What was they thinking when they did variant dungeons and criterion

[magitekLuna]

You're pointing to a much bigger problem that's brushed aside with "check the discords bro," and I wish I had a better answer for you. This problem is not unique to the new dungeons, and it's something that does need to be solved-- but I have no idea how it should be solved.

As cool as BA, DR, CLL, DDD (deep deep dungeon) might be, the best I can say in the current era to find runs through that content are "check the discords bro." Same with synced older content and such.

I don't really count spamming an unsynced trial to get a mount as "accessing content." I'd love to see something to incentivize actual gameplay in older content, but there's clearly a piece missing.

Merely adding a drop or two to these new dungeons won't make them evergreen. Something like (somehow) leveling roulette would need to exist to make this tier of content evergreen.

There one fix I can see. Give relevant new rewards for it.be it times or up to patch new crafting mats.

[vanaii]

There one fix I can see. Give relevant new rewards for it.be it times or up to patch new crafting mats.

Band-aid -- a temporary fix. I'm more interested in a long-term fix for a long-term problem, especially since this isn't the only content that's tagged with this issue.