could work well with the sight pomander so you could actually run around a floor hitting traps for buffs and chests. Just a few suggestions.
   
   
6. Bigger Floors
   Bigger floors means less time to dilly dally around. This is important because now the clock is against you. Do you make the choice of clearing a floor looking for chests, or do you try to find the exit and progress through quickly? This makes various pomanders much more useful and purposeful like sight, so you can see chests, and affluence and fortune to boost the drop chances could mean you could clear a floor out for potential chests and loot.

These are some suggestions I have to try to make this more fun for all, and much more interesting. If you like any of my suggestions, give me a like so maybe we can get some community rep support to pass these ideas to the devs. :)

1. More boss variety
   Not just different boss models and attacks, but more ways that they need to be beaten. Like bosses, unable to be attacked directly, that summon waves of minions. Or floors you have to navigate before the boss can. Think outside the box.
2. Specialised rooms
   Such as locked treasure rooms; status-cleansing temples; rooms that allow you to buff/debuff for a price; or rooms that seal you inside until you kill the mobs inside. Of course, always with a risk for every reward.
3. Crafting/Gathering
   Not that PotD needs to allow crafters/gatherers inside! Hell no. But currently only Alchemists and Culinarians can make items that have an effect inside the dungeon, with potions/ethers/debuff cleansers and food. I'll admit to not knowing what, exactly, other classes could make that's relevant...
4. Custom difficulty/reward settings
   Such as making enemies ungodly hard in exchange for better rewards/chance to upgrade aetherpool stats; or the reverse. Or just more difficult for the hell of it.

On a side note, I love the idea of PotD because it'd be the perfect testing ground for different dungeon setups/mechanics.

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Originally Posted by Alaltus

Possible candidates: Tonberry, Mind Flayer, Lich, Jumbo Hecteye?, Ferdiad?, Allagan Spider Robot? Stilvas? Midgard Serpert?

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Tonberry is unlikely given how far away we are form Nym. Ferdiad is offed after Mhach (and I'm sure that Voidsent don't get revivals for this place), This seems to have nothing to do with Allag and to be far away from any ruins and Midgard Serpent is Midgarsomnr who is already in the game.

I would like to see something like Persona's reaper in PoTD though.