Time to stop making synced content

[Puremallace]

You care about the gear at all? It can be synced to ilvl 10 for what people could care because all they care about is the challenge. I do agree however that new content synced so low is just strange lol

[Baxcel]

I dont get where OP is getting Unreal is Extreme upsynced to 80.. Yoshi P said himself when it was announced that it would be content between Hard an Extreme.. he said it would be for all players at lv80 to attempt to clear a lv80 buffed version of old primals..

If you read into that thinking that it was going to be super endgame lv80 ilvl500+ thats your fault as it was clearly mentioned it wouldn't be that.

This is a mini game style content with rewards that are leaving.. they want to give as many people a chance to get them before their gone and having the ilvl set to end of 5.0 range is the best way to do that.

[Sabrenn]

I dont get where OP is getting Unreal is Extreme upsynced to 80.. Yoshi P said himself when it was announced that it would be content between Hard an Extreme.. he said it would be for all players at lv80 to attempt to clear a lv80 buffed version of old primals..

If you read into that thinking that it was going to be super endgame lv80 ilvl500+ thats your fault as it was clearly mentioned it wouldn't be that.

This is a mini game style content with rewards that are leaving.. they want to give as many people a chance to get them before their gone and having the ilvl set to end of 5.0 range is the best way to do that.

From the last live letter (fan translation)

Y "The unreal trials will be a new battle category, but it will be more of a "revival" of the old fights"
Y "Now, everyone enters these fights unsynced and it takes seconds. If you sync down it feels off because of limitations to your jobs, so this time it will be the other way, the boss will upsync to us"
Bosses will rotate with patches
Y "I tested shiva of course "Wait, back then raid wide damage wasn't a cast?", i had totally forgotten. There will be a few things that will feel fresh, especially for players who didn't experience the fights back then"

[Baxcel]

From the last live letter (fan translation)

Yah i see that but he's didnt mention Ex or HM in that live letter, but in the first one where he mentioned it he did say it would be between those difficulties.. ?

[Sabrenn]

Oh yeah, they're also adding it to the raid finder
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...d#unreal_shiva

AFAIK, they don't add casual content to the raid finder.

[Baxcel]

Oh yeah, they're also adding it to the raid finder
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...d#unreal_shiva

AFAIK, they don't add casual content to the raid finder.

Well yeah its above Hard but not as hard as Extreme.. i don't know where they would put it besides raidfinder?

Since they'll be swapped out by patch it wouldn't be able to have its own tab on duty finder.. in raid finder they can't just add the new one each time..

[Sabrenn]

Well yeah its above Hard but not as hard as Extreme.. i don't know where they would put it besides raidfinder?

Since they'll be swapped out by patch it wouldn't be able to have its own tab on duty finder.. in raid finder they can't just add the new one each time..

In the trials tab? I mean that's where normal modes and hard modes go normally, only extremes, savages and ultimates go into the raid finder. Might be a first if it's something in between.

They said they will add the new one each time. That's what happens when they add new extremes after all, they remove the last one and add the new one. Except this time it won't go to the trials tab, it'll just disappear (which is a shame imo)

edit: I just realize what you mean, like they can't add a new "Unreal" tab each time. Yeah, I guess so....... But then why put it in raid finder and not under trials? Not sure

[Baxcel]

In the trials tab? I mean that's where normal modes and hard modes go normally, only extremes, savages and ultimates go into the raid finder. Might be a first if it's something in between.

They said they will add the new one each time. That's what happens when they add new extremes after all, they remove the last one and add the new one. Except this time it won't go to the trials tab, it'll just disappear (which is a shame imo)

well yeah thats what I ment.. auto corrected to "cant".. the old one will be deleted from Raid finder and the new one added..

So if the next one is Titan.. Shiva will be deleted and His will be placed in Raid instead..

It would be a waste of a tab to add a Unreal to thr duty finder when it would only ever have 1 combat option in it everytime.

[Elkanah]

Honestly, wouldve been fine if they had at least synced it to 450 or 460. We're at about 490-500 atm, so it seems reasonable. I'm more curious about what the prizes will be. That's gonna be the real incentive. If there's nothing worth it (mounts/minions, hair styles, what not), I'm not sure how this is gonna bring players into the content. So I am rather curious what the items will be in this pool

[Wyakin]

They aren't being punished. It's a mini-game.

It's honestly quite funny seeing people quaking in their boots about not being able to ilvl cheese their way through SHIVA EX (one of the easiest EXs ever). If you have ilvl 500 gear, you should be able to smash this Unreal Trial synced or not because you SHOULD know your rotations much more than the average player.

You think I’m quaking in my boots cos I can item level cheese the fight? Mate, I have the gear I have because I’m able to clear the fights. I’m i500 because I can’t actually play the game. I also cleared shiva extreme when that was current tier content. My anger is the fact that my gear and melds are pointless outside the very raid I got it from. I’ve said this many many times. I’m sick of item level sync content. Bozja, synced. Expert, synced. Unreal, synced. It’s dumb. Why even bother getting gear at this point?