Quote Originally Posted by Erinellza View Post
No because our stats are synced. My Dancer does her 720 potency dance every 30 seconds in low lvl dungeons and no one cares.
Worse MMOs like GW2 and ESO can do downscaling (syncing) without losing skills, it would be totally possible in XIV too.
At level 15, Dancer has 2 AoEs, Standard Step and Windmill, Windmill is 100 potency at 2.5 second cooldown base, which is 40 potemcy per second. Standard Step is 720 potency, but can only be used every 30 seconds, that is also 40 potency per second.

The only reason Standard step is worth using is because it has a smaller damage falloff.

If you also compare to the other ranged, Bard (level 18) has access to Quick Nock, a 110 potency GCD and can weave 110 potency Bloodletter. Machinist (again, level 19) has Spread Shot 140 potency and Gauss Round oGCD at 120 potency.

As a reference, if you standard step in a synced down Sastasha, you take off almost 50% of a mobs HP without a crit. That saves alot of time in a pull. However, how do you think this would change were you suddenly allowed to add the rest of their AoE kit? Plus the fact you can now increase the damage of yourself and someone else via Closed Position. Things would melt.

As for the other MMOs, I have not played them, so this is all anecdotal, but I have heard high level players coming into low level stuff just faceroll the content and newer players don't really have a chance of participating. That is something the team wants to avoid.