Future Variant dungeon locations

[Supersnow845]

Variant/criterion have rewards problems but they just shouldn’t have been introduced at the difficulty they are at

Variant is easier than the expert roulette (which is a legit impressive bar to limbo under), criterion is on the level of a difficult 3rd easy 4th floor savage and savage is basically a hard 4th floor with an instance length body check

Did anyone actually ask for savage, they could have substituted the savage version for a difficulty roughly the level of an easy extreme (say ultima weapon) that can be cleared with randoms in less than a single lockout with some strategy

Then with the 3 difficulty levels better balanced they could then feed them useful rewards and upgrades

Variant becomes the relic step and the “more expert dungeons” when you are bored of aetherfont, the new mid level content could drop say 650 gear and become casual BIS/catch-up gear for savage without having to deal with the lockout of the alliance raid come x.5 and the savage version could either drop 655, 660 (alternative BIS option) or the twine/upgrade stuff/weapon tomestone alongside the current rewards.

So the top tier of content becomes populated by people looking for alternate BIS or out of savage lockout twines, the middle tier fills the Bozja gap for “non braindead casual content” and gives a “casual BIS” that’s not just buying the crafted gear and the low tier gives more dungeons and more options for people who like expert dungeon level content and could be a way to give a unique relic step, then I imagine it wouldn’t be hard to evergreen variant in the future by just making it its own roulette

[Wilford111]

Abandon Variant Dungeons or make fundamental changes to difficulty, rewards, and pacing.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

• Explore the destroyed zone of West Shroud. NPC being one of the padjali siblings.

• Some part of Dalmasca, perhaps? Unsure who would be the appropriate NPC, probably Fran or one of the surviving Bangaa.

[Kaliesto]

Another future variant can be that lost city state that was like a twin to Limsa Lominsa, but underground from 1.0.