More 8 man dungeons?

[Gemina]

I just want unique dungeons and I don't see that happening with the 4 man standard.


Things like parties splitting to get things done and such, going in separate directions, or activating panels at the same time to open doors, things like that.

This is actually interesting. If an 8-man dungeon was to automatically make two 4-man parties, this could be a thing. If there are no forced cut scenes, made to be optional, give an alternative way to gear up, have an min ilv requirement, and designed correctly; 8-man dungeons could very well be new content. They could at least try it, and see how the player reaction is.

The way I see it is everyone starts up together, takes down some trash mobs and are forcibly split to engage their own set of trash mobs, and a mini boss that blocks further progression. The mini boss is basically just one mob with a high HP pool; nothing too threatening. The path splits are also random each time so neither group A or B will know exactly where they'll end up even when doing multiple runs, and on multiple splits. The paths would have to be balanced though, so big pulls would be out. We don't want to have one group waiting too long for the other. After the mini bosses, the two parties rendezvous for the actual boss which can be made to be more difficult. Two chests drop for each group similar to the three for alliance raids for each boss, and I say go ahead and put three bosses in these dungeons. Average clear time would need to be around 25-30 minutes.

I'd say to try this content out by making it an optional quest with a small storyline and a nice little reward. They were willing to make a 4-man EX with Rathalos in the collaboration event, so I see no reason to not give this a go. If they did have 8-man content like this, I would love to do it. I would also do it repeatedly if needed to work towards a mount/emotes/glamours, all of those things we just love.

[Canadane]

I just want unique dungeons and I don't see that happening with the 4 man standard.


Things like parties splitting to get things done and such, going in separate directions, or activating panels at the same time to open doors, things like that.

This happens in BA, which has by far the best raid design since coil.
I hope they have more things like this.

[Noodle_Trinidad]

Do you know any other dungeons 4 man, 8 man raids, trials or any other content that has unskippables so far? Don't worry, I'll wait for your answer. I didn't think you'd come up with one. Take the L.

The original Aurum Vale, Cutter’s Cry and, correct if im mistaken on this one, Dzhaemel Stronghold were all 8 man dungeons that didn’t really have cutscenes. They were pretty much just full dungeons scaled for 8-man with CC even having your party to split up between areas.

More than certain they could bring those designs up to the modern 2.0+ battle system and get something of note, hell bring back the bonus chests for speedrunning, killing certain and/or enemies and the like back to make dungeon glamour acquisition easier.

[Elkanah]

The original Aurum Vale, Cutter’s Cry and, correct if im mistaken on this one, Dzhaemel Stronghold were all 8 man dungeons that didn’t really have cutscenes. They were pretty much just full dungeons scaled for 8-man with CC even having your party to split up between areas.

More than certain they could bring those designs up to the modern 2.0+ battle system and get something of note, hell bring back the bonus chests for speedrunning, killing certain and/or enemies and the like back to make dungeon glamour acquisition easier.

Yes I'm aware of how 1.0's dungeons worked. And as much as I'd like to go into detail about how those dungeons worked too (being a 1.0 player myself), it's kind of farfetch'd for the devs to re-implement that back into the game. I actually liked old Ifrit and Titan as opposed to the newer version we have in story mode and trial/extreme now. I also enjoyed some of the older dungeons as they were. I also liked hamlet and I sure as hell don't see that coming back anytime soon.

[SenorPatty]

Never heard of a "huge" demand for 8man dgn. A lot of different styled 4man or harder 4man for certain but never 8man anything.

If anything, the 8man content I've seen people, myself included, clamoring for is a return to the style of early coil and early alexander. Basically big map styled 8man raid.

[MistakeNot]

There seems to be a huge desire for 8 man dungeons that are not raids.

What's the difference? Other than the name?

[linay]

What's the difference? Other than the name?

Presumably difficulty and reward.

[Doozer]

I'm always on board for more dungeons. Some variety would be nice, so having more players involved could make things different.

[Dragon_punch]

If done right 8-man dungeons could be pretty cool. Also on that same note I'd also like to see more harder 4-man content like the Rathalos trial.

[Ceasaria]

Dangerous 8 man dungeons inspired by PotD and BA would be great !