Quote Originally Posted by Cyanamists View Post
I can really only think of a few pieces of content where you can run solo and have some sort of difficulty attached to it, and that's all deep dungeons. Running deep dungeons solo has been a pretty fun experience but if I were to refer to your list later, the difficulty scaling on the later floors(150-200 potd, 70-100 on everything else) would be pushing the echelons of "hardcore" gaming, because you need to be prepared with pomanders, know the mob abilities, boss abilities etc etc along with spending significant amount of time on each set of 10 floors. Other content I can think of that might qualify would be... not that much honestly, solo queueing for older extremes to see if you can clear it? BLU Carnivale maybe without looking at guides. If they allowed criterion dungeons to be soloed, I'd be all over that, I think the content itself is nice but I hate being pigeonholed into healer because no one else wants to play it. Oh I suppose duels in bozja and zadnor but that requires quite a bit of preparation and rng to get into(let's not talk about how many times I got passed over before they introduced the fame counter).
That's the problem - It's not that I always want to be solo, or solo at all. I just want the flexibility to be with people, but not force them to rely on me for my weekly constraints. That's not even a per minute thing really, it's mostly that I have to PUG, so anything requiring a dedicated group gets very fuzzy. Most things you can PUG/Duty Finder in XIV right now are so easy that nobody even wants to talk, because they know they're just going about their casual day. So I'm also asking for more random peer to peer engagement through difficulty.


This is roughly what I'm asking for:

- Less constrained (stop group locking) POTD hard floors
- Min iLvl Synced/harder Wondrous Tails that span more content overall
- Critical Engagements in open world
- Don't cycle out Unreal (Isn't this FOMO?)
- Difficulty Modifiers for Dungeons that actually change rewards.

Wondrous Tails without any form of required Sync just diminishes it so significantly, it's really frustrating.

I also think a Min iLvl Dungeon Boss Rush would be really fun, take a series from a couple dungeons and run them back to back. I genuinely think we just need to get rid of hallway trash entirely at this point though. lol