In 2013, dungeon difficulty was in a completely different state to current-day FFXIV. The developers meant for you to fail 2/3 times before overcoming the challenge, however, after a certain dungeon boss destroyed the FFXIV community over and over, Square Enix had to step in.
Let us explore what just happened back in those days.
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00:00 Intro
1:04 Dungeon Difficulty
1:30 No Hand Hold Design
2:08 Dullahans!
2:25 AK Min iLvL
3:01 Meoni Has Competition
3:13 Pyscheflayer
3:28 Don’t Get Quacked!
3:54 Pre-Nerf Demon Wall
4:35 Bard LB Heal
4:54 Positionals Didn’t Work
5:16 Not The Bees!
6:49 Square Enix Nerfs
7:33 Hidden Developer Message?!
7:58 Tail Cleaves Are Fun
8:18 Closing Thoughts
8:45 Secret Ending
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Hey taru why you don't do Savages no more?
Played since 2.0 launch as a summoner, Amdapor was fun, though I don't remember ever having trouble with the wall boss
It's good someone can explain the Demon Wall to anyone who joined late in ARR or later. If you were using the Duty Finder and not playing with friends it wasn't uncommon for the group to just give up.
I miss the old difficulty in Casual Content. I think it's better to force people to improve their play, instead of giving them everything for free. SE needs to train the players little by little to get them ready for Savage/Ultimates. It was never too hard in the first place, so i don't understand the nerfs at all.
Wasn't really hard, people just didn't get the repel mech and didn't kill bees lol
The wall wasn't that hard back then, but I guess I never did it outside of my FC. The biggest issue though was for EU players the 300 ms everyone was playing with due to servers actual location. The dps check was pretty brutal on top of that.
This sounds like such a fun challenge. Here's hoping criterion dungeons can bring back some difficulty to dungeon gameplay.
The final boss of The Burn
I missed that mess 😔 Started a bit after Heavensward
The actual smile on my face when I instantly recognized Amdapor Keep. I used to live there! It's a very fond memory of mine.
Oh forgot to say but happy to see another fellow content creator that takes time to bring in quality! 😄