Low level Combat gameplay and Job identity is HORRIBLE.

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Then again, how is clearing a low level and dated dungeon faster than how it's originally was, a bad thing?

Unless FFXIV run on horizontal progression like GW2, with every new expansion released, the gamplay experience at low level dungeon is gonna get worse for both newbie/sprout and veteran due the total amount of abilities in job kit is diluted even further.

This is probably one of the less uglier solution out of other more uglier solutions.

It's bad when mobs die under 5s yes. Which is already close to being a thing, because currently they die under 10s.

People telling me that they can sync all those high level skills appropriately, by how much? What are we talking about here exactly, because you do realize that getting 2-3 stacks of xenoglossy and Fouls of 600p, Flares, etc literally in sastasha is going to nuke everything down right? You can always tell me "oh yeah but the potency of those skills would be cut by half/whatever" and you'd still end up with jobs doing literally at least 50% or double of their actual power output at low level.

I system I could see perhaps is instead to have the system check the total potency per second gained by all the too high level abilities and then readjust the whole kit at low level with a negative coefficient modifier to readjust the final damage output, I don't know... But that sounds like a balance nightmare. But I mean why not?

This whole argument falls appart when you notice many of the older and newer MMOs allready implemented a Scaling system so you can keep most of your abilities While doing "dungeonfinders" what your describing is not an issue.

I don't know how they do it in other MMOs. I know XIV and how its stat scaling works though. Maybe instead of telling me that they do it right because they do, you should start telling me how they make it right to begin with?