What dungeon has enough lore to give it the Black Rock Depths treatment?

[Tupsi]

A dungeon like that wouldn't really operate well on their dungeon timer system. .

That's why I said Lost City was wasted potential - It was a 'gated off area', but ended up as an instance instead of overworld. All they need to do is make more overworld dungeons and simply instance important sections when need be, e.g boss areas.

[Duelle]

That's why I said Lost City was wasted potential - It was a 'gated off area', but ended up as an instance instead of overworld. All they need to do is make more overworld dungeons and simply instance important sections when need be, e.g boss areas.

You're looking at this from the wrong angle. The correct line of thought would be to say "dungeon timers are a mistake and should be removed from the game to allow something like Black Rock Depths to be implemented into FFXIV".

As said earlier, the dungeon was designed to be a city so you did have a military quarter, a jails area, a commons area, a commercial district and so on. SE would have to implement the equivalent of an enemy city with numerous bosses and paths to follow with mandatory backtracking. Problem is, that also doesn't work with the way duties are structured.

On top of this, the dungeon itself was designed to last you a couple of levels, as there is a level gap between the bosses in the jail area and bosses leading to Emperor Thaurissan. I'm guessing Blizzard's idea was basically "the lower level players will just kill the bosses on the side of the city that they can do, and as they level up start taking on the bosses leading to the emperor".