Your thoughts on the direction of this game?

[Mcshiggs]

the numbers of the fights were decreased as a band-aid. It was put in line with the other two dungeons released at its scale, not "dumbed down".

So you are saying the didn't make the fights easier, they only decreased the difficulty, gotcha.

[Krr]

So you are saying the didn't make the fights easier, they only decreased the difficulty, gotcha.

You're doing a bad job of literacy right now if that's what you read.

I'm saying the complexity of the fights remained and that your nomenclature of "dumbing down" is inapplicable to the situation, because it was a numerical retuning to match what was in other content in the game that was challenging at its intended item level.

[Mcshiggs]

You're doing a bad job of literacy right now if that's what you read.

I'm saying the complexity of the fights remained and that your nomenclature of "dumbing down" is inapplicable to the situation, because it was a numerical retuning to match what was in other content in the game that was challenging at its intended item level.

When you reduce the numbers, you can trivialize the moves, I see now many tanks not stunning Giga blast, because it is easy to just heal through, not killing adds on the bird fight, because the boss dies faster, and the adds don't do as much damage so they can just be ignored now until the boss flies up. I know the mechanics are technically the same, but when you lower the damage of those attacks, many become less important to deal with the "proper" way so in my eyes that is dumbing them down, because even though they are still there, they can be ignored now.

[Krr]

When you reduce the numbers, you can trivialize the moves, I see now many tanks not stunning Giga blast, because it is easy to just heal through, not killing adds on the bird fight, because the boss dies faster, and the adds don't do as much damage so they can just be ignored now until the boss flies up. I know the mechanics are technically the same, but when you lower the damage of those attacks, many become less important to deal with the "proper" way so in my eyes that is dumbing them down, because even though they are still there, they can be ignored now.

The item level requirement for Pharos Sirius is something like 48. It drops item level 60? Gear. Players who ignore Giga Blast and Zu's adds are doing this because they are item level 80-90+ and vastly exceed what is needed for the dungeon.

Just because high item level players can ignore the mechanics doesn't mean the dungeon was designed or re-tuned with ignoring the mechanics in mind. It was meant for low item level players.