Game difficulty, syncing, minimum ilvl and new players

[technole]

I don't see an issue with old fights retaining their difficulty - or at least enough of it to still feel like an epic battle and not a pushover. Don't enforce a min-ilevel sync but keep it at or not too far above the best gear you could own when the fight was current.

The "reward" of getting stronger from current high-level gear should be felt in current fights, not old ones.

Well they did do this for the ultimate fights where they cannot be unsync, and are ilevel sync/capped so they can't be outgeared. It was felt like that was a players request to retain the difficulty and value of the titles.

I do think they should extend this mindset to other end-game content, possibly savage and normal difficulty trials at level 80. The leveling up ones like Ravana, and Titania tend to stay as-is on difficulty over time since they are downsynced.

[Absurdity]

I do think they should extend this mindset to other end-game content, possibly savage and normal difficulty trials at level 80.

I don't see much of a reason to keep savage synced. It doesn't add any titles so the only "bragging rights" you get from it is the gear, which will be rather useless once the next raid tier is released, and mounts, which you rarely ever even notice. Forcing a sync for savage accomplishes very little besides keeping less skilled players from getting the glamour and mounts later on. Considering that savage is normally the only way to acquire the dyeable version of the normal raid gear this is bound to annoy people and do little else.

[technole]

I don't see much of a reason to keep savage synced. It doesn't add any titles so the only "bragging rights" you get from it is the gear, which will be rather useless once the next raid tier is released, and mounts, which you rarely ever even notice. Forcing a sync for savage accomplishes very little besides keeping less skilled players from getting the glamour and mounts later on. Considering that savage is normally the only way to acquire the dyeable version of the normal raid gear this is bound to annoy people and do little else.

They already add echo a patch or two later from the next savage anyway, and people already can't just go into Alphascape let alone Eden's Gate Savage and take a win without knowing the mechanics. E4S will probably be a gate for those who don't know the fight for awhile regardless.