Old dungeons are extremely quick and easy now

[Wilford111]

Is it just me, or are old dungeons kind of a joke now? In almost all of the dungeons under level 70 that I've run since the start of 5.0, enemies' health bars have been dropping extremely fast and I don't know why. Anyone else notice this?

I have a theory as to why. Could be because the tanks no longer have the damage reduction from tank stance, as well as healers who have an aoe nuke that no longer has such a long cast time. And it seems the devs didn't rebalance older content to account for this. That's just me though.

Or did everyone suddenly become really good at their rotations? Nah that couldn't be it

[Raldo]

I felt this as well.

Whenever they do an expansion job-rebalance, they seem to try very hard to make sure no one gets weaker due to the changes. This builds up as each expansion does its own rebalance, and anything that's several expansions behind are way easier now. It is also worth mentioning that a lot of jobs' AOE kits have been improved (or at the very least, unchained to the quickly-depleted TP bar), so that really speeds up killing trash as well.

As far as rebalancing old content goes, I suspect their opinions on older content being faster/easier is probably "That's fine by us."

[RowanLauron]

It's a combination of our job changes plus higher ilvl syncs.

[VargasVermillion]

I've noticed this myself, normally this kinda thing happens the most with old endgame stuff, idk i feel like old leveling content should be buffed at least a little bit. The original intent behind level sync was so this kinda thing didn't happen. It's kinda sad to think only 70-80 content has any kind of stake to it as it were.

[Luzifusy]

check 5.0 patch notes. almost every skill has gotten an boost in damage dealt.

[fogboundturtle]

but think about the people leveling who may not have the same gear level as you do.

[Hatstand]

I ran a level 50 roulette today as SCH. Everyone was beefy enough that my fairy could solo heal them, assuming I rotated her cooldowns (I literally did not push a non-fairy related heal button throughout the whole dungeon). As such I was able to devote 100% of my attention to the Art of War/Ruin spam. It was boring as all heck but I assume the extra damage sped thing said up decently.

[Xia_Thas]

It’s a combination of things. One of which is new expansion balances are geared more towards current content. Older content will feel more and more dated as we go forward because we aren’t playing the same game as back then. I’m sure if you had a full group of new players with average gear it’d be about as difficult as intended. But 4 lv 80s running through content they know like the back of their hands? Speed run time.

End of the day this just means newer players can get through older content faster and catch up with everyone playing the new hotness.

[Ultimatecalibur]

The major factors are likely the major increase in tank damage output and everyone getting AoE combos.

Tanks now have a lot more strength due to all of the Tank accessories now having strength built in and they are dealing full damage all the time. This is a major increase in output on top of all the increases in potency.

[LalafellDown]

I love it. Not really interested in getting the run 10001 dungeons achievement.