2 new dungeons ?

[Ultimatecalibur]

People made it difficult by ignoring boss mechanics.
First boss spawned adds at fixed percentages of health. Kill adds and go back to boss, no problem... But most people insisted on just trying to burn boss.
Last boss was difficult because Siren wasn't silenced/stunned making it very hard on the healer for one specific move...

All in all, people found it hard because they wanted to burn everything instead of dealing with easy mechanics.

No, it was not just that.
All four bosses used the "adds spawn at X% HP" mechanic, but because most players were in i70 to i90 gear and PS and it was tuned for i60 problems started occurring in the bosses timings.

It was fairly easy to unintentionally burn the 1st boss to the second add wave trigger when the first set of dogs were spawning. This would not have been so bad if the debuff the dogs and the boss' AoEs applied wasn't a near instant kill explosion when you got to many stacks.

Zu (2nd Boss) gained enrage stacks for each egg broken and lost them over time. Because the eggs started hatching based on the boss' hp% but the enrage stacks fell off based on time a group, doing the mechanics properly (kill only the hatching eggs) would cause an enrage if your dps was to good.

Siren herself was basically a semi-HM Primal fight. One of her adds would chase and gaol the tank/healer if it caught them, every so often she would do a wide charge through the center or a room wide aoe that require being in the center to dodge (and it was random if she would charge or aoe each time), did a the healing down debuff was every 30 seconds on a fairly short cast and she was the first appearance of a "heal to full to remove" debuff in game. If you did to much damage to fast you could end up having the adds spawn when the tank/healer needed to do something.

All of that combined made for a dungeon that was not worth the rewards it gave.

[Twilite]

Well before it was nerfed, a lot of people found it hard >.>
No idea why though

Pushing boss too hard would cause a billion dogs to spawn. Yeah, it sucks overgearing that place even for nerfed one.

Well ninja'd kinda.

[Hyouretsuzan]

Never knew anyone Rage Quit that easy dungeon before.. o.O

Wiping on the first boss 5 times usually was the reason they would leave.

[Akuryu]

And you thought people ragequit Pharos before... Lol

No dungeon marked as "(Hard)" has ever been truly difficult, and Pharos Sirius (Hard) will be no different. It will be the same difficulty as Fractal and Neverreap, and we will all be bored with it after a week.

[Radacci]

No dungeon marked as "(Hard)" has ever been truly difficult, and Pharos Sirius (Hard) will be no different. It will be the same difficulty as Fractal and Neverreap, and we will all be bored with it after a week.

uhm, well neverreap was annoying already the first time doing it - it still is.
fractal is still ok.
i never do them outside of roulette, though.

[Zohar_Lahar]

I hope Neverreap and Fractal Continuum stay in Expert Roulette.

[Radacci]

I hope Neverreap and Fractal Continuum stay in Expert Roulette.

i hope they remove neverreap, from the game. incredibly boring.

ehm, well i'm not holding my breath or anything, but they could add more dungeons, and keeping it a secret atm - like they haven't shown the new primal.

[FoxyAreku]

Pharos was the last really difficult dungeon this game had before it was nerfed. I'm actually hoping the hard mode will bring back memories for some.

[Belhi]

To be honest, the Hard Modes of dungeons have always been different enough in layout and encounters for it not to bother me that they are reusing terrain assets. Its not like its the exact same dungeon just with harder hitting mobs.

[DragonSlayer45]

Pharos Sirius was nerfed so hard, they removed trash mobs for whatever reason. I don't remember anything threatening about the trash other than the Elementals and letting Banish III go off.

I don't remember ever wiping to the first boss pre-nerf/overgearing it. Overgearing the first boss seems to have done more harm than good.

I had the odd group that would wipe to Zu occasionally because they thought somehow killing all the eggs was a great idea, and Tyrant was always an lolboss. It was Siren that was mostly causing the issues with groups. Lunatic Voice going off made it more rough on the healer than it needed to be and I'm not sure if the debuff was dispellable pre-nerf. Her outgoing damage hurt a lot more if I remember right.