Stat squish confirmed: How will unsynced old content be handled?

[Deceptus]

A stat squish. A concept WoW has attempted multiple times and gotten wrong EVERY.SINGLE.TIME. Something always goes wrong.

If this is true and well developed:

Damage reduction example: 530 BLM using Fire 4 with no crit/direct hit deals about 50k damage, this will become about 10k damage. Ratio of damage to enemy health will stay the same

Then this should NOT occur.

Undersized parties might be more difficult

The FFXIV Developers have two choices in front of them. Make enemies stronger and old, outdated content harder or make players stronger and old, outdated content easier.

It's a tough balancing act and I'm glad I don't have to be the one pulling the trigger on the decision. I am concerned with the FFXIV development team because their track record on system overhauls isn't exactly stellar, or even good at this point.

Lower levels aren't really the problem. The problem comes at the end of expansions, where gear score explodes. We don't notice it much during the patches when they're current because we're just keeping up, but just look at the jump from, say, level 70 job gear (item level 290) to Augmented Scaevan (400). And then the next expansion has to keep up with that power creep.

The Devs have pretty much standardized ilvls over the last few expanions. It's usually 120-130 ilvls from old expansion tome gear to new expansion tome gear.