Increase difficulty on Crystal tower and Mhach Raids

[Willemdarke]

The level sync for older content, specifically raids/Alliance raids is bad. The result is tedious and boring Alliance raids, except for SB and ShB (even EW seems horribly undertuned).

Thing is, rewards for doing these raids nowadays is also laughable. Glamour rewards are entirely random and you may need 10-20+ runs to get the piece you need. Some people feel forced to do them for current currency (even though they are better means to acquire it, like a single night of Treasure maps with friends, but I digress).

I'm all for them bringing the scaling/difficulty to where it should be to make them FUN, but they also need to add some sort of currency you can use to buy/guarantee glamour with to 'compensate'. This would be win/win for us players, I think.

[AngaratoSvartberg]

yea would be funny if we had to actually do mechanics again

[Rueby]

No please keep the CT raids easy so I can get minimal damage to my retinas caused by oversaturated crystals and horribly lit corridors/arenas.

[Nurana]

I'd rather they just keep it the way it is it's old content and i get that to some it would be more fun but to many it would also be the opposite and look at the nier raids many hate them because they take longer though this is because of the hp the bosses i feel like re balancing old raids would end up feeling the same

[Alice_Rivers]

I agree there is definitely room to bring old content back up to par. I saw someone earlier talk about twisters on an AR scale - I too love that image.

[PercibelTheren]

They need some number adjustments, I think. A lower iLvl would go a long way but there has also been a lot of potency creep since then.

[Kes13a]

never happen.

it seems SE's moral imperative is to have people able to coast to level cap fully comatose.

get with the times, the game has moved on from anything in the past that may have been a challenge, these raids included.

[Garruss]

How about just leaving old content as it is so they can focus on new things?

[CaptainLagbeard]

I think if they brought them to an ilvl of what the average player would've had when they were new, it would cause a lot of wipes. And I'd be down to see that and all the complaints about it by people who have only ever cruised freely through them.

[Shinku_Tachi]

How about just leaving old content as it is so they can focus on new things?

Pretty much my point of view. This isn't mid 2000s era FFXI. The entire design around FFXIV is built around getting people through old content as quickly and easily as possible, to get to current content.

That said, I wouldn't mind seeing (Ultimate) versions of those raids for people to do outside of roulette.