EU Fanfest Info Thread

[Atlaworks]

That relies on A) PotD scaling above level 60 and B) there being no MSQ dungeons. If you want to level through the MSQ on a DPS expect extremely long queues for the first couple of months.

But PotD scaling doesn't need to be above 60, it'll scale you back appropriately like it always has on earlier floors.

[EusisLandale]

But PotD scaling doesn't need to be above 60, it'll scale you back appropriately like it always has on earlier floors.

Essentially jumping straight from 60 to 70 will be a mess, and that's assuming the EXP gained from there remains good for going past level 60.

one might think, but theyre vamping combat, and supposedly adjusting stats like parry. might actually make tanks more dps centric and fun to play

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with doing as much DPS as one can as a tank, I'm saying prioritizing it over proper management of both enmity and incoming damage is a problem. Expecting the DPS and Healers to perfectly manage their own enmity, and in the case of Ninjas your own as well, refusing to adjust rotation as an OT to permit the MT to spend time out of their Tank Stance, not properly using abilities to keep what damage they take down. The less "I'm a blue DPS" tanks we have the better.

[RaijinSupreme]

But PotD scaling doesn't need to be above 60, it'll scale you back appropriately like it always has on earlier floors.

but its very possible (and far more likely) that the exp gained from POTD past level 60 will not be significant enough to justify leveling through it, especially when we will have new dungeons, fates, and possibly other better ways to level.

If I were the dev team, I would make sure that POTD would not be a viable choice for leveling. That would diminish the usefulness of the new areas almost entirely.

[Pells]

but its very possible (and far more likely) that the exp gained from POTD past level 60 will not be significant enough to justify leveling through it, especially when we will have new dungeons, fates, and possibly other better ways to level.

If I were the dev team, I would make sure that POTD would not be a viable choice for leveling. That would diminish the usefulness of the new areas almost entirely.

Like how people continued to spam fates in Northern Thanalan because leveling via fates in HW areas wasn't as fast?

[Kit-Kat]

Like how people continued to spam fates in Northern Thanalan because leveling via fates in HW areas wasn't as fast?

It was a transition from a small maps world to a huge maps world. Doing the same spamming HW FATEs wouldn't be as efficient as it would take longer to reach, with different altitudes with flying. Northen thanalan was popular because it was small, easy to reach and easy to "leech" by tanks and healers doing aoe heals and aoe enmity, and also a LOT of bots (for the same reason, easily and fast reachable fates).

[RaijinSupreme]

Like how people continued to spam fates in Northern Thanalan because leveling via fates in HW areas wasn't as fast?

Exactly. That method, to me, ruined the entire reason why we have new fates in brand new large areas. Those should have been utilized to level from 50-60, but the player base instead wanted to find the fastest & the easiest way to do it, and exploit the mess out of it. It left the new areas practically barren for a while until like level 58 when people would go into the hinterlands to continue leveling.

The same thing will definitely happen with POTD if they scale up the experience you get from it. I don't mind it being viable up to level 60, but past level 60 should be for Stormblood.