Quote Originally Posted by JBee View Post
I do agree with you on this - it's painful when someone is drastically unprepared for a zone. Unprepared is one thing - drastically so is another. Recent thread about Castrum Abania at i272 even echoes that sentiment - a lot of people feel the same way, to varying degrees.

Would make everyone's lives so much simpler to put some basic restrictions on zones and roulette - nothing too high where it would prevent new players from participating. But a level 41 dungeon with no job crystal is a little ridiculous.

- Require job crystals for dungeons over 30 (Brayflox and higher). If I were that new player, I wouldn't bat an eye at that - oh I need job crystal? Oh ok, I need to do that then. Done.
- Minimum ilvl for dungeons. Shouldn't need to be fully geared up to do everything all the way through the game, but having a dps come in with a dreadfully low ilvl where they are doing little to no damage is just a waste of a spot and makes the run harder for everyone else.
- Allow BLU into the DF - and require a certain number of actions, specific actions, or type of actions learned and slotted in (if you cannot change them in a dungeon); Disallow certain abilities that would break specific encounters; Disable effects on abilities on bosses as needed (such as silence, bind, etc)
Answering bolded part, rest I agree with. This is even more true now that you don't need to level a specific class to 15 to get the job like pre-SB. To get white mage, I had to level to 15 archanist before I could unlock it and this is no longer the case. I know people complained about removing that requirement, but it has stopped the excuse for not having a job crystal.

Maybe your idea for DF for BLU could be done, although I'm curious if we can swap skills in Dungeons now with BLU as despite popular belief it can go in dungeons and trials as some skills require it. Not having to worry about PUG's may be a good thing without re-writing the code to make sure certain skills are learned before going into a dungeon for roulettes. I know I'll at least try the class and bet PF will get lots of BLU's looking to run dungeons to learn skills like from Cutter's Cry, Ifrit, and Shiva.