Quote Originally Posted by LaurieB View Post
I don't see what the harm in this is. I really don't. I would have liked that too as with a slow internet connection, dungeons are very difficult towards the end of the story line with all the AOE by the ton. And what is harming you personally? Nothing. You could still continue to play just like you always have. Options are just that, options. MMO Massive Multiplayer Online..nowhere does it say MMOMAG (Massive Multiplayer Online Must Always Group) Give people options. Don't like it? Don't do it that way. It was brought up as a request for options, not a demand to change the whole game.
Yeah, however if you've paid attention to this form, people get screamed at for being "lazy", so there would be pushback against this just like there was against the jump pots and job completion pots.

Quote Originally Posted by Penthea View Post
What OP is asking for isn't accomplished with a simple tweak. It would require a gigantic amount of content to be retuned. This would create a large amount of additional work for the devs, which would take their time away from maintaining current content and creating new content. Considering it's under such tiny demand, it would be wasteful for the devs to spend time on it.
Not necessarily. There is a minimum ilevel tickbox, and an undersized party tickbox, there can just as easily be a "god mode" tickbox that sets the echo to 100,000%. The only issue really is the goal was to see the mechanics, because you're not going to see any of it if you can flatten everything in one hit. That said, that would be the wrong solution anyway since what you really want is the command missions to actually teach a solo player how to play that duty and not simply stand in AOE's taking damage like the AI players tend to do.

There's actually an interesting opportunity here IF SE manages to let players re-play all the solo duties/quests (w/o experience/items/rewards) as well. By setting some kind of "replay mode", players could either do these fights again (eg the MSQ fights, job fights) or just set "review mode" and have it set the echo to a level that prevents any damage from being taken so the player could take their time, set camera angles, record things without the UI elements lit up, etc.

But it certainly would not be any fun if you could do this to content you have not completed. By which I'm saying it is a MMO game, and if you only care about the story or RP'ing in the game, you should still be required to unlock content by playing the game as designed, otherwise there's not any point in playing it at all.