Why are 60 dungeons (Fractal, Neverreap, ARF) in 3.2 so much harder than 3.1?

[Ambaire]

So I log in at 4am after the servers come back up and go to do a Neverreap run with my drk, and when I get in, I see 'ilvl sync to 210'. Cool, I think, we'll be able to fly through this. Not. I'm in roughly i150 gear, (synced to 210) and I figure I can pull the first 5 mobs no problem; well, they hit me like mack trucks. 1200, 1500 damage hits when I know they were hitting for half that or less a few days ago. I'm down to 2k hp from 15k in an eyeblink and only by popping all my cds and the healer spamming heals on me do we survive.

I also did an ARF run just before this and the mobs there were also hitting like trucks.

What's with this? And not only that, but they are giving a quarter of the tomestones that they used to. 30 Eso vs 120 law from before. I thought it was going to be a straight 1:1 ratio to help gear up to i200 fast.

[LDR]

Ilvl Sync works down, not up; you cant go into there with say full i170 and suddenly gain stat boosts up to 210.
you go in as i150, you are i150
its a sync for when people go past i210 with the new gear


as for the tomes it is the same amount of eso as it was law, and the same lore as it was eso, are you sure your not confusing roulette bonuses.

[Mordoni]

Wasn't it this patch that tanks are meant to stack VIT instead of Strength? Not sure if it'd directly affect you DEF stats though, sorry.

[Sida]

The run few days ago that was so easier, was it with same gear level or some other better geared job? As previous poster said, the sync is a cap, it doesn't increase your equip, so if you went in with lower gear figuring it'll be synced up it's on you.

[Nutz]

As others said, ilvl sync is more properly an ilvl cap (as any of the 'sync' systems work in this game) so i150 is still i150 (at or near the minimum allowed for that dungeon if I recall). The sync is in place to prevent power creep making the place too much of a joke.