Quote Originally Posted by Seraphor View Post
For one patch... then as gear progresses, they'll be "punished" again anyway.

This isn't a new trial that follows gear progression.
It's a old trial rereleased as part of a new form of casual side content that will cycle.
It's moogle tomes in a different form.
It's wonderous tails.
You don't complain that all of the old content involved in those is ilvl synced.
No you're right, I don't complain when I do wondrous tails because I can unsync it, and I don't have to run leviathan extreme minimum ilv every time.

This version of shiva is minimum ilv 430 and max ilv 435 which means that depending on how they tune it, people stuck on dps checks will get no way of easily outgearing it and therefore isn't casual content. So if it's not casual content, why can't we use our better gear?

Unless they make it super easy, but then what's the point of it exactly?? Just run the old one unsynced.

Quote Originally Posted by Tsumdere View Post
They aren't being punished. It's a mini-game.

It's honestly quite funny seeing people quaking in their boots about not being able to ilvl cheese their way through SHIVA EX (one of the easiest EXs ever). If you have ilvl 500 gear, you should be able to smash this Unreal Trial synced or not because you SHOULD know your rotations much more than the average player.

I don't know who you're talking to exactly while quoting me because I've already cleared and farmed the old extreme fight in ARR.

My issue here is that if this is indeed aimed at newbies, and is supposed to be casual content, forcing the ilv to be only between 430 and 435 makes it either:

Really hard for newbies because if you're at that ilv outside of this content you probably haven't mastered your rotation etc yet, even the ronkan set is 440.

or

Really easy for everyone because they undertuned it, in which case, what is this content's purpose? If it's supposed to be upsynced but it's weak why not just do the original unsynced.

Please don't tell me "but it's for the fun glam rewards" because they could've easily just updated wondrous tails.

But I guess neither of you even bother reading my first post in this thread because you both didn't understand my concern with the sync.