Quote Originally Posted by Kosmos992k View Post
In my opinion, we're looking at a straight conflict between the vested self interest of a group of high level players at end-game who want to grind everything out as quickly as possible, and the more altruistic interests of players who want to play the content as it was intended to be played, and help other players learn and enjoy the game.
I love how you portray the people that disagree with you as having nothing but a vested self interest, and the people that agree with you as being altruistic. Just because someone doesn't agree with you doesn't automatically mean that they should be demonized. Personally, I'm against a stricter level sync on these dungeons, but it's not purely out of self interest. What I worry about most is people abandoning the runs when they see there's a new person. I worry about people simply queueing in premades, leaving the queues for the dungeons all but abandoned for the newer players. Because I worry about these things, I presented to you the fact that the veterans that are running the old content for Animus and Zodiac are being shoved back into that content multiple times now.

Look at it this way. We are now doing (as an example) Amdapor Keep for the third time for our Zodiac weapons, and this time we have to farm the hell out of it unless we get lucky in the first couple of runs. If your idea were to be implemented, not only would we have a stricter level sync, we'd potentially be in there with someone that we would also have to teach the mechanics to. While some people may be willing to give a detailed run-down of the mechanics of every single boss fight in any given dungeon, many would either just bail and eat the half hour penalty (which is shorter than some of those dungeons when you're at a lower item level than we are now) or avoid the problem entirely by putting up party finders exclusively for Zodiac drop farming rather than queueing in duty finder.

Neither of these is good for new players because it makes them wait even longer in the queue for the dungeons. Even if they don't get to run the content as it was intended, at least they get to get through the content for progression. A soldiery bonus only does so much. There's far faster ways to get soldiery than to slog through a level synced dungeon with someone that doesn't know anything about the content.

So yeah. Please don't try to make the argument that we're only looking out for our own self interest.