Only one dungeon in odd numbered patches

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Interesting bit of information that was brought up in MrHappy's podcast. Apparently, dungeons will be reduced to one in odd numbered patches due to additional content. My best guess is PotD's overall success for speed leveling has made the devs see dungeons as redundant. Either way, this could be good if PotD gets more mechanics to it or this supposed "brand new, never before seen," content pans out.

As far timing of patches post Stormblood goes Yoshi-P said they plan to keep the 3 – 3½ month cadence they have currently been doing. He said it seems to be a good rhythm for the players which keeps them from either feeling like they run out of things to do too quickly or feel overwhelmed with content. It is also a good cycle for the developers because they can consistently put out high quality content without killing themselves. The current plan for what these patches will contain is odd numbered patches will have one dungeon and some other new content while even numbered patches will have two new dungeons and QOL improvements.

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[Theodric]

If it ensures that we see more meaningful content elsewhere then I have no problem with it.

[Riardon]

If it ensures that we see more meaningful content elsewhere then I have no problem with it.

Well while I do agree they said the same during 3.X when they reduced them to 2 from 3 and we didn't really get very meaningful content.
PoTD was a success albeit it was boring content. Yes you lvl up faster there but it's more boring and tedious than normal dungeons.
If the new PoTD will be better I do not know.
Diadem was a huge failure. The reworked version came too late and it was marginally improved.
What I want to say is that we heard this before.
Roulettes with only 1 dungeon will be super duper boring.

[MomomiMomi]

Good bye, you won't be missed.

[SendohJin]

so expert roulette on those patches is going to be just one dungeon awesome (hopefully they just add it to the 2 previous ones from the even patches lol).

[Naunet]

so expert roulette on those patches is going to be just one dungeon awesome (hopefully they just add it to the 2 previous ones from the even patches lol).

Yeah they better change how they organize expert roulette...

[Kaonis]

so expert roulette on those patches is going to be just one dungeon awesome (hopefully they just add it to the 2 previous ones from the even patches lol).

Considering they did this to give us Diadem, I am not holding my breath for anything spectacular.

[Archvile78]

Eeesh...not sure how i feel about this. SE's never been too good at creating lasting side contents, beside PoTD (and obviously the 24-mans/dungeons/raids)

[usalia]

Eeesh...not sure how i feel about this. SE's never been too good at creating lasting side contents, beside PoTD (and obviously the 24-mans/dungeons/raids)

the 24 man "raids" are not lasting they are forced just like older dungeons. take the exp/gold/tomes from potd or make it so you cant speed run it (must kill all monsters) and we will see how lasting potd will be.

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

the 24 man "raids" are not lasting they are forced just like older dungeons. take the exp/gold/tomes from potd or make it so you cant speed run it (must kill all monsters) and we will see how lasting potd will be.

That would kill all content though if you take out rewards, not just dungeons.