Raids and dungeons still relevant after expansion?

[bswpayton]

As far as ex primals go for hw i dobut they will be easy mode the fights are designed better than arr's ones you still have to do the mechanics as most of them are instant kill and you can't really skip a bunch of stuff in them outside of ravana and bismarck

with a level 70 character in high level gear you will skip tones of phases in those fights , just like groups can skip them now with high dps , its gona be easy mood if its unsync. The only things youd have to cocern yourself with are like the puddles in sep which Im sure you prob could skip with high dps, the tilts in sophia I will say this will prob be the biggest problem out of all the hw primals. With broken seal on zurvan being an issue but Im sure that can be skipped to so I dont see how these wouldnt be anymore faceroll than the current arr primals unsync

[Ogulbuk]

with a level 70 character in high level gear you will skip tones of phases in those fights , just like groups can skip them now with high dps , its gona be easy mood if its unsync. The only things youd have to cocern yourself with are like the puddles in sep which Im sure you prob could skip with high dps, the tilts in sophia I will say this will prob be the biggest problem out of all the hw primals. With broken seal on zurvan being an issue but Im sure that can be skipped to so I dont see how these wouldnt be anymore faceroll than the current arr primals unsync

Fun story: my old FC thought it would be easy to just unsync The Bowl of Embers (Extreme.) Anyone that done it will get the punch line.

[bounddreamer]

Fun story: my old FC thought it would be easy to just unsync The Bowl of Embers (Extreme.) Anyone that done it will get the punch line.

My teammates and I go in with a party of three or four for that one...anything more is asking for trouble!

[Natashio]

Fun story: my old FC thought it would be easy to just unsync The Bowl of Embers (Extreme.) Anyone that done it will get the punch line.

That's just the idiocy by part of the developers of using the target's hp to determine the actions of the target. And no, Ifrit extreme is not difficult unsynched. Other fights that have automatic one shot mechanics have to be done, over all everything is just take it, heal through it.

The only way they'll make old content relevant again (Alexander, Void Arc, HW primals, and AAR stuff), though for a week or two, is by adding some random glamour/needed item for new relic in that content. Just how they been doing for the past 4 years.

[SendohJin]

The only way they'll make old content relevant again (Alexander, Void Arc, HW primals, and AAR stuff), though for a week or two, is by adding some random glamour/needed item for new relic in that content. Just how they been doing for the past 4 years.

Wondrous Tails did wonders for old content, she might give out new books that will include more HW stuff. or there might be a 2nd WT type character in SB (which would be weird imo).

[XenabelleS]

Having just came back since Dec 2013, I'm going to be seeing Heavensward for the first time this weekend. So I'll still be in the queue and if it is too slow, ask my FC for a hand.

I see a good number of sprouts on my server which means either new player, or returning player who has not completed 2.55 so I imagine some of them are also like me.

But I gotta give SE credit - their system really does help keep older content alive. I haven't experienced much of an issue running the post 2.0 trials and dungeons (Titan though can suck it). In other games, I'd have no shot at doing these.

[KisaiTenshi]

That's just the idiocy by part of the developers of using the target's hp to determine the actions of the target. And no, Ifrit extreme is not difficult unsynched. Other fights that have automatic one shot mechanics have to be done, over all everything is just take it, heal through it.

The only way they'll make old content relevant again (Alexander, Void Arc, HW primals, and AAR stuff), though for a week or two, is by adding some random glamour/needed item for new relic in that content. Just how they been doing for the past 4 years.

That was the point of "light farming" for Zodiac/Anima weapons. Do the old content, harder old content more valuable.

I think the way to "solve" this in some respect is to create a version for Armor as well. Each armor part adds "light" that comes from specific dungeons. So the body armor and leg armor comes from the SB content (eg the hardest stuff,) the Head, Belt, and Boots come from the HW content. The accessories come from the 2.x content. The content has to be run on "minimum ilevel" with a full party, or duty-finder'd queued solo (eg, can't pre-form a party just to make it easier.) Unlike the weapon which ends up with a lot of time-sinking/resource-sinking stages, the armor is just time-sinking.