Quote Originally Posted by Teknoman View Post
Its not really an easy mode for those near that level. Its odd that they decided to make higher levels beat up the lower level battle though.

Whats with this though:

Furthermore, players in possession of the quest item "Inferno Lamp" are eligible for greater rewards for defeating Ifrit in the Bowl of Embers (Hard).

Do you get the lamp from the early quest?
That wouldn't make sense because you already have to do it in order to even get access to Bowl of Embers (hard).

I hope that the "greater rewards" are the same as the "greater rewards" from all being in the same GC and it is a quest item you can obtain (by accomplishing some task not simply talking to an NPC or getting the quest itself).

Would be a way to equalize rewards for heterogeneous parties with a little more effort required.