Endsinger Battle Might Need ilvl Sync

[AstutePenguin]

The Endsinger battle can end before the Scions finish their buffs. It takes the wind out of the sails of the fight that is supposed to be the culmination of almost 10 years of story.

If the ilvl were synced down to 560 or if the boss became invulnerable after the phase with adds, I believe that could help solve the problem I am seeing.

[Post]

I agree. Same goes for pretty much every Trial in the game, especially x.0 endbosses.

Only 2.0's endboss functions well (doesn't undersell the story surrounding it) now and that's because it has a tight ilvl sync and was the most recently scripted encounter with the current job potencies in mind.

Every Trial should at least last through a full loop of the boss's attack pattern, the battle music in the final phase and ~40% longer than the most recent dungeon boss.

If they ever rebalance encounters like this, they can give longevity to the fixes by applying traits to jobs that are only available at certain level ranges so that the potencies of actions are tuned properly at each level range.

E.g., PLD's 1-2-3 was originally 150 -> 200 -> 260 at 50 patch 2.0; the same combo was boosted to 200 -> 300 -> 350 at 50 by patch 5.0, mostly to balance it for level 80. To prevent PLD from destroying level 50 content in patches after 5.x they simply could have added a level 71 trait for PLD that buffed their 1 2 3 to the appropriate values so it's in effect for the new parts of game but not trivializing the old parts as much.

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

Has been posted before and I agree everytime.

Thordan, Shinryu, Hades and Endsinger need an ilv sync.

Furthermore, if we want Thordan to not be virtually impossible to fail when standing in every single bad and failing every mechanic, then he needs a rescale. Unsure if Shinryu needs it, havent tried it in a while.

[Hysteria-XS]

Agree with all of this, these are the capstone fights to the expansion stories and need to have built in protection from skipping the narrative moments. Having to hold back from doing damage in Endsinger so new players can see the prayer scene seems like a massive oversight.

[Morphiana]

All of the trials need their max ilvl reduced, every single one. It's not fun even as a veteran just steamrolling a fight like I'm using Gamegenie back in the day.

The capstone final fights however, must have their max ilvl reduced, almost to the minimum. These are supposed to be moderate in difficulty at best, no one wants a final boss you just obliterate in any game it is such a let down then add to the fact that newbies are forced to skip entire parts of the fight due to high DPS, it's just sad.

The community loves the story, how could SE let this problem get so bad and linger for so long?

[CNitsah]

I can't agree more, they finally fixed that with praetorium (by far my worst experience in the game, I felt like I was robbed of the final part of that story). They should do something for Endsinger.

[kkensaki]

I agree with this. The fight ends before all the dialogue finishes and new players will miss the cutscene unless the group agrees to lower damage. There are several other trials that have this issue too, so it makes sense to add a max ilvl reduction to other trials such as Thordan, Shinryu, and Hades. These trials have gotten way too easy.

[Aosha]

Definitely needs a sync of some kind. Blasting through the fight kinda kills the impact.

[Ternallion]

Couldn't agree more. If you're a sprout going through the entire MSQ just to miss one of the most climactic moments in the game, it'd screw up the whole experience.

[VallyVal]

Agreed - and should be expanded across most content. Entire phases of fights get skipped because of iLvl sync. Endsinger, Thordan, and Hades are the most important of these, but even in other new content, like Myths of the Realm, you can finish Nald'thal before he even does his balance mechanic.