Remove item level sync

[Cinno]

Story stuff like this is always synced. It always will be. This is the last dungeon of the baseline msq, people getting to it late should get to experience it the same way everyone else did. It's no fun to have this big cinematic experience (opinions may vary, but its still the lead up to the end of the story) and have to miss half the mechanics because the overgeared party kills everything in half the time.

Just deal with it until 7.1, then a new dungeon will be added that wont be item level synced, and Alexandria will be rotated out.

[Purrnauskis]

Story stuff like this is always synced. It always will be. This is the last dungeon of the baseline msq, people getting to it late should get to experience it the same way everyone else did. It's no fun to have this big cinematic experience (opinions may vary, but its still the lead up to the end of the story) and have to miss half the mechanics because the overgeared party kills everything in half the time.

Just deal with it until 7.1, then a new dungeon will be added that wont be item level synced, and Alexandria will be rotated out.

But like I said, Alexandria doesn't really have anything going on during the trash packs or the bosses. It already forces you to watch the "cinematic experience" during those arbitrary walls when there is 0 trash. And if its called expert roulette then why is Alexandria there?

Honestly, I feel like item level sync needs to be stricter in all content, not more lax. This is a video game, the content should be fun to play, not just an obstacle you want to skip through to get what you want to achieve.

Absolutely not. A big point of a MMO is progression and power is part of that. This is endgame content, it is literally called expert roulette and it is the highest dungeon content there is. What you essentially want to do is strip that progression or feeling of it away and make gear useless and pointless.

And fun is subjective. Feeling like you are progressing and get more powerful may not be fun to you but it is fun to others.

[ovIm]

Absolutely not. A big point of a MMO is progression and power is part of that. This is endgame content, it is literally called expert roulette and it is the highest dungeon content there is. What you essentially want to do is strip that progression or feeling of it away and make gear useless and pointless.

And fun is subjective. Feeling like you are progressing and get more powerful may not be fun to you but it is fun to others.

there has to be a sweet spot for that though, cause while feeling powerful is part of an MMO, being to powerful comes at a detriment to the experience of a combat encounter (best examples are Nald'Thal and Glasya Labolas)

Becoming powerful should mean you can push phases easier and earlier, as well as survive otherwise deadly mistakes, not turn every bit of content into an unsynched style cakewalk.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

But like I said, Alexandria doesn't really have anything going on during the trash packs or the bosses. It already forces you to watch the "cinematic experience" during those arbitrary walls when there is 0 trash. And if its called expert roulette then why is Alexandria there?



Absolutely not. A big point of a MMO is progression and power is part of that. This is endgame content, it is literally called expert roulette and it is the highest dungeon content there is. What you essentially want to do is strip that progression or feeling of it away and make gear useless and pointless.

And fun is subjective. Feeling like you are progressing and get more powerful may not be fun to you but it is fun to others.

Totally agree with ovIm they need to fix sync. We have 3 dungeons with some oomph and then countless others that are a snooze fest. What's worse is a lot of fun mechanics have been stripped out of the dungeons to make them even easier to fit the single player agenda (i.e freeze mobs in Snowcloak).

As for getting to endgame that's a laugh in itself you have 4 raids(Glorified trials) and 2 extremes. Once you have the mounts and clears that's a days content and even if you haven't cleared its a handful of fights to spam over and over it's tedious.

I'm also sick of saying to friends and new players "the game will get harder once you get to <insert recent expansion> just stick with it" For them to eventually quit because of how long it takes.

[Purrnauskis]

I'm also sick of saying to friends and new players "the game will get harder once you get to <insert recent expansion> just stick with it" For them to eventually quit because of how long it takes.

This has been my experience trying to get people into FF14 aswell. It takes ages to get into any actual content unless you REALLY enjoy the story through all the expansions and same talk to X and fetch quests.

Even WoW gives you a boost when u buy an expansion and timewalking exists...