I miss the "dangerous" zone/area we had in 1.0

[Laraul]

In FFXI, the three early Promyvion's (like most everything in CoP) which was a mad dash to the next floor, was not a popular extracurricular activity do to the likelihood of being one-shotted. The same with many of the high level beasties in FFXIV 1.0.

If you are looking for a similar experience in 2.0, I suggest The Aurum Vale. Try racing to the first boss room without dying. That's exactly what you are asking for.

[BobbinT]

If you are looking for a similar experience in 2.0, I suggest The Aurum Vale. Try racing to the first boss room without dying. That's exactly what you are asking for.

Sorry, but it doesn't. The poisonous fumes that takes away player's HP at alarming rate are gone. That also includes the fight with Marlboro too. lol

[JustPlainLucas]

Sorry, but it doesn't. The poisonous fumes that takes away player's HP at alarming rate are gone. That also includes the fight with Marlboro too. lol

Are you talking about the pools of goldbile? They're still there.

[BobbinT]

Are you talking about the pools of goldbile? They're still there.

Wrong.

The original 1.0 AV has poisonous fumes when you enter the large area with poison puddle. The fumes alone are already dangerous. Add that by stepping into puddle will even worse your HP droprate.

At start, party have to run to far room that contains berries. Eating berries will nullify damage from fumes, but still take damage from poison puddles. There are blue & red berries. I forgot which one does nullify and which doesn't. And the fruit has short duration that requires player to eat them again in the next area.

Back then, WHM has ability to AOE regen. This is very important to at least even out the damage gotten from fumes. And 2 WHM need to rotate their AOE regen duty perfectly so that party didn't suffer more poison damage.

Now that current ARR has WHM unable to AOE regen anymore, tweaks were made. Now the poison fumes completely gone, in a way though. Fumes still exist, but as part of 1st & last boss attack which will later on force players to eat fruit to nullify that bad status.

You can watch the old 1.0 AV run at youtube. You will notice the screen went yellow-ish when party enter toxic zones, meaning the fume damage starts taking effect. And by then, you will see WHM starts doing AOE regen, then switch to other WHM for another AOE regen, so on till party enter non fume areas.

[Magis]

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Made sense given the lore description in the duty finder for AV.

[Millerna]

Now that current ARR has WHM unable to AOE regen anymore, tweaks were made. Now the poison fumes completely gone, in a way though. Fumes still exist, but as part of 1st & last boss attack which will later on force players to eat fruit to nullify that bad status.

Ever heard of Medica2?

Tweaks were made to make it less annoying for healers, not because of 'no more AoE regen'