Level sync UP enemies not players down.

[Claire_Pendragon]

How can they even start while someone is watching ... /should have stop if not all skip to not be able to start it ..

(1) most ppl start the fight by mistake, since dropping off the edge causes a weird effect to suck u into the boss. even though ive played for years, i still occasionally do this by mistake myself, as do most ppl i know.
(2) why would it matter if ppl do the fight while ur in cutscene? youre going to end up doing this fight 9999 more times with your roulette, and its nothing special to see/do either. if a player doesnt know how to do their rotation, does that mean the rest of the PT isnt allowed to do their rotation? if you get carried, u get carried. the real question is why SE put a cutscene in a dungeon at all. it goes against the flow of the content.

[Holystyle]

Clearly quests and story lets you go on adventure to fight big badddies then you get to end and fighting big baddie which is long time dead before you even starting fight with him , yup makes so much sense.
And saying you can do it 2nd or 5000Th million time lol what a nonsense.

If i go 2nd time same happends will you go and tell me go it 3rd time LOL. if you think that makes any sense then you are lost and clearly have no clue how story flow works and how it makes sense.

[Fyrebrand]

As Jeeqbit mentioned, they can't scale the enemies up to your level because the other players in the group could all be different levels. Having your abilities taken away feels bad/awkward, but if they gave you a whole kit that the content wasn't designed to accommodate it would be even more of a faceroll than it already is. I do wish they would rebalance some of the encounters though, especially the bosses. It's like the mechanics just don't even matter anymore, and not only does that make it less fun but also gives new players a bad impression.

How can they even start while someone is watching ... /should have stop if not all skip to not be able to start it ..

I agree, and thankfully they did this for the dungeons at the end of the ARR story. They should probably do it for some of the other dungeons with longer cutscenes too.

[Listrella]

if they level synched up enemies what about the low level players who are doing the dungeon? this is the best solution.

[Drkdays]

Level sync is one of FF14's greatest charms. It keep the game from stagnating and reminds players of the challenges they once faced and new players or old players with new classes have to go through.
Plus it's a great way to learn more about your early abilities.

Furthermore, if all dungeons matched your level it would become tremendously tiring to constantly fight enemies of the hardest difficulty. Note also that this is basically what WoW did in poor imitation of FF: max lv players providing significantly less dps than a low lv player with better synced stats.

Syncing down may make you feel weaker and more awkward, but that's an illusion. If you're synced down your ilv is always max for that particular dungeon so you are actually very strong.

[Fredco191]

It can't work that way. Because if it did, a low leveled player wouldn't be able to do anything in a dungeon because the enemies were synced to the guy who's at the current level cap.

[Violyre]

If i go 2nd time same happends will you go and tell me go it 3rd time LOL. if you think that makes any sense then you are lost and clearly have no clue how story flow works and how it makes sense.

There's this nifty little thing in settings that lets you skip previously played cutscenes. That way, you can be the one to jump right in the next time and ignore the others waiting on the CS!

[Liam_Harper]

Ignore the dismissive comments here, the FF14 community is quite friendly but this doesn't include the forums sadly.

You're not the first to mention this and won't be the last, but the reason they can't do this is because if they let high level players keep their buttons, players are going to silently kick the lv32 newbie WHM in Brayflox who basically only has Cure II and Stone so they can re-roll and try again for a lv80 WHM who has 3 different powerful aoes, stuns and plenty of instant heals to pop between nuking everything in sight. I'm sure they've considered if there's a way they could implement this, but it would just be messy.

Two things I can agree on:
-Cutscenes should be moved to before/after entering or leaving a dungeon where possible, and where not possible the boss should not be allowed to be engaged and the kick function disabled during cutscenes. No reason not to add this.
-Low level toolkits are a little too empty from 1-49. It's nice they want to ease new players in gently, but new players could easily handle a 1-2-3 combo, an oGCD or two and an aoe from lv15. I'd be all for unlocking some abilities at an earlier level for all classes.

[Jeeqbit]

-Low level toolkits are a little too empty from 1-49. It's nice they want to ease new players in gently, but new players could easily handle a 1-2-3 combo, an oGCD or two and an aoe from lv15. I'd be all for unlocking some abilities at an earlier level for all classes.

You would be surprised how many people can't handle a 2-button combo with nothing else so oGCDs are worse and usually go unpressed even into higher levels.

[SannaR]

You can spread out thar xp on other jobs/classes if over leveling the msq is ruining your enjoyment of the dungeons or story. They would either have to nerf the crap out of higher level skills of higher level players or buff the ones of the at level players. If they allowed people to use their current kit. Hopefully the team rebalances skill/spell level gain. As all jobs should have at least one aoe between Haukke Manor and Brayflox as the first dungeon you can enter before your class becomes a job and the other is the first dungeon you get after you can become a job. They also need to rework a lot of the job gages and the flow of some jobs at lower levels. Will just have to wait for the media tour that'll happen some time this coming month.