Forced Level Sync (inb4 vote abandon)

[RazeLandale]

I'm not totally against the idea, but at 110 it seems a bit pointless. Kinda already passed the point of marginalizing dungeons at that point already, so why bother?

Blanket disabling of all materia however, is a huge jerk move. Materia's a large investment for not a lot of gains. If someone pentamelded one of those i90 as a sidegrade to myth you should just let them have it.

[Zelth]

I'm not totally against the idea, but at 110 it seems a bit pointless. Kinda already passed the point of marginalizing dungeons at that point already, so why bother?

Blanket disabling of all materia however, is a huge jerk move. Materia's a large investment for not a lot of gains. If someone pentamelded one of those i90 as a sidegrade to myth you should just let them have it.

When undertaking a duty utilizing item level sync, the item level of any gear exceeding the maximum item level will be adjusted accordingly. ..... While item level sync is active, any materia that is equipped will not increase players’ attributes.

Sounds to me like only gear exceeding the maximum iLvl will be affected, i90 crafted stuff should be fine.

[SirSaber]

It's okay really, the dungeons are synced at 110, more then enough. Otherwise people would exploit instances to grab chests and/pr burn through the content way too fast.

[Nutz]

The implementation of this seems weird to me. Sure the current (soon to be previous) expert roulette dungeons are simple with i110 gear, but I don't understand why they will have the same i110 cap as WP and AK. You'd think there'd be a scale or something. Like:
WP/ AK >i80
PS/ CM (HM)/ HM (HM) > i90
LC/ Halitali (HM)/ Brayflox (HM) >i100
Hullbreaker/ Tam-tara (HM)/ SV (HM) > i110

Or if they were to make the level sync as lenient for all dungeons as it is for WP/ AK then Hullbreaker and the other i70 dungeons would have a cap of i135.

Well, either way it just seems a bit pointless, but odd that the i70 (required) dungeons can't be anymore overgeared than they could on release.

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

I don't get why people are complaining about the current dungeons (2.3 and earlier) getting ilevel sync to 110. For all intents and purposes, it already is synced to 110.

[Squa11_Leonhart]

I get they're attempting to keep old content fun, but honestly that's lazy and a bad idea. I know many many players who do terrible dps at i100-110, you seriously think I want to fight dps check fights in haukke manor with them synced at whatever ilvl you have planned? Also I know a lot of people who enjoy entering old content to see how fast they can burn things. this only premotes failed parties and the idea that doing those dungeons is not for fun but for quests or animus books, I know the majority of duty Finder parties for those particular instances getting synced are usually low skill as it is, removing their only way to carry them (their gear) is just going to result in arguing, people kicking, vote abandoning, etc.

I get some people love the challenge this will present, but I have no idea why you're doing those dungeons for fun.

Tell them to clean up their act or stop playing with them then, ney?

[BobbinT]

You know...

Ever since elite hunts introduced, I was rarely DFing for any high level dungeon contents. In fact, I think I never do that anymore. I only do expert roulette these days. There are few stuff that I "might" need, such as those god-awful RNG on those minion loots. But in the end, it doesn't worth my time to let RNG waste it.

I don't really mind about the level sync of 110 which is still high enough for me. But in general view, this looks like more hindrance to attract ppl doing old contents anymore, unless it happens to be related with important quest like relic animus stuff. I didn't even see the incentive of doing high level dungeons anymore, except maybe helping someone clearing them. Even spiritbonding purposes feels 'meh' doing at these dungeons.

[Jaykos]

Hard to do that when its dungeon finder.