Lower the Synch Level on Alliance Raids

[Themarvin]

It is Simple... it is all skip skip skip skiiiiiip mechanic on any of the previous expansion alliance raids.

Please synch the ilevel to lower, so you will be forced into doing all the mechanics for each one of them....

And yet again increase the reward and have more unique rewards for each individual alliance raid or special tokens that can be used for it.

the ARR Raids would have you have do all mechanics, and you would get more game play same with HW, SB, SHB, EW and DT as well, once it become a previous expansion raid of course.

It feels rather pathetic that you have to skip all the fun as it is.

[Supersnow845]

The fact that the only raids that maintain even a shred of their old mechanics are monestary, puppets and tower is just a joke especially as tower is literally the only AR of the 18 that still has every boss do a full loop of their mechanics before they die

Like windurst makes two expansions in a row where the final alliance raid was outscaled before it even launched

[UkcsAlias]

The fact that the only raids that maintain even a shred of their old mechanics are monestary, puppets and tower is just a joke especially as tower is literally the only AR of the 15 that still has every boss do a full loop of their mechanics before they die

And best of all is that its unlikely to ever change, since we are already reaching the maximum synched stats.

The problem i see is a 2 edged problem
- You want people to feel stronger, so better gear must improve efficiency
- You dont want the alliance raid to be diabolical at release

To me, the 2nd problem could be resolved by simply giving items below a certain level a vitality buff that ensures the mechanics remain survivable. The damage output might be slower then, but it should at least feel balanced.

[Kaurhz]

I can get behind this, but level sync is only half of the problem with everything pre-SB.

[ThaCa]

Would be nice, but unfortunately unlikely.

They even neutered old dungeons like The Vault completely.

[flowerfairy]

Every old content between ARR and SB has this problem, trials and raids too. I think it's especially disappointing you can't hear the entire song for the fights before they die.

[Alice_Rivers]

Like windurst makes two expansions in a row where the final alliance raid was outscaled before it even launched

When it comes to Windurst I don't mind so much the last boss being outscaled, it's like a placeholder fight.

That said, yes, in principle I'm in favour of rebalancing these things.

And best of all is that its unlikely to ever change, since we are already reaching the maximum synched stats.

The problem i see is a 2 edged problem
- You want people to feel stronger, so better gear must improve efficiency
- You dont want the alliance raid to be diabolical at release

To me, the 2nd problem could be resolved by simply giving items below a certain level a vitality buff that ensures the mechanics remain survivable. The damage output might be slower then, but it should at least feel balanced.

An alternative (at the risk of being accused at release of being spongy) is for the devs to playtest the fights at min ilvl to set damage and then again at ilvl sync to calibrate boss HP so that all the mechs play out properly when everyone is doing their rotations properly. We know they can do this because they have to playtest ultimates to completion.

[Khryseis_Astra]

I don’t know if I’d want them to lower the sync necessarily, but it would be nice to see certain mechanics play out, maybe by tying them to a percentage of the boss’ HP?

Joined a party finder for someone’s first time through Aglaia last night and was sad they didn’t get to see the scales.

[UkcsAlias]

An alternative (at the risk of being accused at release of being spongy) is for the devs to playtest the fights at min ilvl to set damage and then again at ilvl sync to calibrate boss HP so that all the mechs play out properly when everyone is doing their rotations properly. We know they can do this because they have to playtest ultimates to completion.

Thats what i ment with 'feel stronger', if they just adjust it, getting the gear from it might feel pointless. Thats why i think its better to get abysmal dps in the beginning (plenty of savage raiders or those with tomestone gear will push the dps up).

That they need to playtest it themselve at min ilvl is probably what they do now already. Hence at higher ilvls it feels weak, as that just isnt tested enough in regards of damage scaling.

[Alice_Rivers]

Thats what i ment with 'feel stronger', if they just adjust it, getting the gear from it might feel pointless. Thats why i think its better to get abysmal dps in the beginning (plenty of savage raiders or those with tomestone gear will push the dps up).

That they need to playtest it themselve at min ilvl is probably what they do now already. Hence at higher ilvls it feels weak, as that just isnt tested enough in regards of damage scaling.

At least if the HP and mechanics are calibrated at release for the maximum possible dps then you 'feel stronger' by virtue of not repeating mechanics but you also never run into the scenario where-by you're skipping half the actual fight because you're pressing buttons. Other than maybe shrinking the ilvl window (which I have suggested once and would still go along with), I can't really think of a sensible way to scale damage sensibly with power creep. To scale it directly would invalidate gains from ilvl outright and garner complaints and if damage at minimum ilvl were actually near-lethal then we'd see more "normal content is being made savage!" complaints.