Game difficulty, syncing, minimum ilvl and new players

[ForteNightshade]

Man the Thordan trial is pretty bad with the high ilvl too...the cutscenes were really nice then you do the trial and......oof you can literally stand in all of the "mechanics" (If you can literally call them that at this point.) and not die. At least the visuals in the fight are cool I guess.

I'll never forget when I first started how underwhelming Thordan felt. While the build up towards him was fairly solid, his fight was so poorly tuned I could stand in AoEs and not worry. That didn't make for an epic, grand finale but an anti-climatic one. And this was only ten months into Heavenswards. Nowadays, so much older content is utterly laughable. I appreciate they don't want new players to be left too far behind, but it makes doing old content less fun. In fact, it's one of the main reasons I almost never touch it anymore.