Quote Originally Posted by Buttobi View Post
If WoW can do this then I don't understand why ffxiv can't do this.
I'm sure SE can do it (they do it with Blue Mage and Role Actions). It's just that there are benefits to it being this way, that's all.

In MMORPGs, a lot of people want to "go back to a previous expansion". In quite a big way, you can in this game, in part because of prior expansion content being relevant (via roulettes) but also in part because of rotations syncing down.

But also, I don't know if other games' combat works the same way or not. In this game, everything isn't on the GCD, so additional abilities can unbalance older content. In this game, you have potency, which is the percentage of your base damage that is dealt (ie. 400 potency is 400% damage).

So if a higher level attack has 800 potency in Sastasha, they would need to find a way to also sync down the actual potency, not just the item level, and I am not sure that there is a universal table with this information for the sync system to reference (they would need to create it).