Level Sync feels worse every expansion

[Atreus]

This is still commonly brought up, so I'm going to continue to share different moments of discussion. This thread just appeared here:

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...der-Level-Sync

And this comment string received a lot of engagement as well:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxivdiscus...o4k/?context=3

[LukaRoselia]

Older content feels awful because of both the fact that its been nerfed to hell and we've got new abilities we didn't have back then as well as potency increases. Pre Shadowbringers content is not scaled for your 700 potency drill, for example or the crazy potency Picto palette spells.

It's probably always going to be that way because most roulette runners just want a fast turn off your brain 10 minute mindless run so the devs have no reason to touch it. Just look at the Crystal Tower ilvl exploit as evidence of that before it was changed.

[BlisteringFrost]

Older content feels awful because of both the fact that its been nerfed to hell and we've got new abilities we didn't have back then as well as potency increases. Pre Shadowbringers content is not scaled for your 700 potency drill, for example or the crazy potency Picto palette spells.

It's probably always going to be that way because most roulette runners just want a fast turn off your brain 10 minute mindless run so the devs have no reason to touch it. Just look at the Crystal Tower ilvl exploit as evidence of that before it was changed.

I mean... kinda?

A lot of the abilities we got across classes in Endwalker and Dawntrail are literally just things they had removed after Stormblood and given a new name. Shadowbringer on DRK? It's literally Dark Passenger.

[Supersnow845]

I mean... kinda?

A lot of the abilities we got across classes in Endwalker and Dawntrail are literally just things they had removed after Stormblood and given a new name. Shadowbringer on DRK? It's literally Dark Passenger.

That just proves their point

Dark passenger was 140 potency or 280 with dark arts, shadowbringer is 600

It’s just pointless potency inflation

[VeyaAkemi]

That just proves their point

Dark passenger was 140 potency or 280 with dark arts, shadowbringer is 600

It’s just pointless potency inflation

Does it though...? Like yes, you could say Shadowbringer is just Dark Passenger with an inflated potency... Shadowbringer is also a level 90 skill that does not impact any content bellow that level, which is (presumably) is balanced around the use of such a high potency skill, so the fact that it is inflated compared to what came before doesn't really matter, does it?

I am not dismissing the point about Drill and other sub-62 skills that were added in 5.0 and onwards, other than the 700 potency part, it's 620 currently but that's pedantic, but Shadowbringer is a bad example because it isn't a high potency skill misplaced at a low level, it's a very high level skill designed to be the EW capstone.

[Atreus]

Older content feels awful because of both the fact that its been nerfed to hell and we've got new abilities we didn't have back then as well as potency increases. Pre Shadowbringers content is not scaled for your 700 potency drill, for example or the crazy potency Picto palette spells.

Yeah pretty much. Also no level bracket now is authentic to that era on content release. It was a wildly different game every expansion and I don't remember level sync feeling nearly as abrasive as it did starting basically Shadowbringers. It's a dated system at this point.

[merlin_xiv]

Please rework level sync CBU3. Even simply by nerfing potencies to scale for the ability in that level bracket instead of outright removing them.
It is worrying that there hasn't been any adjustments or conversations for this considering we are entering the 6th expansion soon.