does anyone feel that the mysterious map is all a con and misleading players?!

[Donjo]

I can definitely see some DPS (or maybe even healers who are not buffed) having issues due to not-so-high HP and Paladin having issues due to its low damage meaning not enough time to complete the map.

I'd imagine that Scholars win the day here. They can just enjoy Cleric Stance fighting while their fairy does the healing. Dragoon and Monk will lose some of their damage due to hitting the enemies in the front. Paladins, however, are in no trouble whatsoever unless they decide that fighting in Shield Oath is a good idea. Switch to Sword Oath and their damage is sufficient. Throw on some Strength accessories too and they melt things almost as well as a melee DPS hitting just the front(450+ Strength is pretty fun as a Tank).

[blackcitadel9]

I main Summoner. I send Titan-egi out and use my Rank 7 healer Chocobo for heal support. I almost lost my first map, because I went in treating it like any other level 50 solo map (lesson learned, luckily without losing my first alexandrite). Beyond that I've not had issues yet. Just take the fights seriously, cycle CDs and rotations properly and for extra redundancy against bad luck, Take a buddy with you.
Specific advice for Summoners, Sustain and the odd Physick on your Titan-egi will improve your survivabilty by leaps and bounds. Sounds obvious, but the amount of Summoners who don't heal their pets is astounding.

[bloodSp3c]

i kinda enjoy these now, they're quite challenging. after my disastrous 1st attempt on my 1st map I go in fully prepared. i main a WHM and can solo these pretty easily with my choco tank

[RhazeCain]

I've liked the difficulty level of these. Could see some folks having a harder time of it - get a friend if you need to.

As i89 Warrior (i101 in tank gear, but I wear 5x i70 crafted jewelry for this), I've done 10 or 12 solo without dieing. Pure DPS chocobo. Most of em not that challenging. Closest call was the 4x small bombs. Sounds like you're supposed to kill them, but I only saw it once and didn't know that. Absorbed full 4x hits .. twice. Inner Beast, Bloodbath, etc in between and nearly dead after.

Morbol? Stun it to interrupt Bad Breath. Or that trick with having a lowbie mob agro'd to break your bind might work - sounds plausible, I haven't tried it. Or just eat the Bad Breath and kill it toe-to-toe is what I did the first time.

Bomb that gets bigger and hits you? .. A little tickle. Inner Beast a few times, Thrill of Battle, and end fight with 90+% health. Without running from it. I tried running away when it got big as well - seemed OK.

Haven't seen the cyclops "coincounter" one yet.

[PetiteMalFleur]

For the bomb that grows you just stop dps until it shrinks back down.

[Chihaya]

What's the deal with that one? Had it yesterday as Tank and saw it grows, grows and then is small again and it starts growing again. I stunned it on its way to get bigger but didn't notice any more dmg or something. Does this thingie explodes if it is not stunned or what is it about?

For the bomb that grows you just stop dps until it shrinks back down.

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[Raxiaz]

^ I don't get it lol.

[dspguy]

OP, you can solo it. Stun it on Bad Breath. It will always bind and then bad breath. I do most of the maps with someone else so there is 0% chance of failure. I will say that these maps are a lot harder than other solo maps.

[Bombast]

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^ I don't get it lol.

The person saying Bombast are OP is a little bit biased.

[TomTom1968]

Lately, a few more people in my FC are doing the Upgrade. It is finally fun to do the Expert roulette with a premade group and do the maps together afterwards. Yesterday one of us died from the Bombast attacks. MUAHAHAHA. Everybody knows it is reflecting damage when it is growing but everybody thinks "it's not much dmg coming in" and just continues to attack. As a tank this is completely true, as a DPS or healer....dunno. Might be worth to stop or reducing DPSing lol. I like the mysterious maps. They are fun to do and SE doesn't need to change anything about them imo.