Deep Dungeon - Palace of the DeadFollow

So here's some ******** right here. If you wipe, you don't keep any of the upgrades to your armor that you get along the way. I was just in a pretty terribly put together party with two tanks and two DDs. We actually made it floor 49, but wiped due to a bad pull. I had gotten five goddamn upgrades to my armor and weapons out of that run, and now they're gone. I'm starting not like this more and more. It's bad enough I have to grind out the first thirty damn floors before I can even get an upgrade to stick, but taking them away if we **** up is just a slap in the face.

Sounds like the way to do this is level up as much as you can before floor 40 to enhance the likelihood of getting usable upgrades in the final floors.

Then, leave before the final boss and repeat floors 40-49 until you get your upgrades.

Is that the system? Kind of surprised there isn't an automatic silver chest at the end.

I imagine once more levels are a thing, there'll be shortcut items added that'll let you start at 50 or whatever as long as you'd beaten the level. Nonetheless, the cost will probably be prohibitive enough that you'd probably want to start over from time to time. But like others have said, it's not perfect, but it's certainly a step in the right direction.

Just curious, Hio... but why are you doing this content so hard?

Not trying to bring up the same old thing, but genuinely curious because I figured you already had every variation of Nidhogg weapon and can't imagine you'd have much use for an i235 weapon.

Because they're shiny, why else?

Maybe the secondary stats are superior to some of the Nid weapons too, idk, never looked, never cared, probably never going to actually beat the fight before the weapons are irrelevant anyway

Edited, Jul 22nd 2016 1:37am by Fynlar

:O

Looks like they're taking some of the complaints to heart.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/299702-If-you-could-make-impovements-to-Deep-dungeon...?p=3791307#post3791307

Nice! I wonder when that update will happen?

I've only made it up to Floor 30 (been busy). And heading out tomorrow for a week of vacay. Would be nice if that were fixed before I got back.

Never seen them either. I'm assuming they are just placeholders for new poms we'll only find beyond floor 50.

I do like how it's a fairly good way of leveling. It gives exp similar to leveling roulette, and while you don't get the exp from kills like you would in a normal dungeon, you can do it multiple times a day and it has (for now anyway) near instant queues, even for DPS jobs.

Technically, Yoshi stated you can actually go in Solo OR with up to 4 players and "get on a leaderboard" if you go in solo, so it wasn't actually meant as a "challenge mode" in that sense, but more of a "challenge" between players to see who gets on top of the leaderboards similar to how The Feast is nothing different PvP wise other than having actual rankings. Something clearly lost in translation from early interviews lol.

Like I always say, people don't ever want to believe me when I say it's extremely possible for people to just...utterly fail at existence until it happens to them. With the way the rng works, it's extremely possible to wipe on 1-10 simply because all it takes is a landmine+monster auto attack or exploding silver chest combo, even on 1-10.

Where did I say I died? Hasty assumptions, I see. I simply didn't get enough aetherpool upgrades to let me pass to the second set of floors.
And that's why I'm saying I'll never do that again. Much like the dungeons and the tomes, it requires constant repetition.




Edited, Jul 25th 2016 5:24am by xizro