Should Unsynced content give rewards?

[Vazoth]

Yes.

What's the fun in a raised level cap if I have to get rid of all my new new abilities and my new rotation everytime I want to run something that isn't level 60.

Years from now when we're level 80 or whatever I'd rather not have to lose years worth of abilities just to go get a pony

You're missing a vital point here.
Even, if the levelcap is significantly higher than the old content requires, you're not supposed to level all the way and only then engage old dungeons for the first time. Ideally you should do all the content on level, cause that's how the developers intended it. Besides, every item you can achieve unsynced at the moment is obviously completely optional (you reach the level cap without it just fine). So, if you really want a specific item you should be willing to do whatever it takes. If that's a synced primal on extreme, so be it.
As I mentioned in my previous post. I find it more than reasonable to cut down the farming, by increasing the drop chance, because let's face it, farming is just a poor method to keep the players busy. A new player catching up is busy enough without any specific item farm. However, the original challenges should be kept, because they are part of what prepares new players for the current endgame content.

Yet, I can see why you would want to run old content unsynced, with better stats and all your new abilities availabe. It's interesting to see how your character has grown. But how do you see growth? You need a comparison, meaning you must have done the content with a weaker character at some point and this is exactly what should be rewarded with items.

The unsync function should just be a tool to play around with older content, not to lessen the difficulty of certain achievements.

There are also sync functions, which go the other way, meaning they scale the content to your current level, aiming to maintain the original difficulty, without restricting your character. I've seen games with this system, which only grant items, if you run the content on your current level and for me that's the right choice. Might be interesting, if Square Enix implemented this system.

[Moomba33]

I've had lots of fun farming these fights unsynched with my FC. There's only 5 of us playing right now so it's been great being able to go do them on our own without needing to recruit others.

If you could only get the rewards with a synced group I'd wager many new players would simply never get them at all. I can't imagine trying to recruit a group to run Ramuh Ex synced an expansion or two from now, even with the unsync option it's rare for me to see it on the PF compared to other fights.

The only content I would be fine with leaving synced forever is stuff like Second Coil Savage which exists solely for the challenge. I'm kinda surprised they allow unsync (and added echo? Haven't gotten it unlocked myself) for that honestly.

[RainDurell]

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You summed it up WAY better than I did! Basically, what you said is the point i'm trying to make.

[Ashkendor]

EX primals haven't been "balanced" for awhile now. Most of them were disgustingly easy before we even got 60 cap.

It's outdated content. If you couldn't run it unsynced, there'd just be more of a market to sell it.

[AnaviAnael]

I think they should. Otherwise, (at least for me) there isn't much point in having the unsync feature. I like doing some of the dungeons for desynth gear.

[Miyu20]

I agree with you OP. Nobody wants to do old Primals anymore even though the party leader is skilled and all 7 people are on farm status (and I don't mean fake PF farm status, I mean real farm) I guess that's what Duty Finder is for eh OP?

Even if DF queue might take an extremely long time... It would be faster than waiting in PF and possibly never getting even one person to party with you.

[Sove92]

SCoB Savage shouldn't give you the achievements if you do it unsynced. In fact, it shouldn't have been unsyncable at all.

[Fynlar]

SCoB Savage is the only thing I think should have been left synced by requirement due to the fact it was implemented purely as a challenge mode for bragging rights.

[Jim_Berry]

Would be nice. Lots of people would probably spam all content, even Coil.

[chibaby]

if the que time wasn't long in the df I would run them synced