Dungeon Difficulty

[S_Archer]

The dungeons get harder, although I'd say a lot of the difficulty is with random parties; sometimes a bad member can bring down the group whereas with the initial dungeons you could overcome that. Will be a lot easier when I can routinely party with my FC.

[Alise]

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Nah, NDA lifted as soon as the beta test end.

Well, not plan to talk about this since it is not relate to topic, but this used to be posted before in the beta test forum, and some had clarify this out. A lot of people thought it doesn't, but it does. In the NDA letter, it use the word "testers".

Early access players are no longer "testers", they play the real game as customer already. Only that some people get to play first, this is normal MMO strategy to reduce amount of population on the beginner zone.

[Namae]

Ive done dungeons up to Dzamael Darkhold and I can only praise the developers for the mechanics they came up with so far... I never though I would enjoy a tab target game so much after playing action ones
I have no idea how they did it but the game is very much skill based... I can say Ive had the luck of getting good parties most of the time (well, it helps that I am the healer, LOL /modesty off), but every time I get a subpar party... Oh my god, I just feel like quitting in the first 5 minutes

So far I have only played from the point of view of a White Mage, but its an absolute blast... Due to the way they design most boss fights, having to constantly move around and dodge stuff and keeping the entire party alive, it gets really overwhelming at times, and I really hope people acknowledge the work a healer has to put into keeping the party alive
Its a complete 180 from the first few dungeons, where you basically just spam cure and fall asleep... At higher dungeons there are so many decisions you have to make due to the long GCD, since making a wrong move means you sit there for 2.5 second and someone could die

Im planning on trying Gladiator/Paladin next, since I like roles with responsibility... Or rather I cant stand the idea of going in with a DPS and being completely dependent on the tank/healer being competent
Im sure many of you have felt that hopelessness of having a terrible healer and there is nothing you can do about it? Thats the main reason I play one, at least that scenario will never happen

Oh and btw to Crescent_dusk: that tank was horribad... Are you sure he wasnt naked? Or maybe it was a paladin with sword oath? (that happened to me... guy used sword oath instead of shield oath, died faster than I could blink)
From my experience the fire breath usually does about 40%~ dmg, though it also casts debuff so you need to Esuna right away
The last boss has a frost breath that hits for quite a bit more (sometimes 70% of tank hp), so that guy would probably insta die LOL

[Jinko]

Dzamael Darkhold is definately more challenging that it used to be, although the final boss is sadly a lot easier, but all in all the dungeon had a decent learning curve.

Wanderers Palace was interesting because of that damn wandering Tonberry lol.

[Crescent_Dusk]

Yeah, did encounter with other tanks and they did fine, losing no more than 30% HP. I'm a scholar I've even healed Dzamael without any issues.

That tank probably was wearing lancer gear or doing something horribly wrong and I got blamed for it. The life of a healer ;(

[Phun]

Hello everyone. Yes, the first difficult dungeon is Sunken Temple (lv 35). Good luck =)
Note: Watch out for the laser beams (last boss fight).
Other challenging content? The Titan Primal (normal).

[Madreas]

Hello everyone. Yes, the first difficult dungeon is Sunken Temple (lv 35). Good luck =)
Note: Watch out for the laser beams (last boss fight).
Other challenging content? The Titan Primal (normal).

I liked tanking the last boss of Sunken Temple, that last phase with all the beams... its a real pretty light show.

[Kitfox]

I've been pleasantly suprised at the difficulty. Especially Sunken Temple and Stone Vigil. Haven't done the rest yet.

[eviljello]

They are rewarding and challenging.. I failed with bad players before and succeed after. I have reached stone vigil so far and it is clear you will see players sink or swim because the mechanics just about kill anybody who screws up which is nice.. If done at the proper level. I REALLY enjoyed stone vigil as it starts to force CCing on the pulls and adds pathing and interesting mechanics. The best thing to see and understand is how we are slowly being trained to look at cast bars and animations and make guesses as to what is going to happen. If you haven't notice TP/abilities at the start always showed the red circle or cone.. Now certain bosses only display cones and circles during some abilities not all. So its not always AVOID red you have to start paying attention.. I really like how they are training people to pay attention in group play.