Please let us keep our abilities on sync down

[UkcsAlias]

Just sync the defensives to the very same concept that healing and damage potency. I am all for making the high level player work to be of similar output of an at level (who is doing it with less skills).

I hate satasha as it is. No need to demand me to now press even more buttons in an otherwise still extremely boring dungeon. Now i can just watch some youtube on the side, while our tank is slowly pulling a few enemies.

ARR being that outdated will always face this issue. And i already reached the point to just stop caring, you arent going to fix this because once you do, its no longer newbie friendly, which is exactly what you dont want. Even if you get all your abilities except a few like invulns, its still going to be boring. Its intentional to have those dungeons like that.

The problem isnt the lack of buttons, its the lack of mechanics that require attention.

[Shougun]

I hate satasha as it is. No need to demand me to now press even more buttons in an otherwise still extremely boring dungeon. Now i can just watch some youtube on the side, while our tank is slowly pulling a few enemies.

ARR being that outdated will always face this issue. And i already reached the point to just stop caring, you arent going to fix this because once you do, its no longer newbie friendly, which is exactly what you dont want. Even if you get all your abilities except a few like invulns, its still going to be boring. Its intentional to have those dungeons like that.

The problem isnt the lack of buttons, its the lack of mechanics that require attention.

I mean one side of that boredom is your kit, not having a fuller kit to perform, but sure the other side could be interesting too.

Weird to just fall on the ground and be like "it has to suck!" though. Actually you know, I think it's worse than that... Since it's "I know it sucks, and it has to! No solutions!", or something to that. I would dismiss that logic to be honest...

Also did suggest ways that old content can vary through taking excess damage and converting it into new rewards (and mechanics). Seen in the stagger / break ideas. So we've got thoughts on that too if we must.

[Supersnow845]

Benediction and hallowed ground are such edge cases they shouldn’t even factor into the discussion. One is a 3 minute CD and the other is a 7 minute CD and at most they both save the healer 1-2 GCD casts of cure 2 (or if a shield healer they basically save nothing at all on the hallowed ground front)

It doesn’t matter if benediction can’t be scaled because it’s such a minor edge case it’s pointless to act like it will change anything. Nobody is going to call out the sprout level 35 WHM for griefing the party because they don’t have a useless CD like benediction

[Exmo]

It sounds like a total headache. Having to deal with a level 50 rotation for a few minutes once in a while isn't such a bad thing. I'd rather they focus on making rotations in high level enjoyable to play rather than hamstringing them to accommodate low level content.

[Deniza]

It sounds like a total headache. Having to deal with a level 50 rotation for a few minutes once in a while isn't such a bad thing. I'd rather they focus on making rotations in high level enjoyable to play rather than hamstringing them to accommodate low level content.

Why not both?
Its not a headache to do the rotation, its annoying for most jobs because they make no sense on that level and below even worse. And on top of that I just don't wanna deal with low level content due to the rotation changing.

I do agree tho that they should definitely work the rotations being more fun, not just at high level but on all levels. It should feel like you get additionals every time you get something. Not as it currently is where you get a complete change to your core rotation if you had any to begin with and not just 121212 rotation like some jobs have in the beginning.

[ovIm]

Why not both?
Its not a headache to do the rotation, its annoying for most jobs because they make no sense on that level and below even worse. And on top of that I just don't wanna deal with low level content due to the rotation changing.

I do agree tho that they should definitely work the rotations being more fun, not just at high level but on all levels. It should feel like you get additionals every time you get something. Not as it currently is where you get a complete change to your core rotation if you had any to begin with and not just 121212 rotation like some jobs have in the beginning.

To add to this, I would assume 90% of the playable instanced content in this game is below max level. I think that alone makes it absolutely worth to make sure your classes feel good to play in every level bracket, especially since the game encourages you to sync down multiple times per day via the duty roulette feature. Classes are the lens through which we interact with a lot of the combat gameplay, after all. And making fun classes to play does not automatically exclude work being done on the max level rotation.

[Minarisweet]

Not having my abilities on sync down was something I never understood.
Yes it needs more balancing but yea nothing impossible so far balancing was good besides some outliers.

Since the release of Shadowbringers I lost interest in doing low level content, and rouletts in general because I didn't want to get synced down. I kept leveling from EW onwards as fast as possible to get it over with asap. and I never want to enter a low level dungeon. I sometimes do to help people but then feel bored and confused at the same time because my job plays differently and its way less fun to play, especially when I know how it plays with the skills that are locked in the dungeon.

Long story short. I hope I'm not alone with this even tho I kinda lost hope for any changes in that direction.

I've been actively avoiding doing roulettes because of this too so you're not alone.

[Atreus]

Without fail people bring up Sastasha like this one thing is the biggest reason to not rethink level sync lmao. If you're worried about the sanctity of the first dungeon, then just have revamped level sync apply to anything Lv50 and above. You now no longer have to argue about Hallowed Ground, Benediction, and watching Netflix in Sastasha.