Apply Unreal setting in DF

[Hana_Monogatari]

There should be an Unreal toggle in the Duty Finder settings. Any fight would have an algorithm scale up their level/HP/dmg to current max level.

(When Unreal was first announced I thought the devs were testing the waters for this exact idea. I am not sure this is actually the case anymore, but it seems like a shoe-in for future-proofing the next 10+ years of FFXIV.)

• Past Unreals would serve as a template for a scale-up factor, a formula applied to boss health and damage output and taking into account things like ilvl requirement on release and expansion quirks (i.e. no ARR/HW crits).
• Since these Unreals would not be relevant for endgame progression, fights that are too easy or hard could be manually scaled in smaller patches based on feedback with little effect on hardcore players.
• I am not sure whether having fights scale to either a fixed iLVL (like current Unreals) or to current Raid BiS iLVL would be better, since not being able to use current gear/materia is always sad. The tradeoff is the Unreal algorithm would have to account for player progression every major patch, which is more up-front work.
• Completing past fights (Savages, old Ultimates) could offer unique rewards for clearing them on Unreal (mounts, titles, Adventure Plate designs).
• Although the current Faux system is nice for rewards and weekly content, this could still be implemented by having a weekly Unreal target for bonus Leaves, like the Blue Mage Log.

Doing old content again would be incentivized for both new players, who could experience things like the fabled Living Liquid in all its HW glory, and older players, who could get rewards and replay memorable fights for fun.

lv70 Ultimates especially have not aged well for dps checks/difficulty, so these would also be massively improved by this option.

Please consider! Thanks! :)

[raelgun]

Nope, they won't do this as the current system is used to pad patch notes every patch

[kevin_satron]

nah, the ilv sync in this game is already weird enough, make all of them scale up to current will cause unbalance.

[Deveryn]

There's a reason we only get one unreal every patch. Everything has to be balanced to the current level cap. You can't just toggle a level up and not have it be a total faceroll.

[Jeeqbit]

There should be an Unreal toggle in the Duty Finder settings. Any fight would have an algorithm scale up their level/HP/dmg to current max level.

If it was as simple as that, they would already be doing it. Think of it like this. The fight was designed for how the game worked back in that expansion and a lot of things have changed. For example, the way Leviathan reflected damage when scaled up to level 80 killed tanks too easily so they had to change it. We regularly get potency increases as well. If they leave the unreal active, it will eventually just become like the extreme version and want increasing in level and scaling so there isn't much point.

Another thing they want to do is draw a lot of people into the same duty, which is the effect of cycling it.

I don't think they should try to scale them up. I just wish there was a blue mage log-like system or a wondrous tails-like system for doing old content with Minimum IL and Silence Echo settings.

[Amarande]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that the Unreal fights have to be manually tuned for the current max level, it's not just a "up all the stats algorithmically and done" setup.

This can also get messed up on, which is why we had womp womp episodes like Shiva (where many veteran raiders felt the DPS check was way, way, way too tight, which wasn't even the case with the OG level 50 Shiva EX).