All The Doom Threads Are Strange To Me

[Erzaa]

They are good because, unlike farming Expert dungeons all week, farming Bozja meant you got a variety of different bosses in different orders. It wasn't set in stone which CE would be next or if certain CEs would even spawn while you were there. There was so much variety, whereas if you do an Expert roulette, it's the same 3 bosses, in the same order.

SE did put the degree of development into CEs that they put into dungeon or trial bosses. Internally, that is the sort of work they put in. It wasn't just "let's give it a conal AoE to spam" like fates.

Agreed! There was some randomness to them, at first. But eventually, they're finite. You're going to see them all, learn them all then repeat them all ad nauseum, they're going to get old, just like any other raid, any other roulette, any other piece of content in the game.

Why is it better for someone to repeat content 100 times and that's quality, instead of 20 times, get your reward and be on your merry way?

[Jeeqbit]

Agreed! There was some randomness to them, at first. But eventually, they're finite. You're going to see them all, learn them all then repeat them all ad nauseum, they're going to get old, just like any other raid, any other roulette, any other piece of content in the game.

Why is it better for someone to repeat content 100 times and that's quality, instead of 20 times, get your reward and be on your merry way?

I'm not gonna decide on a timeframe. That's for SE to do. But having grindy content is good for players who want to spend more than a day playing.

What I've always thought was good about this game is how:
casual players can do the content once, probably getting carried through it by healers, then unsubscribe until the next patch.
hardcore players can farm mounts and take a lot of time, get really good at the fights, experience the content a decent amount of times.

The amount of times we need to farm is for SE to figure out, but to me the difference from prior expansions has been how the content either isn't battle content, or is overly quiet like Island Sanctuary or being able to solo variants.