sync should be reworked

[Paladinleeds]

I feel that the sync should be reworked but not to get higher level skills, but, to match the difficulty when the dungeon/raid came out. For example, if you are synced level 50 and do the 24 raids, the 2 firsts of the series are way too easy because your ilvl is way too high for those dungeon. Level 50 means synced to ilvl 130 gear, while te maximum gear was 90 for the Labyrinth of the Ancients and 110 for Syrcus tower. Same thing happens when you do the story quest roulette, they fixed the cutscene problem for the new players, but there is no challenge for this big story dungeon, since the ilvl is way too high. The same thing happens for the dungeon/raids lvl 60, and already happens for the dungeons/raids lvl 70. The royal city of Rabanastre or the Ridorana Lighthouse are not challenging anymore since everyone is close to ilvl 400 now.

Although it means finding 23 like minded players, there's always the "minimum itemlevel" option. I think there's Discords available for various datacentres designed for that. But I see what you mean, would be nice to tighten the itemlevel on anything not Extreme/Savage, to help bring back some of the mechanics.

[AlliciaCapulet]

Although it means finding 23 like minded players, there's always the "minimum itemlevel" option. I think there's Discords available for various datacentres designed for that. But I see what you mean, would be nice to tighten the itemlevel on anything not Extreme/Savage, to help bring back some of the mechanics.

Yeah, minimum item level is too hard to do with duty finder anyway. What I have in mind is more the max item level that the patch of the raid was allowing, that way, you still have lots of room for mistakes, but you don't end up skipping 80% of the mecanics. Maybe it's just me, but I don't do many of the roulette just because I find them so boring, because there is just 0 challenge... I don't want to enter into a wipe city because nobody know the fight perfectly, but I don't also want to just skip every mecanics...

[PyurBlue]

It seems you don't recall how quickly things can die in low lvl instances. A lot of things die before you could do a full high lvl rotation.

Low or high level, it's not all that different. Even in current 70 and expert dungeons, good DPS will be able to kill mobs very quickly. If damage is scaled correctly then level 15 will still feel nearly the same as level 70.

Also some abilities would trivialise content. They're designed with a specific availability of abilities in mind. Some stuff would be simply op in low lvl content. That wouldn't make it more interesting. It's boring when things are too easy.

Which abilities? The most influential might be party wide buffs as they would combine to scale total party damage higher than intended, but these buffs can just be scaled down or capped. AoE abilities don't really make a difference so long as any AoE is available at a given level, an this is the case. THM for example can use AoE from Sastasha. High DPS abilities don't change anything if they're scaled down.

[Derio]

Why dungeons would take longer because the abilities would be nerfed. Its fine the way it is now

[KadaRemnant]

No thanks, it is fine as it is. I love the sync from this game because everything is balanced for all players, new and veterans. You have the unsync option too.

[NanaWiloh]

If you want your full rotation go in unsync'd that's why it exists.

[Kuroka]

If you want your full rotation go in unsync'd that's why it exists.

Sure if they add a unsync roulett.

[Zeromon]

Higher level abilities are fundamentally more powerful than lower level abilities. Even if Assize did no damage at lower levels it would still be extremely powerful, not to mention things like Thin Air (how do you nerf something that removes mana costs?), Excogitation, Chain Stratagem, etc. There are definitely ways to scale everything down, but a simple potency reduction isn't good enough. And because a potency reduction isn't good enough SE will have to do a lot of work to balance lower level dungeons to make them not unsync levels of trivial, and I don't think SE wants to do that.

I understand the want to not feel so kneecapped in lower dungeons when we get used to the end game skills. However, there will always be a compromise, and SE decided a simple unsync option is what they were going to do. I do think there is a way to allow higher level abilities to be used in a way that is balanced, but implementing that isn't trivial and will need a lot of internal research and testing to work. I don't think SE wants to create and balance new skills for lvl80 and then go back and balance them for every level below that too. Would I like this to exist? Yes. Will I defend SE for not doing it? Yes.

[MsQi]

Dozens of other games sync without changing ability sets. It's a matter of crunching numbers, testing and adjusting, like anything else in the game. The only issues are time and preference.

[Penthea]

Which abilities? The most influential might be party wide buffs as they would combine to scale total party damage higher than intended, but these buffs can just be scaled down or capped. AoE abilities don't really make a difference so long as any AoE is available at a given level, an this is the case. THM for example can use AoE from Sastasha. High DPS abilities don't change anything if they're scaled down.

Party-wide dps buffs can make an enormous difference in party dps. Can you imagine stacking embolden, with ast cards and bard songs together in the likes of Copperbell Mines? Stuff dies fast enough there as it is without all of that. Then couple that with the additional dps tools tanks and healers would have. Healer aoe can be very potent, especially from a whm.

Then there's all the defensive tools tanks would have. They would need virtually no healing on bosses because the fights are so short they could just chain all their defensive abilities. And they would be even shorter than they are now for the above reasons.

All this would just result in players chain pulling trash into bosses to make it interesting, because playing normally would be boring due to being op. I already experienced that in WoW due to very badly balanced content. It's hilarious at first but it gets old really fast. I don't miss it. I prefer playing content as it is intended to be played than to be so powerful that any stupid thing I press makes things fall over.