Remove item level sync

[Valence]

People conveniently forget that we already have a big sense of gear and power progression within the ilvl range of the dungeons themselves between the moment they get introduced and later when people reach the ilvl cap. If you're telling me that Alexandria feels identical to what it was when DT released and everybody was still in leveling gear, or if the current Valley and Clownfiesta dungeons feel as long and stretched today as they did when everybody was barely into job and vanilla tome gear, then I don't know what to tell you.

Maybe one of the true problems is that you're not the only one in parties, that some parties early on you'd get are full of tryhard people that will melt everything under 10min while later in the tier you may get a party of novices with low gear or just very casual players taking ages to kill things or being extra squishy. And maybe we also all on average gear up too fast and immediately reach the ceiling idk.

[bp_isa_ff]

Item level sync on dungeons is good, but I would say that it shouldn't be synced until that dungeon is out of expert roulette.

[BunnyQueen]

They need to improve the sync, it isn't syncing down hard enough

[Absurdity]

They need to improve the sync, it isn't syncing down hard enough

What they need to do first is fix materia when you get synced. I'm all for keeping the content at it's intended difficulty but having your GCD and rotation messed with because you got the bad 1/3 RNG is rather annoying.

[Avoidy]

They need to improve the sync, it isn't syncing down hard enough

Honestly this. In content that isn't strictly msq, like the raid roulette or the 24mans, people overgear it hilariously fast. I got M4 in normalraid roulette and she died so fast that we didn't even get to see her last wave of mechanics. Homegirl skipped that whole Witch Hunt phase and went straight to her final blast with like 8% hp on her and died shortly after. And don't even get me started on how Aglaia just fell off completely once people got some gear. Where MSQ is concerned, devs seem very concerned about this, as evidenced by their changes to The Final Day's ilvl sync. I think what OP wants is totally at odds with how the devs feel.

OP, if your primary goal is to just get your tomes capped ASAP, join a hunt train and be done with the weekly in an hour.

[Absurdity]

OP, if your primary goal is to just get your tomes capped ASAP, join a hunt train and be done with the weekly in an hour.

One hunt train unfortunately doesn't work, it's 36 A-ranks which amounts to 360 tomes. You need exactly 1 full hunt train and 1 expert roulette...or weekly savage reclears, lmao.

[PrinceBrightstar]

Honestly the final dungeon of each expansion pre-patch should be moved to the main scenario roulette. There's no reason for that thing to only have 3 things in there. Or at least ARF with its lengthy scenes at the final room.

[RinaB]

I can't even count how many people I've seen quit in post arr. It's a shame because when i went through it in 2018 i couldn't wait to finally get to ishgard and hw didn't disappoint but the arr and post arr slog is a big big big problem in this game.

[Rabblerabble]

I can't even count how many people I've seen quit in post arr. It's a shame because when i went through it in 2018 i couldn't wait to finally get to ishgard and hw didn't disappoint but the arr and post arr slog is a big big big problem in this game.

I almost quit during ARR slog years ago. Stuck through it and HW renewed my ability to do the fetch quests but I actually cared about the characters, music and general atmosphere. It did not overstay its welcome. I had that feeling with ARR and post ARR. I suggest they decouple MSQ progress with access to the other zones, but feel it's ok to restrict dungeon access because those are tied to stories. Let players see the world and participate in FATES at least.

[TheGrimace]

I like it when video games have a semblance of challenge and I jump for joy when I get an instance that requires me to be on my toes.