Palace of the Dead is overall disappointing

[Destous]

So, it does tend to remind me of Diadem. You go around killing monsters, and every 10th floor you fight a stronger monster (a boss).

What happened after 30 floors, doing matched groups, is that the new strategy was to skip as many monsters as possible, killing only those necessary to open chests. The most popular strategy, just as it was in Diadem, was to ignore as much of the content as possible while still reaping the rewards you're seeking; this is because, just at it was in Diadem, it's the only way to cut through the immense tedium of the content.

Everything about PotD progression is obnoxious. Replaying the leveling process of your class isn't fun; it's just tedious. Finding silver chests isn't fun; this effectively gates your ability to progress via RNG rather than anything the player is doing. Why SE thought it'd be a good idea to have the amount of silver chests be RNG, and then on top of that have whether or not you get a + to your weapon/armor out of it also be RNG, is beyond me. This is just a slow and painful process.

But why is it a slow and painful process? What determines if a process is slow?

The rewards.

Going through 50 floors of this dungeon takes about 3 hours depending on RNG (love that RNG based progress). What you ultimately get out of it is a level 5 materia per run.

Beyond that, there's the weapon rewards. You get an i235 weapon, but acquiring it comes down to, again, RNG. You need to reach 30/30 on your aether gear, which means running the dungeon multiple times. So if you thought replaying the leveling process on fast forward was fun the first time, then you can look forward to resetting your data and doing it all over again, and most likely again after that, before you get your weapon.

The ability for SE to not understand the difference between fun and tedious has become astounding; this is further exemplified by talks of this dungeon receiving and additional 150 floors in the future. The idea of this dungeon being 300% longer makes me want to drive my head through my wall.

[Elijahshane]

I for one love deep dungeon. Traps. Monsters. Pomanders. There is so many new things that they gave us to experiment with. I enjoy getting to play my classes again and the joy of unlocking different skills at a fast pace. Yes it's a grind for the weapon. I've already done five clears and still don't have one but I enjoy the content enough that I don't mind. Overall I'd say deep dungeon is great!

[Shikiseki]

...and you couldn't post it in one of the already existing threads about qq-ing on new content?

[Destous]

...and you couldn't post it in one of the already existing threads about qq-ing on new content?

I checked the front page; there were no existing threads about PotD being disappointing.

Coming into a thread to snark about how it shouldn't exist doesn't accomplish anything other than derailing or crapping up the thread. If you don't like a thread, or think it shouldn't exist, you can ignore it. That's the point of the format.

[Shikiseki]

I checked the front page; there were no existing threads about PotD being disappointing.

Coming into a thread to snark about how it shouldn't exist doesn't accomplish anything other than derailing or crapping up the thread. If you don't like a thread, or think it shouldn't exist, you can ignore it. That's the point of the format.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...h-Deep-Dungeon

hit New Posts (all) - was on first page

[Blanchimont]

I too think that the Palace of the Dead is disappointing, but I've only gone up to floor 30. The only reward worth mentioning is an alternate way to get a high level weapon instead of having to go through a month of grinding tomes or doing savage raids. However, the Palace of the Dead never feels like I'm really making any progress. The silver chests often leave me with disappointment as I get nothing from them. The only reward I get from clearing 10 floors is a tiny amount of tomes. The only thing that feels like it is making the Palace of the Dead hard are the exploding traps and slimes because they one hit kill you or almost one hit kill you.

[TiaHariberux3]

Calls it slow meanwhile ppl got their weapons after 1-2 days you can do it solo to have a bit of a challenge. Also they will add more floors compared to diadem its way better since you can do it alone level alts/test skills on alts etc. Did you ever thought about not rushing it all the time? no one expect you later to clear all 200 floors in 1 day. People go in full party with a healer faceroll then complain GG. If you dont need to level classes etc. just go do nidhogg to get ur weapon but oh yea that requires you time too.

[Maxwell]

I like PotD at the moment. Yes it can be boring when you try to spam it, but i think that we only have the basic ground work to play with currently. This place has a lot of potential and i hope SE will realize it in future updates.

[Yuella]

I like it for leveling jobs. Daily leveling + trial roulette + PotD 1-10 spam = fast leveling

[Dewslam]

I like it for leveling jobs. Daily leveling + trial roulette + PotD 1-10 spam = fast leveling

I really want to use it for leveling, but it seems almost impossible to do. I constantly run into groups who will gladly wipe the whole run because they didn't get enough items they wanted, people who will kick you just because they died when they ran three rooms away, and other insane BS. It just winds up taking way more time to finish the bloody thing than grinding out an equal amount of exp with leves does.