Please enable all abilities during roulettes in 7.0.

[Rongway]

No thanks.

Allowing all learned actions in syncked duties requires one of two things:

A) At-level players will do 0.2x to 0.5x as much damage as syncked max level players because extra actions directly correlate to extra damage.
or B) Syncked max level players need to do 2x to 5x as much work as an at-level player to do the same amount of damage because syncked players need to have their damage scaled way down so as not to make at-level players' damage irrelevant.

Neither of these options is appealing.

[Shurrikhan]

or B) Syncked max level players need to do 2x to 5x as much work as an at-level player to do the same amount of damage because syncked players need to have their damage scaled way down so as not to make at-level players' damage irrelevant..

I'd happily take that option.

For myself, though. I'd have no intention of forcing that upon others.

Just put the option in the Duty Finder Settings:

Retain Skills

Retain access to all your current abilities while level-synced down. Note that the power of your individual skills will be adjusted for their increased number. While this may increase your maximum damage slightly, this will of course require you to do more work than those of significantly lower level.
⁘ This setting applies individually. It is not affected by the state set by the party leader.

[Rongway]

I'd happily take that option.

For myself, though. I'd have no intention of forcing that upon others.

The thing is, I don't really care insofar as it applies to me because I'm confident that even with the severe downscaling I'd still put out more than my fair share of damage. It might be a little annoying to have to put in the extra work, but whatever.

But I don't trust three to seven other people to play their jobs well enough that duties won't take twice as long if they get scaled down. Duties with syncked people are going to take longer on average.

[Shurrikhan]

Duties with syncked people are going to take longer on average.

I am totally fine with that. I'd gladly spend a few more minutes for it not to feel so much like a mindless chore.

[LeonKeyh]

B) Synced max level players need to do 2x to 5x as much work as an at-level player to do the same amount of damage because synced players need to have their damage scaled way down so as not to make at-level players' damage irrelevant.

This option is appealing. This one right here officer.

I'd much rather be ABLE to work harder in synced combat. If not that, then they need to clean up the leveling process. It seems like with every "rework" the 1-50 ability gain rate just gets stretched out further and further and you just get things later and later. I was playing MCH in Alliance roulettes and got LotA and forgot how ridiculously anemic the level 50 rotation is.

Hell, make it an option somewhere

"Legacy Sync" (Your stats and abilities are synced down to the level of the duty that you are doing)

"Alternative Sync" (Your stats are synced down, you keep your abilities but their effectiveness is decreased)

Balance Alternative sync around an "average" player doing the same amount that an "average" player would with the legacy sync.

I just want to be able to play the job that I'm playing at the level I have it. If I need to work 5x harder to do the same amount of damage as someone else, so be it.

[Rongway]

If I need to work 5x harder to do the same amount of damage as someone else, so be it.

Okay. Now you're in a dungeon with a tank whose cooldowns only reduce damage by 3%-15% instead of 20%-100% and a healer who can only keep the tank alive by spending all their oGCDs in the first pull and they still have to spam tier II heals once those are all gone, or it's a wipe.

Hyperbole aside, these problems compound when you have multiple people "alternative syncked" and people don't know how to use their action sets effectively.

[LeonKeyh]

Okay. Now you're in a dungeon with a tank whose cooldowns only reduce damage by 3%-15% instead of 20%-100% and a healer who can only keep the tank alive by spending all their oGCDs in the first pull and they still have to spam tier II heals once those are all gone, or it's a wipe.

Hyperbole aside, these problems compound when you have multiple people "alternative syncked" and people don't know how to use their action sets effectively.

Sounds like they shouldn't pull as much then.

You've made up a hypothetical situation where these people are 1/10th of their power instead of what would be more likely, i.e. the balance would work out so that playing in a level 40 dungeon would require the exact same (probably lesser) skill and ability use as Expert roulette. If these people are failing in this way, they would be failing in expert roulettes.

[Ransu]

No thanks.

Allowing all learned actions in syncked duties requires one of two things:

A) At-level players will do 0.2x to 0.5x as much damage as syncked max level players because extra actions directly correlate to extra damage.
or B) Syncked max level players need to do 2x to 5x as much work as an at-level player to do the same amount of damage because syncked players need to have their damage scaled way down so as not to make at-level players' damage irrelevant.

Neither of these options is appealing.

It works in other games. I see no reason why it can't work here.

[Shurrikhan]

B) Syncked max level players need to do 2x to 5x as much work as an at-level player to do the same amount of damage because syncked players need to have their damage scaled way down so as not to make at-level players' damage irrelevant.

This is the way WoW's sync works. The devs have even noted that they rather badly screwed up the tuning, in low-level players' favor (to the point of their doing up to 40% more damage than intended relative to their higher-leveled allies, especially if in messy pulls where higher-level players' burst tools go to waste). And it's still far preferable to having a hugely reduced kit.