Please adjust old content for unsync

[Cabalabob]

It’s annoying that there are some dungeons and trials that you cannot do solo unsynced no matter how much you outlevel the content because of mechanics that can’t be handled solo.

It’s silly that we can solo Titan ex but not Titan hard because when he gaols you in hard it resets the instance, it should be changed to work the same as ex where it’s a timed bomb. Or stone vigil hard where it’s impossible to get past the second boss solo because one cannon isn’t enough when at level 70 I should really be able to kill it myself without a cannon.

Yes, I could do these things synced, or ask a friend to come and help me, but I don’t really want to waste my time in a duty queue for something I should easily be able to solo if not for gimmicky mechanics and I don’t want to waste my friends time running old content they get nothing out of for my glamour purposes just to get me past one thing.

[KaivaC]

How would you rework it then? For Titan Hard and Stone Vigil Hard, how could you rework those mechanics that it wouldn't affect synced runs when players try to run these unsynced?

[kikix12]

How would you rework it then? For Titan Hard and Stone Vigil Hard, how could you rework those mechanics that it wouldn't affect synced runs when players try to run these unsynced?

A good start would be to remove all "instant death" effects with damage that's sufficient to guarantee a kill on an in-level player. Ultima from Ballad getting their fifth stack?! Instead of instant-death, have the attack deal serious damage. Lvl70 may survive it (or not), lvl50 won't. And yes, it is instant death, despite there being comments that it's supposedly 10 000 damage on next attack. I did "survive it" only for the screen to blacken out and the instance to restart anyway when I attempted it. Ultima at least can be soloed by a summoner, though it would take quite some time leaving all the killing to the summon. But Titan Hard cannot, seeing as its Gaol won't hit a summon, ever.

In the case of Gaol and similar imprisonment effects, just have it blow-up dealing massive damage if there are no players alive to destroy it. Again, the end result is identical for synced players (heck, I never, ever, saw anyone stay in a Gaol for more than a couple seconds anyway in Titan Hard), while it would make any class be able to solo it with a high enough level and base stats, as in, a level comparable to where other dungeons of similar grade are soloable.

[croumir]

How would you rework it then? For Titan Hard and Stone Vigil Hard, how could you rework those mechanics that it wouldn't affect synced runs when players try to run these unsynced?

Pretty simple, for instance in Stone Vigil adjust the cannon power to the player level (in dungeon) divided by the number of party member.

I know it is an old thread. But I ran into the same "problem" while doing this particular dungeon. You can queue indeed, but I understand it can be frustrating to lose 15 min because of a stupid boss hidden behind a mechanic wall while the others are not.

[TaleraRistain]

Pretty simple, for instance in Stone Vigil adjust the cannon power to the player level (in dungeon) divided by the number of party member.

I know it is an old thread. But I ran into the same "problem" while doing this particular dungeon. You can queue indeed, but I understand it can be frustrating to lose 15 min because of a stupid boss hidden behind a mechanic wall while the others are not.

I was trying to farm lumber running SV Hard myself one night a few months back and the biggest irritation on the turtle was the damned NPCs. You failed if they died and they were tissue paper. Haven't tried it recently to see if that's still the case.

[SuperZay]

A8S was annoying to farm unsynched because with 4.0 changes to accuracy the boss now often miss lv70 tanks and don't remove their stacks which leads to instawipe during Gavel. With lv80 tanks it'll be impossible to complete.

[Tsumdere]

You can solo both of these unsynced though...??

You just nuke Titan in like 5 GCDs and Stone Vigil HM second boss is annoying but doable. I know I've done it. Whole run took like 20 minutes because second boss is a time sink.

[Gemina]

You can solo both of these unsynced though...??

You just nuke Titan in like 5 GCDs and Stone Vigil HM second boss is annoying but doable. I know I've done it. Whole run took like 20 minutes because second boss is a time sink.

For fights like this, the time sink is so high it isn't even worth it to do solo anymore. If you need the clear for whatever reason, then just run it synced with others.

I learned this in FFXI when I soloed the Guardian Statue for my RDM pimp hat. It literally took around over an hour because you have to DoT it to death while keeping your distance running laps around the dungeon, but not so far that you lose aggro, and the statue heads off to despawn during which it regens the health that took you so long to deplete at an extremely high rate. Every server tick would erase about 20 minutes of work. Problem was, when I finally did it, I didn't have him targeted when the DoTs killed him so I didn't get the item I needed. It was all for nothing. There were about three other players who watched me do it, and I let them know the bad news. They invited me into their group, and we proceeded to kill the Statue in about two minutes. Done.

Soloing things that you normally shouldn't be able to can be fun if it is simply for bragging rights. But I feel it also requires the boss to be a threat outside of a mechanic that is not meant to be handled solo. As an example I soloed Aurum Vale with my SCH at level 54 in non-augmented IW gear. It took me multiple tries because you have to do things like keep yourself healed, cause significant damage to the bosses, not let too many stacks of Golden Lung build up, and also have good timing so your are not interrupted by an auto attack when cleansing it. When I finally did it, I just barely beat the 90-minute timer. It was a ton of fun though figuring out how to do everything just right.

For something like Titan's gaols in hard mode, it's the only way he is capable of winning. If your DPS is so high that he doesn't even get a chance to cast it, then it's not what I would call a challenging solo encounter.

[Krokov]

Personally I just wish they make it so that regular mobs in unsync dungeons would drop items if you don't them to drop Gil fine but man would be nice when farming mobs that only appear in certain Dungeons and other places. It's would be easier just being able to farm them that way. In my opinion it's just a little silly that you can only get items from the bosses.

[Zarabeth]

This is what friends are for...