Can we get some sort of content gate for level 70 content?

[Mogurio]

The only "content gate" I would see acceptable is probably MSQs (and not for ALL the content) and your job quests. Every player should have an oportunity to play and learn how to use their respective jobs, if you don't want to deal with those players just don't play with random people.

[Alleo]

I dont want gates for the MSQ dungeons and stuff like that but some kind of barriers for extreme trials and savage content would be nice. Maybe make it so that you can only unlock the extreme version if you managed to defeat the right puppet. This way people at least know that anyone that joins their group in party finder did the minimum amount of damage needed. This would kinda help both sides imo. People will not be stuck with players that can barely do anything and are just carried through. They might get kicked out after some time but its still wasted time for everyone. And for the player itself its a good but still mandatory check point to see how good they truly are.

[Whocareswhatmynameis]

I'd rather have the lvl 70 dungeons be tuned to a point where if you had ice mages in your group you couldn't actually win, but we all know that won't happen because "muh casuals" AKA "lazyNAplayers". What we will probably get is 6 monsters blocked by a physical wall, that only opens when you kill said monsters, followed by a very easy boss.

[Dzian]

Yes and no. I can currently queue into The Vault with Ironworks gear and not a single Bard skill; not one. I wouldn't call that a content gate seeing as how level is largely irrelevant. Anyone who has experienced Ironworks gear in the Vault knows how fun that is. You should at least be required to wear appropriate gear.

Gear wise outside of tanks you can pretty.much wear 130 itonworks all the way to 60 without any issue at all. Tanks can make it to 58 without any difficulty.

If storm blood is remotely similar players in 270 stuff will probably find it will take them all the way to 70 without issues.

[Felis]

All what we need are some solo MSQ trials to be a little bit harder, so the players can't just faceroll them, but still easy enough if they read the skill descriptions and think a bit.

[Dalmacus]

All what we need are some solo MSQ trials to be a little bit harder, so the players can't just faceroll them, but still easy enough if they read the skill descriptions and think a bit.

The steps of faith in 2.5 was exact this. People complained too hard and it was nerf to the version we have now.

[Zojha]

The steps of faith in 2.5 was exact this. People complained too hard and it was nerf to the version we have now.

You can't 'really' expect people to read NPC dialogue, especially not the ones that only casually play for the story... wait!

[Felis]

The steps of faith in 2.5 was exact this. People complained too hard and it was nerf to the version we have now.

No. It is a group trial, not a solo trial where only your own skill get tested.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

The steps of faith in 2.5 was exact this. People complained too hard and it was nerf to the version we have now.

Actually. The issue was since veteran players had no motivation to do Steps of Faith more than once, many up and left as requeuing usually meant a faster run, especially as only one person gets the 30 penalty. This made getting access to Heavensward needlessly frustrating. The mistake wasn't difficulty, but not incentivizing it. The devs stuffed a sudden difficulty spike when alternatives were easier. So everyone did the latter. They need to commit from the beginning. Say Stormblood opens with dungeons on par with The Aery and Vault. Don't make any easier. That's your baseline.

[LalaRu]

The steps of faith in 2.5 was exact this. People complained too hard and it was nerf to the version we have now.

It was the only one duty of all the game where DPS had to use some brain, and it utterly failed. But dps people still today have the nerve of demanding tank and healer do their job. They gives "shameless" a new level of definition.