I give up on Solo Deep Dungeons

[Kandraxx]

I don’t even know why they don’t just let you log back. It’s not like you could gain anything from a deliberate disconnect, because there’s a clock still ticking away in the background and the clock is usually the deciding factor on the latter floors. Even if you did it for some super awkward moves like trying to avoid a patrolling mob, it would be a feat to figure out the timing of the DC, so you don’t get actually killed in your ‘logout’ window.

Furthermore it’s not like FFXIV DD would be some uber competitive esports content the whole gaming world cares about, even if you somehow cheated with DCs, in the end you’d just cheat yourself out of another activity to strife for.

Couple this with the fact that the only interesting floors in DD are 81-99 in HoH and somewhat around 161+ in PotD and everything before is a snooze fest for a seasoned DD runner, that basically doesn’t give you anything outside of a couple loot chest which are mostly trash like 5 year old endgame materia or fireworks, but it still takes hours to get to these floors.

Because of this and the disconnect problem I suggest that they should just let you start from floor 51 in HoH and 101 in PotD, while it still gives credit towards a solo/achievement run, once you have a certain number of high floor entries racked up.
There is no excuse like: “oh no, you have to start from floor 1 or it’s not hard”, because, it isn’t regardless. The only times low floors can be a challenge is when you either don’t have maxed aether equip, and/or when you don’t have pots when you’re on a class that is dependent on self-healing, before you have leveled up enough to get the healing spell, like on RDM.
Two things which are out of the picture after dozens of hours of DD.