Patch seems rather... small

[Alleo]

You are right, the dev team intelligently designed this content around an ilvl of 210, following a patch where they were handing out 240 gear to everyone in a catch up patch.

Yoshi: The adjustments to the 2 new dungeons are already complete (note: this interview took place before TGS). Since the item levels are being refreshed, it may feel harder than the 3.3 dungeons at first. With the 3.3 dungeons, they were released when the item levels of players were already high, so it felt easier from the get go, but this time you'll be challenging it with a low item level and of course you'll be able to clear it, but we made it so you start to get what's going on as you go, and the clear times become faster and faster as your item level goes up. Please take careful steps on your first visit and go full-out.
Q. Is it risky to pull them all at the beginning?
A. I think it'll be dangerous (laughs) I'd prefer tanks to advance carefully.

riiiight

I went into the story dungeon completely unprepared, we were four new people. The tank pulled everything that she could, we did not die even once and we noticed the mechanics quite fast so, yeah I am not really sure whats so hard about the dungeon..The bib was a little harder but more because of some mechanics..yet I only died on the last boss. I can understand that the story dungeon is not that hard because people want to go through it..and finish the story but Hardmode Dungeons really should live up to their name..

I also dont agree that they should make those catch up dungeons. New people already get a lot of content to catch up..at least make the new instanced dungeon something that your veteran players can look forward too.

Alex normal was the only "harder" content and yet we were able to defeat A12 with 7 new people after one wipe..so I feel that they are still too easy.

I would not say that the patch felt small for me, and I at least have some more things to farm for but I am also not sure if this will be fun for the next few months..At least I somewhat liked the MSQ, Hildi was nice again, the other side quest was..alright..so yeah it was probably not the best patch ever but also not the worst.