Game difficulty, syncing, minimum ilvl and new players

[van_arn]

Tightening up the quest lines is a valid point, but that newbie is probably going to suffer through Sastasha because of other people pulling them along like a kite.

However, if you do what OP suggested, now we'll see people kicking the newbies because they want to go fast. If they can't kick the newbie, they'll abandon. Now the newbie can never get through this required group content.

SE has kind of shot themselves in the foot here with forced group content. They can't make it such a chore that no one ever does roulettes. That's there to keep things going so new people *can* get through their MSQ. But that means the challenge may not be able to be there for the newbie. There's really not a good solution.

I don't agree with raising difficulty because a sprout is there. You're right in that would only add drama. There's a glimmer of truth to what they're posting, though, in that the content is too weak to match the story.

If Square can't make a run through Sastasha engaging, then retire Sastasha. Remove it from roulette and skip the requirement in the MSQ. Requiring content to be engaging really shouldn't be negotiable; content that isn't engaging has lost its raison d'etre.

I'd rather them simply rebalance ilvl for the dungeon for all synced parties so it requires some attention, but not so much attention as min ilvl. Redoing the skill sync system (so a player can bring their entire rotation scaled down) is also an option, but a much more difficult one to implement successfully.

It's easy to misunderstand this as a request to make sastasha "hardcore" or "difficult" but what we have just doesn't qualify as a dungeon. If people leave roulettes because they can no longer just Netflix their way through free levels, I can't say I'd miss them. They'd already decided they'd rather watch Netflix than play XIV.