Dungeon Difficulty

[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]

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.

[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.

[Lowgrin]

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

[Galliano]

snip.

Lol incoming ban hammer!

[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.

[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.

[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.