Drop the PoTD req

[freshavocado]

Id be happy to help u on crystal next week!( working overnights this week T_T) I have max aetherpool so i could help u cheese most of it. I solod 1-50 as rdm stocked with echo drops and sustaining potions. A tactic i used was maygi's guide on potd enemies n bosses, spammed floors 1-30 to build up aetherpool decent enough and bought the sust pots to continue. Hug the wall to avoid traps and grab all treasure chests for the buffs. Im sure people will start posting on pf this week too now that ppl are logging in for patch..

[ACE135]

At least until yesterday it wasn't that easy to get through PotD solo. I think I spent (only) somewhat between 15 and 20 hours so far. My best progress until then was floor 30 where I failed to defeat the boss. When you found a silver chest and thought you finally get a bit stronger, most of the time you got the message that the Aetherpool didn't increase. And because you had to defeat the boss in order to save the Aetherpool gained through that 10 floors I had to start again from floor 1 in hope the Aetherpool will increase in floors 11 to 20.

I will probably try it again with the recent changes in the near future.

[Valence]

Whether or not that's it's accessible solo or not (frankly, for a brand new player with 0 aetherpool and no deep dungeon knowledge at all, I doubt it is, and it's gonna take a lot of time to get there), the fact remains that this requirement is dumb and makes zero sense.

[Jeeqbit]

Well, thankfully, today, we have things like the guide I linked to, where you'd learn that soloing on healer is a real challenge, and that there are many other jobs where you'd have an easier time of it.

Your average person just unlocking some casual deep dungeon content isn't looking that up, and certainly not just to get to floor 50 or 100. It's more of a guide for getting to 200 solo.

an actually useful criticism of what I said would relate to what the experience is like today, not what people had to suffer through eight years and a million expansions ago.

I only know what it was like in Heavensward simply because that was the only time I ever had 0 aetherpool. Realistically, I'm not going to spend all my aetherpool just to test this when the aetherpool is useful to me.

Yea but like he said, they buffed the Aetherpool Gain, so now Silver Chest gives minimum 5 Level and Defeating any Boss on any Floor gives +10, so it really isnt hard at all anymore to solo 1-50

I didn't really remember the details of the buffs and didn't know it was quite that extensive. I was guessing it was more of a minor buff than that like +1, and without having 0 aetherpool again I couldn't imagine if it would help a new player enough. But 5 from each chest should probably get their aetherpool half to cap in the first 10 floors, and if aetherpool is capped for a given floor then everything is easy solo.

[freshavocado]

At least until yesterday it wasn't that easy to get through PotD solo. I think I spent (only) somewhat between 15 and 20 hours so far. My best progress until then was floor 30 where I failed to defeat the boss. When you found a silver chest and thought you finally get a bit stronger, most of the time you got the message that the Aetherpool didn't increase. And because you had to defeat the boss in order to save the Aetherpool gained through that 10 floors I had to start again from floor 1 in hope the Aetherpool will increase in floors 11 to 20.

I will probably try it again with the recent changes in the near future.

The aetherpool has a coin flip chance to gain if ur ap is greater than the floorset.. so if ur on floor 30 with about 30ap armor then you have a chance it won't increase.. theboss is a guarantee increase.. which is why ppl are encouraged to go on higher floors

[Exmo]

What's the reasoning behind this requirement, anyway?

[Grimforth]

Is there any reason why you don't use PF to ask for help?

[Supersnow845]

This is one of those requirements where I don’t really see a purpose

You can argue that POTD 1-50 was a good “tutorial” for HOH when HOH was current in SB because HOH doesn’t really have a tutorial but pilgrims especially feels like it could easily be your first deep dungeon and it wouldn’t really be that much of a concern

[Mesarthim]

While sure people can argue the point of the requirement they can't make it much easier than that to actually do it. People have it so much easier now with the sustaining potion drops and aetherpool changes and people "still" complain.

They didn't change it for HoH. They didn't change it for Orthos. They did not change it for Pilgrim. Why are people still acting surprised? Just go and get it done and you won't have to deal with potd again regardless of future dungeons. If you don't want to do PoTD I wager you probably weren't interested in Pilgrims.

[AvoSturmfaust]

Your average person just unlocking some casual deep dungeon content isn't looking that up, and certainly not just to get to floor 50 or 100. It's more of a guide for getting to 200 solo.
I only know what it was like in Heavensward simply because that was the only time I ever had 0 aetherpool. Realistically, I'm not going to spend all my aetherpool just to test this when the aetherpool is useful to me.
I didn't really remember the details of the buffs and didn't know it was quite that extensive. I was guessing it was more of a minor buff than that like +1, and without having 0 aetherpool again I couldn't imagine if it would help a new player enough. But 5 from each chest should probably get their aetherpool half to cap in the first 10 floors, and if aetherpool is capped for a given floor then everything is easy solo.

dont worry happens but yea they buffed it really significant, i started today with it again because i wanted another kinna weapon, of course it involves rng luck to get silver chest spawns but i was already after doing 1-20 on armor and weapon about level 55, so its really insane the increase we have now