Raids and dungeons still relevant after expansion?

[XenabelleS]

Having just came back since Dec 2013, I'm going to be seeing Heavensward for the first time this weekend. So I'll still be in the queue and if it is too slow, ask my FC for a hand.

I see a good number of sprouts on my server which means either new player, or returning player who has not completed 2.55 so I imagine some of them are also like me.

But I gotta give SE credit - their system really does help keep older content alive. I haven't experienced much of an issue running the post 2.0 trials and dungeons (Titan though can suck it). In other games, I'd have no shot at doing these.

[Core1019]

The Crystal Tower is still ran regularly. It can take a while, but Wondrous Tales alone, plus ingredients for Anima Steps seem to encourage people to queue up. I expect the same to be true for the Sky Pirate raids, and who knows, maybe at some point we get a Alliance Raid Roulette.

Alexander may be harder, but I still see people running Bahamut once in a while, so I bet that may also still be a thing. EX runs may be slow queues in duty finder, you will be the bane of mentors, but those are best done with a party finder anyways. I hope they never give strong incentives to do EX trials, though. I don't have any fun doing those.

I really hope they do give incentives to do ex primals/savage raids, those are the only decent part of the game.

[savageink]

I would like to see a raid roulette with whatever the current tomestones will be at the least. Maybe not for Savage modes, but at least incentivize the normal ones so people will run them.

[Recklessfun]

Lol I hope that once I've been playing more and getting to do all the content that I'll eventually know what all u guys are talking about lol. Alot of stuff I don't know or got to know yet.

[KisaiTenshi]

That's just the idiocy by part of the developers of using the target's hp to determine the actions of the target. And no, Ifrit extreme is not difficult unsynched. Other fights that have automatic one shot mechanics have to be done, over all everything is just take it, heal through it.

The only way they'll make old content relevant again (Alexander, Void Arc, HW primals, and AAR stuff), though for a week or two, is by adding some random glamour/needed item for new relic in that content. Just how they been doing for the past 4 years.

That was the point of "light farming" for Zodiac/Anima weapons. Do the old content, harder old content more valuable.

I think the way to "solve" this in some respect is to create a version for Armor as well. Each armor part adds "light" that comes from specific dungeons. So the body armor and leg armor comes from the SB content (eg the hardest stuff,) the Head, Belt, and Boots come from the HW content. The accessories come from the 2.x content. The content has to be run on "minimum ilevel" with a full party, or duty-finder'd queued solo (eg, can't pre-form a party just to make it easier.) Unlike the weapon which ends up with a lot of time-sinking/resource-sinking stages, the armor is just time-sinking.

[Rinuko]

Hopefully they add exp in lv60 dungeons and not wait like they did with lv50 when we got HW

[LalaRu]

Raid relevance:
Old raids will be relevant as Coil became after Heavensward settled. History repeats.

Duty queues for dps:
I don't think there will be higher queues on DF, when we have potd now. Maybe the 61+ stuff gets more busy because potd (still) doesn't cover it.

[ZhaneX]

No one will does or will do any old raids except as unsynced steamrolls.

[Recklessfun]

So when I hit lvl 60 what is the main things I should run? Of course I'll be going with story missions to 70 but I would like to do stuff on the side as well.

[LalaRu]

So when I hit lvl 60 what is the main things I should run?

Personally, my order of importance is Job Quests, then MSQ, then side quests, then anything else if the previous level locked.