PLEASE have some sort of balance in PotD? Introduce some sort of checkpoint system.

[Lovescake]

9 hours? what were you doing? o.O
if you were to just speed to 50-100 it takes roughly less than an hour, to explore said floors maybe add an extra 30m-1hr
then 100+ we did 70 floors in three hours, with exploration

9 hours seems a bit excessive.

as for the question in hand you kind of answered it yourself, the point of it is to be hard.. 1-100 are story driven which is why there is checkpoints, 100+ is the "challenge floors" of which the rewards are given due to risk, you're meant to be scared of dying, you're meant to work around the playing field to avoid dying (hence pomadors etc) and giving checkpoints to this basically kills the challenge and means people will just farm the end floors for the high tier rewards which are meant to be there for not dying.

and the "its accessible as a sprout" excuse isnt even valid, firstly you need a 4 stack premade to do 100+, secondly you are given all of your job or classes tools inside the PotD, which implies you should be learning what to press whilst in there, if anything make it so you cant do 100+ without a job stone and thirdly the 100+ floors aren't exactly "efficient" for experience.

savage was already killed this tier, atleast let us have something, i mean, it's not hard but it's something with a high risk for "high gain" factor.