Three times in two days, I've had someone bail at Edda so they wouldn't have to do 41-50 all over again, and in luckily, we've been able to make it, but it puts everyone in a very precarious predicament when someone leaves like that. The first two times we had someone come in at the last minute and we were fine, but this time we only had like 10 minutes left and couldn't risk waiting around so we went for it. One DPS went down, then I went down and the PLD finished her off with 100 hp left.

As much as I hate this guy for ditching, I honestly don't blame him. There's just too much range surrounding those silver chests and having to repeat 1-40 again to get back to where you were is a whole lot of work. So, I propose this.

Get rid of the gear syncing and level to floor correlation and just make the RNG a flat rate. You might have some chests not upgrade at lower levels, but you'll have a much better chance of them upgrading at the higher levels, which is causing a lot of frustration. Also, have an automatic upgrade at every boss. This will assuredly stop people from bailing because they don't want to repeat 1-40.