"Steps of Faith" Extreme please

[Darki]

I have no intention of knocking on players who like the new nerfs. Speaking for myself and maybe others, I liked how the fight required teamwork to defeat (making use of the Dragonkillers and Snares for example.) For those of us who liked the harder difficulty, this seems like the perfect solution.

It can easily be worked into the story. Isghard has been at war with the dragons for a very long time after all. No reason to believe they would ease up now.

"Like" if you would like to see an optional extreme version of this fight with bonus rewards.

[Chibilidawg]

What we need is Praetorium (Extreme), CT/ST/WoD (Extreme), & All Dungeons (Extreme).

Game is severely hurting in mid-core difficulty tier.

And it just keeps getting worse with Echo, out-gearing, & nerfing.

Game just needs 3 difficulty tiers for most instanced content(s).

Normal & Hard Difficulty raiding is a start...

Problem is: last we heard, Normal will be like full-Echo T1-5 easy (or easier), while Hard will be as difficult as FCOB Savage (if there were one)...

Which even cuts out the mid-core even worse... it's just depressing.

I'm really, desperately hoping they reveal that they'll be doing Dungeon Extremes at minimum for the expansion.

[Gardes]

What we need is Praetorium (Extreme), CT/ST/WoD (Extreme), & All Dungeons (Extreme).

Game is severely hurting in mid-core difficulty tier.

And it just keeps getting worse with Echo, out-gearing, & nerfing.

Or they can just call it normal or medium and start calling the base versions easy. No need to keep lying to the playerbase that they're just doing easy stuff.

[Nalien]

Problem is: last we heard, Normal will be like full-Echo T1-5 easy (or easier), while Hard will be as difficult as FCOB Savage (if there were one)...

Which even cuts out the mid-core even worse... it's just depressing.

I'm really, desperately hoping they reveal that they'll be doing Dungeon Extremes at minimum for the expansion.

Last I heard 3.1 and the Free Company Airship content (the actual Islands with NMs, rather than the Retainer Venture sounding 3.0 Airship content) is pegged at mid-tier difficulty. Not to mention something which can be challenged with however many people you want, sounds like it will effectively be what most people hoped Hunts would be TBH. Pretty much hinges on the rewards at this point though, given they're locked away behind Airships they should hopefully be a lot more mechanically interesting than Hunts, if they end up as just another set of zerg fest FATE boss style mobs I'm going to be pretty damn pissed off.

Gated behind Free Companies with a House of course, which is perhaps the biggest downside (though it also means access is limited, hopefully meaning they can be more interesting), but at least they seem to be making it accessible to Free Companies without a House with the Free Company Alliance system which should let those without a House "borrow" from those with one.

Hopefully it is something they can expand upon with updates. More Housing Wards would certainly be required, but I'd love to see dungeons locked behind Airships; Floating City of Nym anyone? The simple fact that you need to go through a Free Company to even access such content should allow them to provide a reasonable level of challenge from such things.

[Edellis]

What we need is Praetorium (Extreme), CT/ST/WoD (Extreme), & All Dungeons (Extreme)

Oh man, the invasion stories made with actual design and mechanics (other than ZERG) would be awesome. Especially with the Gaius and Ultima Weapon fights.

I always wished they would re-tune the CT raids as 4 man dungeons and make them significantly harder/different. That'd also be awesome.

8 man is cool, but sometimes, i really don't want to sit in DF for 10 years.

[AzraelX]

I rather have Odin and Gligamesh extreme before steps of faith.

[Tiggy]

I rather have Odin and Gligamesh extreme before steps of faith.

This, and Ultima Extreme.

[TheCurls]

It was hard enough to get a party to do the normal one. They were forced to nerf the fight into obscurity because people would land Steps in their roulette and ditch it immediately.

What makes you think an Extreme mode would draw a crowd?

[Darki]

It was hard enough to get a party to do the normal one. They were forced to nerf the fight into obscurity because people would land Steps in their roulette and ditch it immediately.

What makes you think an Extreme mode would draw a crowd?

There is no roulette for extreme fights. Parties for EX fights are always pre-formed via the party finder or FCs. My FC does "savage" coil fights all the time for the challenge and for the fun of it.