I hope this is the last patch with more i60 dungeons.

[BlueMage]

If i90 is going to be "The new darklight" as so many people are claiming then I want to see 4 man content that reflects that, no more Hard Mode Dungeons that are just 50 Shades of Amdapor Keep gear.

But people were complaining Pharos Sirius was "too hard" and these new dungeons are supposed to be harder than that.

[Felis]

But people were complaining Pharos Sirius was "too hard" and these new dungeons are supposed to be harder than that.

Harder than new Sirius, not than old Sirius.
For the hard mode dungeons, they want them to be at the same difficulty levels. They decided that the difficulty level from Haukke Manor HM fit it the best.

[SpookyGhost]

Harder than new Sirius, not than old Sirius.
For the hard mode dungeons, they want them to be at the same difficulty levels. They decided that the difficulty level from Haukke Manor HM fit it the best.

tbh New Sirius isn't going to be any less "difficult" it just increases your ability to roll through the first boss rather than actually dealing with the mechanics. I imagine the new dungeons will be on-par with PS, however, they probably won't have as many HP % based mechanics since apparently no one can turn their brain on for 5s in a 4m dungeon and only want to DPS the boss until it's dead.

[Sygmaelle]

Harder than new Sirius, not than old Sirius.
For the hard mode dungeons, they want them to be at the same difficulty levels. They decided that the difficulty level from Haukke Manor HM fit it the best.

Nope, harder than old Sirius. Which was already stupid easy

[Felis]

Nope, harder than old Sirius. Which was already stupid easy

GW: You mention that Sirius was too hard, but for new dungeons that are planned for release in every patch, like this Sirius and hard dungeons, how is the difficulty set when making these?

Y: We think of these as place where you can farm.

GW: So it’s somewhere you can go once a day without worrying too much?

Y: For example if there are drop items, there is gil, and if it’s for second character, you can use the gear drops from there, also it’s one of the options for collecting Allagan Tomestones so it’s set up to be used with the Duty Finder. You can match through Duty Finder and as long as you know, understand the strategy you can run through them without much trouble, at start it’ll take about 40 minutes but once you get used to it you can run through them in about 20-25 minutes, we have it set so it takes about an average of 30 minutes.

So when you go with that, the boss difficulty for Sirius was too hard. The hard part was that the healers needed to constantly keep everyone HP topped off or they will get charmed and couldn’t control, it was hard to tell it as well. Then you got the trash mobs and the boss charging through at the same time, all of this coming at the same timing so for that one it brought out the bad personality for the person who was in charge of that dungeon (laugh). For that place if you take away the amount of waves, and lower the hit points on the trash mobs, and take away where it stacks, it should get much easier.

For Sirius’s boss, you had to clear every step to clear the boss, and there wasn’t much freedom. When you compare that to the amount of tomestones you can obtain, and amount of time it needed for clear, it was too much, the logic is there and it’s good, but there was a mis-match between the dungeons goal and difficulty.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1911521