Stat squish confirmed: How will unsynced old content be handled?

[Payadopa]

I really hope they ensure unsync being of very nearly the same. I find it is a very enjoyable feature, and feel it would be unfortunate to lose. Echo might help with that certainly!

What is so much fun about it? I personally loathe DF for that reason. Especially as a healer. Just wondering. ^^

[Shougun]

What is so much fun about it? I personally loathe DF for that reason. Especially as a healer. Just wondering. ^^

Fair question, just to clarify since the last part about DF makes me not entirely sure we were talking about the same thing. You're asking why I like to solo unsync content right? Or why I suggested Echo?

To add clarity then I think echo if you unsync should be from the get go, no need to die to get some. because obviously if they nerf the creep you wont be as strong so it would be safe to assume you have to die a bunch to grow echo if you wanted to solo stuff, that seems like a painful and silly step (so.. dont have that be part of it, just auto start with some echo).

Why is it fun? Well the content is still interesting, seeing the neat boss fights and mechanics, and it is obviously a lot less stress in multiple ways. Don't need to memorize much, or really watch a guide in advance, don't have to worry that your group is going to be awful. I don't want to bag on DF much since it is my preference to content but savage content in DF is just a massive "oh my god.. Thal save me now". Until there is a huge echo boost and even then you're like, JOHN STOP STANDING IN THE RED.. SERIOUSLY lol.

So I am confident in my own ability to pick up what I need to do but not others and at the same time I don't want to wait around in PF to get groups or deal with the different culture that PF has, I have absolute first world PTSD with forming groups. First world as in, it's clearly a joke I could do it.. I just no longer ever want to do it lol. FFXI killed my desire on that, and then in FFXIV 1.0 it took me LITERALLY 3 days of shouting in Ul'dah to get 3 freaking people to join me to do a quest where they killed it before my cutscene was over and those 3 people joined out of pity (they told me they felt bad). NO, PF can die in a fire lol. But to be clear I don't want others to lose that ability, I know there are people who like that.

So I do DF for content that I know everyone can finish, even if it's me carrying the whole group (which is why I like to be PLD, RDM, or SMN or jobs like that where you can support where you need). Then I do the other content (like savage) solo- that I don't have the time to do in DF because people are going to die 10 times in a row and it makes farming the content kind of a waste of time (and it wasn't uncommon to see people abandon the content or run the timer out because someone just can't learn an important mechanic), and I don't have to PF as I don't want to start my short period of game time (~30 min here and there) waiting in a group that may or may not form because it's not hot content anymore (like blue in PF is honestly fine when it's hot but really really dies when it's not, which is why I hope they keep up the basic instinct train of thought so you can still progress later).

Unsync provides me the ability to enjoy a much larger portion of the game and it's still fun for me to see, experience, and earn stuff for. It's also nice to think about when I log in for 30 mins (or less) that I could just maybe knock out an old content or two. Also if I need getting 1 more person like a friend or FC member to unsync is pretty easy, if you need but getting a whole group when you're not maintaining close friends or a very willing FC to just do whatever you want to do when you want to do it (unrealistic and a bit unfair to their time)... so again unsync at a great power is actually, for me, a nice feature. Which is why I hope they either go out of their way to ensure unsync stays STRONG or they continue empowering blue mage with ideas like basic instinct (such that blue mage fills in the unsync gap equal or even better than previously other max cap jobs did- which with basic instinct the job is quickly becoming that).

Unsync (or a further empowered blue mage, which it's getting pretty close to now) = ability for me to peaceful complete content on my own time and schedule and enjoy a greater portion of the game with relatively minimal stress. I get to play most of the game, just at a delay lol.

Unysnc, or a concept like it = enjoyable concept to me. :3