Deep dungeon - hmmm

[Whocareswhatmynameis]

I know people hate the whole 'carrot on a stick mentality' but the longevity of this system and its content are based around providing incentives.

I think they did good in the incentive department, theres 2 minions and a mount that give people incentive to run it at least 16 times... But I just feel it's a bit too easy, especially since it rewards lvl 235 weapons. It's easier than the regular dungeons we have now.I think this would have been a good opportunity to give ppl more endgame stuff to do besides grinding tomes and savage (which no1 does). Just kind of feels like a missed opportunity. I know there are more floors coming that are suppose to be more challenging, but god knows how long till that happens. And doesn't nullify the fact you will have to beat the 50-100 easy floors to get to the hard ones

The content itself is decent imo.

[Felis]

It's barely like Nyzul. The only only thing they have in common is random layout. That's it. Bosses in Nyzul were harder. There were more challenges and objectives. Here, it's just kill a bunch of mobs. Rinse and repeat. Deep dungeon isn't bad, but it's lacking. Honestly, I'm getting real tired of "story" content being so easy. Just stop it. It doesn't need to be savage difficulty, but there's no reason why this couldn't be a challenge.

Was Nyzul soloable?
How I see the difficulty in PofD:
4 man party - easy mode (if you just want to rush through it)
solo - challenge (have to think about how to pull, have potions ready to use, have to use the pomandes more often)

Don't know how it is with 2 man

[Draginhikari]

To be fair, much of Nyzul's time required had less to do with the difficulty of the content then the restrictive time restraints between time you could actually do it. Often times even with a good team it was extremely possible to get nailed to the floor by a bad set of RNG elements where you ended up with order lamps on multiple floors in a row.

[Zhamkyong]

Was Nyzul soloable?
How I see the difficulty in PofD:
4 man party - easy mode
solo - challenge

Don't know how it is with 2 man

I found it changelling with 2. The first 20 level were kinda facerolling, but The dificulty spiked at the start of 21 floor. We had to be more carefull and nearly ran out of time. I miss auto res...

[Cabalabob]

My problem with palace of the dead is it has fallen into the same problem as diadem, it has some interesting ideas but they didn't add any variety to objectives, once again it's just kill all enemies and move on.

In ffxi each floor of nyzul isle had a different objective, like a puzzle where you had to activate lamps in a sequence, or kill a specific enemy or kill a mini boss or bonus objectives like avoid being spotted by certain enemies, there could also be notorious monsters on random floors and if you killed them they dropped a chest with a special weapon inside.

Stuff like this could easily have been used, like having a wanted target appear on random floors that 100% drops a blue chest. This is better than diadem but once again I think they missed an opportunity to make it better.

[Allistar]

My complaints are that you gain levels so quickly and the floors are too short and very straight forward...I mean if you're going to do this type of content why not look at XI and see how it was implemented and improve on its design...

[Felis]

My complaints are that you gain levels so quickly and the floors are too short and very straight forward...I mean if you're going to do this type of content why not look at XI and see how it was implemented and improve on its design...

How many floors had Nyzul?

[Draginhikari]

My complaints are that you gain levels so quickly and the floors are too short and very straight forward...I mean if you're going to do this type of content why not look at XI and see how it was implemented and improve on its design...

Honestly I think people are overselling Nyzul Isle to be a better designed event then it actually was.

[TankHunter678]

How's the exp in there? Is it comparable to just leveling a job in dungeons or considerably less?

As a level 56 1-10 gives 270k exp with the 50% exp boost from it being an alt-job.

[Vantol]

Did whole thing twice. Kill, kill, kill, repeat. At least in Diadem you could be watching TV during that (or mind your own business). Same concept, challenging or not. Nothing new, nothing interesting. I guess SE FFXIV team just isn't capable of creating involving content.

For me it was "make or break". So I wish best luck to all who is staying.