Level 60 unsynced dungeons need adjusting. (Including the two newest)

[Culfinrandir]

Something just occurred to me - why not have three versions of each dungeon? *Read this next bit carefully*.

Each dungeon would have three levels of difficulty, equating to normal, hard & difficult, in addition to being a story or hard dungeon. For example, Gubal Hard, which was just released, would have normal (what we have), hard & difficult. The difficulty setting is purely related to HP & other stats of the enemies plus the amount of enemies encountered; no new mechanics.

What this would allow is for those who get bored of running the same dungeons for months without variation to be able to adjust the difficulty of the runs & get better rewards for more difficult runs. The level could be selected in the DF, or if the devs baulked at that it could be via PF only but still be a roulette so you don't know *which* expert dungeon you're getting in hard mode.

It should be minimal work to implement something like this & would make a big difference to content provision.

[Alleo]

They are barely managing to give us two different dungeons per patch and also said that they cant make three different versions of Alex raids because they lack the manpower. So I am quite sure that this would not need only minimal work. And just making them have bigger HP pools does not make a dungeon better. It makes it even more tedious if it doesnt have some new mechanics.

Really why cant they just make the story mode dungeon like it is right now or maybe a little harder so that anyone can finish the story and make the Hardmode Dungeon much harder? Dont put those in the same roulette so people dont need to do them and we could have at least one dungeon to look forward too..why need to gear up if the new dungeons in the next patch does not need at least a nice amount of iLvl?

[Kaurie]

They are barely managing to give us two different dungeons per patch and also said that they cant make three different versions of Alex raids because they lack the manpower. So I am quite sure that this would not need only minimal work. And just making them have bigger HP pools does not make a dungeon better. It makes it even more tedious if it doesnt have some new mechanics.

Really why cant they just make the story mode dungeon like it is right now or maybe a little harder so that anyone can finish the story and make the Hardmode Dungeon much harder? Dont put those in the same roulette so people dont need to do them and we could have at least one dungeon to look forward too..why need to gear up if the new dungeons in the next patch does not need at least a nice amount of iLvl?

I like the idea of multiple difficulties.

Based off Square's track record, I feel that this is out of their reach, because they make everything more complicated than it needs to be (see LoV, Aquariums, glamour prisms, and so on.).

I am sure that they could develop an engine to create multiple difficulties that could then be applied to their dungeons. Creating the engine at first would be time consuming, but then the use of it once completed would be minimal. That said, I am not a software developer, and I could be wrong about this. I am mostly going off what I see in WoW, where Blizzard has multiple difficulties and seems to have a system that can blanket add mechanics/difficulties to an entire dungeon (Mythic+). The way it is presented makes it seem like it is what I said above - rather than them having created 13 different difficulties per dungeon.

[raela]

Really why cant they just make the story mode dungeon like it is right now or maybe a little harder so that anyone can finish the story and make the Hardmode Dungeon much harder? Dont put those in the same roulette so people dont need to do them and we could have at least one dungeon to look forward too..why need to gear up if the new dungeons in the next patch does not need at least a nice amount of iLvl?

Sounds like ARC (story mode outside of roulettes), which was a pain in the ass for people trying to advance their story after the initial rush.

[aesteval]

Have never seen this be an issue in a dungeon before, except like Haukke Manor and Stone Vigil. Are those the ones you meant? I don't recognize the skill names per se. Even then, the penalty for not getting the one you need to target down first is small compared to that in WoW (as I said, you'll be feared into another pack of mobs, potentially and probably wiping the group).

I remember it in Amdapoor Keep and Snowcloak specifically. But yeah, not much of a penalty tied to it.

[Elim]

Someone recorded himself spamming one move for an entire dungeon and still clearing it.

FF14 lacks in that department. Always has, and most likely always will. SWTOR is inferior in everyway except for that, as one or two dungeons every few patches are tuned to be a little bit harder. And by that I mean you cant just spam 1 1 1 1 1 for a clear.

[ADVSS]

eh, i think theyre fine, will be an utter joke when we get 270 gear, but then i mean dungeons seem to have way more bearing and meaning when theyre levelling content, than they do as end game tome grind dailies. I mean we used to get 3 a patch, now its 2 and i wouldnt be surprised if 4.0 drops it down to 1 a patch. Being that tomestone gear trumps anything to come out of their chests, unlike in levelling dungeons when at the time, its the best you can get, it really is kind of silly. So what exactly is the point of these post 60 dungeons? I can tell you Difficulty isnt the word were looking for, its 'Daily'.