SE, fix your old A rank health points.

[LeonKeyh]

As far as i remember this has nothing to do with the stat squish. Yoshi hated the idea of A/S Ranks being 1HKOed by max level players, so they changed that on purpose

It does have to do with the stat squish, at least partially.

Whenever the stat squish happened, doing unsynced content would be more difficult. I don't remember the exact numbers, but 1-50 remained unchanged and 51-80 was reduced with 81-90 matching the Shadowbringers stat growth. This means that level 90 characters are "weaker" than they were at level 80 (and also, right now, don't have the highest ilvl for expansion cap). For DF content, they made up for that change by giving buffs whenever doing unsynced content; However, those buffs didn't carry over to the overworld (obviously).

I doubt that they changed how powerful the A ranks were to other characters at that level; It's just that level 90 players are "closer" to it stat-wise than level 80 players were.


Edit: I agree though, this is a good thing. They should be available for groups; Find your DC's hunt train community if you want to take them out!

[Sove92]

It does have to do with the stat squish, at least partially.

Whenever the stat squish happened, doing unsynced content would be more difficult. I don't remember the exact numbers, but 1-50 remained unchanged and 51-80 was reduced with 81-90 matching the Shadowbringers stat growth. This means that level 90 characters are "weaker" than they were at level 80 (and also, right now, don't have the highest ilvl for expansion cap). For DF content, they made up for that change by giving buffs whenever doing unsynced content; However, those buffs didn't carry over to the overworld (obviously).

I doubt that they changed how powerful the A ranks were to other characters at that level; It's just that level 90 players are "closer" to it stat-wise than level 80 players were.


Edit: I agree though, this is a good thing. They should be available for groups; Find your DC's hunt train community if you want to take them out!

They did squish ARR endgame content (basically anything past IL70+ content), it's just that shaving off 20k HP from an A rank is a negligible difference to a lv90 player when damage numbers are not what they used to be.

And no, they are not going to "fix" this, because lv50 content is designed with lv50 values in mind, not 90.

[Jojoya]

As long as you're not dying to old expansion Rank As (short of failing to do mechanics), there's nothing wrong with the numbers. It's fine for things to take longer to die - that encourages players to invite others to join them instead of soloing them so everyone else misses out for the next 4-6 hours.