Why can't sync just affect gear and stats...?

[TheMightyMollusk]

I get that higher level skills mean more damage but seriously, guys. You make it sound like you can't balance that. In a game where balancing has run rampant. And we're talking about content that literally everyone does. Multiple times a day even. That more than justifies the costs.

It's not that it can't be balanced. It's that going back and rebalancing skill potency for every dungeon level range would be an enormous amount of work for a team that we're consistently told is understaffed and overworked already. What new content would you like to surrender to have more buttons to push in old content?

[RoboYumi]

I can say as a player of Maplestory 2 before it shut down that even scaling your damage/gear/etc. down but keeping level in tact means you absolutely melt any synched content.

MS2 had this system, called "Fair Fight", and they tried an event where an old Raid boss (Chaos Papulatus) was released, but with Fair Fight active (meaning gear and character stats were scaled down to the equivalent at boss' level...) and what was a hard, mechanically complex, mathmatically quizzical, DPS tight boss is reduced to little more than a mob with some lasers and voice lines. Even the Math phase gets completely ignored, as long as you removed the boss' 90% damage reduction buff in the first few phases, you just skip every other phase through sheer DPS.

Imagine having a 700 potency attack every 18.7 seconds in level 30 dungeons.

[ADVSS]

Imagine having a 700 potency attack every 18.7 seconds in level 30 dungeons.

Cutters cry just became my favorite dungeon