Higher level players, either get a new charature or practice self control!

[Ambrose Boa Bowie]

People keep telling me how fun and awesome this game is. They tell me it’s got the friendliest community, and their is content to be had. The story is amazing and yada yada yada. And for the most part this is true. But you know what rubies it for me. The community.
Friendly, yes. But long term players have a bad habit of misinterpreting “helping players” with “play the game for them”.
I have been in so many situations where I want to fight something, clear a dungeon, finally kill that boss that has been kicking my a— from [Dedric word here] to [seriously who names these cites]. Only to have level 3000 Chad come in and make all my efforts COMPLETELY Redundant!

Really! Clearing a level with end game players is like showing up to a knife fight, but your friend brought an American A-10 Thunderbolt (warthog). What ever “fun” out side of RP, which I have in vary limited interactions. Has been shattered by the lack of self control of higher level players making the game a fantasy literal walking simulator. And the story is not enough to keep me there. Far FAR to much reading. I’m sure it’s a good story, but I don’t want to sit there for half an hour waiting for the dialog to end.

I want to play a game with a party that is the same level as me, so I can enjoy progression and experiencing the game with others of the same mind set. NOT WATCH SOME EGOTISTS PLAY THE GAME FOR ME AND THEN BROWN NOSE SAID GAME!!!

[GeminiEclipse]

Originally posted by Front Line Medic:

I want to play a game with a party that is the same level as me...

That's what the duty finder already does.

[Jethro]

Ok.

[xyz]

There isn't much content that isn't level sync'd unless you go in and do it on the duty finder under unsynced. I used to help my friends in my guild do that to clear dungeons quicker for the MSQ. In general it's just world bosses (Hunts)?

Maybe that has changed with content in EW, but if most of the players are at endgame at this point. There is a new raid tier coming out shortly so people are planning for that.

Most of the dungeons, raids and additional content are level capped (e.g. Eureka,). So where are you talking about this?

[Kiana]

This reads like copy-pasta from someone that hasn't actually played the game. Do you realize how aggressively FFXIV level syncs its content? And item level syncs. Everything except generic overworld mobs are synced, even FATEs.

And even when the ilvl sync can cause a disparity, it's not like it renders the rest of the party redundant. Not even in Praetorium, where the item level different is the largest in the game. You have to go out of your way to unsync content, by forming a party and deliberately choosing the menu option for it.

So how about giving some more detail instead of being ridiculously hyperbolic (level 3000, seriously?) and going off on a tangent about the amount of reading involved in a story-heavy game.

[tathen]

Originally posted by Kiana:

This reads like copy-pasta from someone that hasn't actually played the game.

[TrioAngelamVA.WliaAlfaD.A.S]

Honestly this sounds like something i experienced in old version praetorium othervise i cant say where this claim would fall in.

[Ambrose Boa Bowie]

People keep saying LeVeL SyInC, Yes i know that is a feature but clearly it doesn't work. the first dungeons i started to really notice this was when i was level 20 something, Went in with a party who's second lowest member was like level 50. By the time i caught up they had killed the last boss and were there for almost over a minute. I think it was that underwater one, Not the pirate one, the one with the over abundance of jelly fish. That was not an isolated incident. Its every dungeon i'm in with these people.
Ya i could just go in with AI but i feel like that takes away the point of an MMORPG

[Ambrose Boa Bowie]

Originally posted by TrioAngelamVA.WliaAlfaD.A.S:

Honestly this sounds like something i experienced in old version praetorium othervise i cant say where this claim would fall in.

well im glad some one at least understands what im referring to with this problem

[Ambrose Boa Bowie]

Originally posted by GeminiEclipse:

Originally posted by Front Line Medic:

I want to play a game with a party that is the same level as me...

That's what the duty finder already does.

waited almost 30 minutes one time. Worked a few times but call me impatient

[FreshMint]

Originally posted by Front Line Medic:

People keep saying LeVeL SyInC, Yes i know that is a feature but clearly it doesn't work. the first dungeons i started to really notice this was when i was level 20 something, Went in with a party who's second lowest member was like level 50. By the time i caught up they had killed the last boss and were there for almost over a minute. I think it was that underwater one, Not the pirate one, the one with the over abundance of jelly fish. That was not an isolated incident. Its every dungeon i'm in with these people.
Ya i could just go in with AI but i feel like that takes away the point of an MMORPG

If you queue with duty finder then level sync is enforced. People could still be in a higher level with their job but the party list should display their synced level at which the game treats them as.
The only effect higher levels might do in such a case is the few role abilities, but that doesn't make *that* big of a difference.
The only way to go in without a synced level is by using the unrestricted party option and going in with a premade party.

[TheVoidSpirit]

Originally posted by Front Line Medic:

People keep saying LeVeL SyInC, Yes i know that is a feature but clearly it doesn't work. the first dungeons i started to really notice this was when i was level 20 something, Went in with a party who's second lowest member was like level 50. By the time i caught up they had killed the last boss and were there for almost over a minute. I think it was that underwater one, Not the pirate one, the one with the over abundance of jelly fish. That was not an isolated incident. Its every dungeon i'm in with these people.
Ya i could just go in with AI but i feel like that takes away the point of an MMORPG

Sastasha Level Sync is 18, so even if the lowest other party member was 50, they're effectively at 18. and if they were really at level 50, you went in unsynced.

[rabureta]

"Dedric" should be a dead giveaway that this is an ESO copypasta or something.

[jfoytek]

Originally posted by Front Line Medic:

People keep telling me how fun and awesome this game is. They tell me it’s got the friendliest community, and their is content to be had. The story is amazing and yada yada yada. And for the most part this is true. But you know what rubies it for me. The community.
Friendly, yes. But long term players have a bad habit of misinterpreting “helping players” with “play the game for them”.
I have been in so many situations where I want to fight something, clear a dungeon, finally kill that boss that has been kicking my a— from [Dedric word here] to [seriously who names these cites]. Only to have level 3000 Chad come in and make all my efforts COMPLETELY Redundant!

Really! Clearing a level with end game players is like showing up to a knife fight, but your friend brought an American A-10 Thunderbolt (warthog). What ever “fun” out side of RP, which I have in vary limited interactions. Has been shattered by the lack of self control of higher level players making the game a fantasy literal walking simulator. And the story is not enough to keep me there. Far FAR to much reading. I’m sure it’s a good story, but I don’t want to sit there for half an hour waiting for the dialog to end.

I want to play a game with a party that is the same level as me, so I can enjoy progression and experiencing the game with others of the same mind set. NOT WATCH SOME EGOTISTS PLAY THE GAME FOR ME AND THEN BROWN NOSE SAID GAME!!!

Just do the dungeon with NPC's....

[Ambrose Boa Bowie]

Originally posted by Dex:

Originally posted by Front Line Medic:

People keep saying LeVeL SyInC, Yes i know that is a feature but clearly it doesn't work. the first dungeons i started to really notice this was when i was level 20 something, Went in with a party who's second lowest member was like level 50. By the time i caught up they had killed the last boss and were there for almost over a minute. I think it was that underwater one, Not the pirate one, the one with the over abundance of jelly fish. That was not an isolated incident. Its every dungeon i'm in with these people.
Ya i could just go in with AI but i feel like that takes away the point of an MMORPG

"by the time I caught up"

There's the red flag. I get the feeling we're missing a lot of details in this story.

i was using a ranger class. "caught up" as in they were moving physically faster and i was stuck at base speed. they had killed everything by the time o got into the next room.

[Dr Just Strong]

Then leave