Multiple difficulty scaling dungeons

[frostmagemari]

Well the fact that you even admit in passing mythic+ doesn't solve the difficulty issues your looking for a solution too should be enough for you to rethink the issue.

Nothing will solve every issue. Nothing will, no matter how close you get there will be some issue left. I'm just not someone who believes the perfect is the enemy of the good.

Mythic+ is a solution for people to gear alternatively to mythic raids they can't do for whatever logistical reason. Adopting it for the purpose of more difficult dungeons is folly.

The idea of any sort of progression.. whether raid, dungeon, pvp, etc.. is to get to the next tier of that progression system. Some enjoy raids, some enjoy smaller content and some enjoy both while some enjoy neither and would do neither.
If a balanced progression system can be created through small scale dungeons that through harder difficulty can get participants rewards worth the effort, XIV has taken a step to encouraging a longer lasting player base.

And as far as a line of thinking to not get anything done, really? I gave you your difficulty solution already. The problem is predictability, the solution is unpredictability.

No, you didn't. You really didn't. You gave a concept, a concept that is not possible under the current design structures of MMORPGs (especially one that uses the tank/dps/healer trinity for content) or any game style for that matter. Further more, any unpredictability system implemented would fall prey to a larger number of people getting frustrated with the system because content would just be a matter of RNG, and everything would be made less lethal in the encounter due to the inherent RNG baked into the monster's actions; couple that with the problems with the game's performance in general and you have your ticket to losing subs.