As it stands now there is a deadzone for leveling alt jobs in dungeons solo for the 60-70 level gap from Stormblood that is not a problem for ARR, HW, or ShB due to Squadrons and Trust systems.
- For ARR there is a wide variety of dungeons from 20-47(50).
- For HW there is a minimal selection for 50, 53, and 57 (60), but still reasonable.
- For SB....there is nothing for Squadrons, technically you could do the 60 dungeons but that's not nearly the same.
- For ShB there is the Trust system, which covers the entire Lv71+ dungeons except for 2 80 ones that's largely unnecessary for leveling (obviously).
There are other alternatives like Palace of the Dead for 1-60 and Heaven on High for 61+, but that is just one method whereas you can see the dungeon method is covered for every other section so why not 60-70?
For example there isn't an alternative PotD version for 70+ yet but that could be added later for all we know, but the same can't be said for the dungeon alternative going backwards as mentioned since it already happened for that patch cycle.
With the Trust system now in place it seems odd to go backwards and use Squadrons to cover this level gap, so instead I imagine they can continue to use the Trust system to expand into this instead. The one issue I could see is the lore context of their outfits in old content but we know there are alternatives to that that they can use (even if not unlocked, they can be forced, so the "selection" is the reward once maxed still).
They could of course also add more characters to use as Trusts and give people a reason to go back and use them. For example Hien and Yugiri or Aymeric and Magnai.
If they don't want to include nearly every dungeon for 60+ section like the Trust system is for 70+, they could at least implement the selection based on the Squadron selection.
Current Squadron Dungeons:
- Multiple Lv.50 Item Sync Dungeons
- WP Hard = Lv.50 no item sync
- Sohm Al = Lv.53
- The Vault = Lv.57
- Two Lv.60 Item Sync Dungeons
So for Stormblood's Lv.60-70 section it would be something like:
- Whatever Lv.60 Item Sync Dungeons
- Sohm Al Hard = Lv.60 no item sync (or any of the 8...)
- Shisui of the Violet Tides = Lv.63
- Doma Castle = Lv.67
- Whatever Lv.70 Item Sync Dungeons
The idea is that we should have options available to us across the board, but for whatever reason that deadzone in Stormblood exists with the only alternative being Heaven on High.
They wouldn't have added the Trust system if they felt like they wanted more people just queueing for dungeons, so why then does this section of solo dungeon leveling not exist.
I think this is a reasonable thing to consider going forward as it would let people avoid queues for leveling this section if they so choose or at the very least not be stuck mindlessly grinding HoH. And of course allows them to expand the Trust system to add more things for people to grind to keep playing.
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- For ARR there is a wide variety of dungeons from 20-47(50).
- For HW there is a minimal selection for 50, 53, and 57 (60), but still reasonable.
- For SB....there is nothing for Squadrons, technically you could do the 60 dungeons but that's not nearly the same.
- For ShB there is the Trust system, which covers the entire Lv71+ dungeons except for 2 80 ones that's largely unnecessary for leveling (obviously).
There are other alternatives like Palace of the Dead for 1-60 and Heaven on High for 61+, but that is just one method whereas you can see the dungeon method is covered for every other section so why not 60-70?
For example there isn't an alternative PotD version for 70+ yet but that could be added later for all we know, but the same can't be said for the dungeon alternative going backwards as mentioned since it already happened for that patch cycle.
With the Trust system now in place it seems odd to go backwards and use Squadrons to cover this level gap, so instead I imagine they can continue to use the Trust system to expand into this instead. The one issue I could see is the lore context of their outfits in old content but we know there are alternatives to that that they can use (even if not unlocked, they can be forced, so the "selection" is the reward once maxed still).
They could of course also add more characters to use as Trusts and give people a reason to go back and use them. For example Hien and Yugiri or Aymeric and Magnai.
If they don't want to include nearly every dungeon for 60+ section like the Trust system is for 70+, they could at least implement the selection based on the Squadron selection.
Current Squadron Dungeons:
- Multiple Lv.50 Item Sync Dungeons
- WP Hard = Lv.50 no item sync
- Sohm Al = Lv.53
- The Vault = Lv.57
- Two Lv.60 Item Sync Dungeons
So for Stormblood's Lv.60-70 section it would be something like:
- Whatever Lv.60 Item Sync Dungeons
- Sohm Al Hard = Lv.60 no item sync (or any of the 8...)
- Shisui of the Violet Tides = Lv.63
- Doma Castle = Lv.67
- Whatever Lv.70 Item Sync Dungeons
The idea is that we should have options available to us across the board, but for whatever reason that deadzone in Stormblood exists with the only alternative being Heaven on High.
They wouldn't have added the Trust system if they felt like they wanted more people just queueing for dungeons, so why then does this section of solo dungeon leveling not exist.
I think this is a reasonable thing to consider going forward as it would let people avoid queues for leveling this section if they so choose or at the very least not be stuck mindlessly grinding HoH. And of course allows them to expand the Trust system to add more things for people to grind to keep playing.
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