White Raven earring given out at The Rising event 2018

[HyoMinPark]

I don't do Ultimate and probably never will, but it shouldn't be unsyncable. It should be ilevel locked forever. The whole point of having Ultimate is for the people that want a challenge. It wouldn't make sense to ease something that exists solely to be hard. And it would make even less sense to just hand out the rewards from it to anybody.

While that would be nice, any job changes made between 4.0 and 5.0 could potentially have detrimental effects on the respective performances in the content. For example, DRG, when synced down below level 60, can no longer keep BotD up naturally through their rotation—they have to actively hit the buff key at certain points. While not game breaking, it can mess with the flow. Plus, some jobs have been neutered pre-60 (and even pre-70 — e.g., MCH), that if similar changes and more skill pruning were made, they would have but a skeleton of a rotation (again, MCH is a prime example of this).

I would not be surprised if they allow for Ultimate to be unsynced in 5.0, and I honestly expect that to be the case. Though, I still think it would be nice to take the content and rebalance it for level 80, I’m not going to expect it. As long as I get my clears prior to 5.0, what they do will have little to no effect on me short of thinking “it’s sad to think of what the content used to be like”. Though, it’s still challenging enough that, even at level 80, people who have no idea what they’re doing won’t get very far.

[Tint]

While that would be nice, any job changes made between 4.0 and 5.0 could potentially have detrimental effects on the respective performances in the content.

A really good example is Coil Turn 10. There is a mechanic where you MUST shield 2 people at the same time. Back then you could do that with Stoneskin. But neither WHM nor Diurnal AST have access to shields on level 50 anymore...