Dungeon Difficulty

[Ergumenus]

Dungeons aren't really worth doing more than once. The loot tables are huge and random, meaning you could run it dozens of time and never get an item for yourself. Once you stop getting chains from mobs inside of them the experience gains are extremely lackluster when compared to Fates.

Grinding Fates at level 34 nets you about 8k experience, 300 gil and a chance for HQ loot every 3 minutes (or less) for just zerging stuff and spamming aoes. So yeah.. either Fates are broken or Dungeons need to reward more experience because as of now they aren't worth the effort.

[Alise]

So far, I have uploaded almost all of the dungeons boss battle. it is not the whole dungeon run, but you could guess the difficulty from boss battle.

Story and instance dungeon boss battle all

(I only record full cut-scene and boss battle only, else the video would be too long)

For the OP question though. Yes, it does getting harder and harder. I could notice the different while stepping up the stone. Especially level 40-50 ones are all quite intense in the fight.

Note: I will always start my video name with "[FF14AR]" so if you plan to watch any update, then you can search youtube using that keyword. I plan to record all the available dungeon and important boss battle such as primal.

Note-2: I just added the latest story scene video, because the Ultima Weapon is too interesting.

[Gukster]

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NDA is not lifted, is it? I was under the impression you can record, but not upload, the videos. You can upload Early Access videos after Official launch though. I could be wrong though, I'm actually more curious than anything as to whether I can post videos.

[Zoofro]

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Thought the same thing. Pretty sure the NDA is not lifted yet.

[Galliano]

snip.

Lol incoming ban hammer!

[Gukster]

Wanderer's Palace sated my need for Endgame difficulty. The Giant Slime and Goobbue's were really hard the first time we did them; some of my friends are even still struggling with a certain mechanic of the Goobbue, lol. I haven't done many of the the others(aside from the story ones up to Brayflox), I do know that Brayflox actually had the boss get a little harder with a change to his poison pools.

Titan, as it stands, has been fun for me. I went with two Pick Up Groups and we kept wiping 'cause they'd get knocked off so I'm probably going to be running with my FC. I'm looking forward to the BCoB and all the other dungeons. I'm very pleased right now with the dungeon difficultly to the point that I'm smirking at all the "Too Easy" posts of the past.

[Lowgrin]

NDA is still up. You should remove those quickly from YT.

[Crescent_Dusk]

I did Stone Vigil with a PuG, crashed in flames at first boss. I was the healer.

I've had zero problems healing any other dungeon.

This dungeon, the first boss (Chun-Yun or something) does a flame attack that hits the tank for 80-90% hp and then kills him with an autoattack before I can even get a Physicks heal off. DPS blackmage called me "fucking noob healer!" and quit.

Did I have bad luck and got a tank made of paper tissue, or is that flame breath attack he does intended to hit for 80% of a tank's health? Because the damage was plain unhealable unless I was turreting heal even if the tank was full and by some luck one of the heals landed as soon as he took damage. Can't react at all to that kind of damage.

[Madreas]

I did Stone Vigil with a PuG, crashed in flames at first boss. I was the healer.

Fight's easy, just stand to the side if you aren't a tank when jumps back and uses the ability Swinge. Stone Vigil is probably the easiest of the dungeons I've done so far, still half a bar from 44. Only problem is those Avias pats are a pain in the ass.

[VidPrime]

Since most of us can't get in, I figured I would ask those of you who are in currently trying out dungeons... How hard are they really? and why?

I've only done the first two (Sas and TTD), and while they're not difficult mechanically, I feel they are well tuned and not "too easy" (i.e. not WoW easy), at least as a healer. Your mileage may vary, depending on the groups (and especially tank) you get. If your tank can't hold agro a lot of mobs seem to interrupt your heals which can make it difficult, and the GCD means that you have less of an "oh sh*t" window.