Thread: Reminiscing of 1.0 Dungeons

Originally Posted by Waliel

No one on my server wanted to touch that place. I don't think I ever went inside there, until you needed to talk to a spirit or whatever to get a token for the first moon-celebartion-festival-event-thingy, and even then I soloed it as a Hunter. Feign Death and Shadowmeld, ho!

I went there all the time to level in the late 40/early 50 range iirc. I think it was split into upper and lower sections but I haven't played WoW in 6 years or something.

Originally Posted by Waliel

15 bosses and a couple of rare spawn bosses. It was so big and complex that players had split the place to three or four boss routes to run -- the first room alone had like 30-40 mobs! A full run could literally take half a day to do. Mob levels were also all over the place, because of how big it was. Some of the areas were behind a locked door, where one would need either to complete a quest inside the same dungeon to get it or have a Rogue to pick the lock. You had to be dead to get the quest, which was pretty cool. Can't remember if the loot was any good, except for a couple of pieces, before the vanilla loot revamp. Think all INT on caster gear replaced with PIE tier of bad, but the itemisation in general is another story.

I hope I never see anything like that again.

Why is being able to pick and choose which bosses to kill a bad thing? It gave more choices, you didn't have to clear BRD 100%.

Oh, you mean those great 1.0 dungeons where the goal was to run straight to the boss fighting as little as possible, and if you aren't a bard then you aren't allowed in?

Right, those were the days... >.>

Dont reminisce about older versions/games...It upsets the herd. You dont want a stampede.

I've done 5CSR in every dungeon in 1.0 and they were absolutely fun to do. Could not stand doing them 1000 times for the 1% drop rate of DL gear but Mnk burns on Miser were awesome.

Originally Posted by Chiramu

If version 1 dungeons were so much better than why did they remake FFXIV?

The content design was never the problem in XIV 1.23+.

The issue was the lack of it there was not enough, and then comes into play the issues with a engine that did not work for mmos, combat system, copy paste world.

Crafting, gathering, progression, gear design (stats), and dungeon design were all vastly superior in 1.X compared to 2.X.

Dungeons in 1.X blew away 2.0s issue it how long it took them to make 1 and how few of them they are.

Originally Posted by Xatsh

The content design was never the problem in XIV 1.23+.

The issue was the lack of it there was not enough, and then comes into play the issues with a engine that did not work for mmos, combat system, copy paste world.

Crafting, gathering, progression, gear design (stats), and dungeon design were all vastly superior in 1.X compared to 2.X.

Dungeons in 1.X blew away 2.0s issue it how long it took them to make 1 and how few of them they are.

Must be why 1.0 was a smash hit!

So smashing that it almost crumbled Square-Enix.