I don't know why this hasn't been done yet.
There's so many old cap-level duties that become too washed out by a loose itemlevel-sync. The worst offenders being the climatic finale fights of the main stories.
It makes the content boring, there's no stakes and no engagement when the enemies hit like wet noodles even when getting hit by avoidable aoes. And in the case of the trials, it makes them very anti-climatic. You fight the big bad of Shadowbringer, but he's not threatening at all. The sub-80 trials are more threatening than the final boss due to level-sync vs very loose itemlevel sync. Same with Endwalker. Probably plenty of other cases, dungeons too, that are just made unengaging by not having a fair itemlevel sync.
I really wish SE would go over all the old content and apply a proper sync to every duty. They don't have to be super hard, but I think being at max 10 itemlevels above the content compared to when it was released should be enough.
This also makes it unsurprising that people newly reaching the current levelcap get surprised by more difficult content, when a lot of old content just gets washed out by loose syncs.
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There's so many old cap-level duties that become too washed out by a loose itemlevel-sync. The worst offenders being the climatic finale fights of the main stories.
It makes the content boring, there's no stakes and no engagement when the enemies hit like wet noodles even when getting hit by avoidable aoes. And in the case of the trials, it makes them very anti-climatic. You fight the big bad of Shadowbringer, but he's not threatening at all. The sub-80 trials are more threatening than the final boss due to level-sync vs very loose itemlevel sync. Same with Endwalker. Probably plenty of other cases, dungeons too, that are just made unengaging by not having a fair itemlevel sync.
I really wish SE would go over all the old content and apply a proper sync to every duty. They don't have to be super hard, but I think being at max 10 itemlevels above the content compared to when it was released should be enough.
This also makes it unsurprising that people newly reaching the current levelcap get surprised by more difficult content, when a lot of old content just gets washed out by loose syncs.
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