Heaven on High: That's it?

[Remedi]

A foundation is the ground that you built on and they did built on it a bit...but most of the player feedback was ignored. From the way that we can access the higher floors, from more different things to do inside (like puzzle rooms), to having a way to save the run even with a DC if you are solo..so a few smaller things changed, yet nothing big was added and it suffers from the same problem like PotD..and its smaller for casual players too with a imo way shorter and less important story..so again, I do enjoy the gameplay itself and the pomanders are more fun than the PotD ones but in the end its just mostly PotD 2.0.

But there was no hint that they would change anything, some ppl expected it to be something completely different from PotD and that is beign delusional.
What PotD was, IS what deep dungeons are going to be, they added new toys and a new type of trap room, but that's it and honestly I wasn't expecting anything more because they didn't thought they were going to. It was the new set of deep dungeon and as such ppl should've expected PotD with a new coat of paint.

Now the DC problem is however a good criticism since it's still a problem to the solo experience.

Though I will say this, the story is actually meatier than Potd, because we had no real story about PotD itself nor how Nybeth actually crossed into Eorzea, we just had a somewhat ending to Edda's story, which wasn't really needed because Tam-tara HM sealed the deal and some grumble grumble life beyond death, but 0 backstory on the place itself, 0 connection to gelmorra, the place goes and goes with no real sense. Meanwhile the story you got here kinda explained to you retroactively what PotD really is and why you lose your powers in this place, not to mention the place is more consistent in his building structire too and they said there are some floor that are actually outside the tower too.
Personally everything is simply better, there's no point for making 100 floors of casual floors if only 10 of those are going to be relevant (let's be honest ppl spammed the 51-60 for exp) you don't need to spend 6 hours to get to the good floors either. It's hard to say this was worse

edit: Now I don't want to deny ppl that were complaining when HoH was announced, because if that's so then ppl are in their right imho