Deep Dungeons, Epic content with MAJOR design problems! || FFXIV Eureka Orthos 

What is the axe you are using on this video? I liked the glam a lot.

Without matchmaking I doubt people are gonna give a shit about the later floors sadly.

I've always approached deep dungeons as solo content. My PoTD and HoH clears were solo. I got my EO solo clear earlier today and it was a blast. Deep Dungeon has given me some of my favorite and most intense moments in gaming. I really enjoy that I can do this type of content in an MMO on my own time. It's unfortunate that most ppl won't ever see above floor 30 but that's the way it's always been and I don't see the devs changing it. All I can say is join the soloing community. It's small but there's good ppl here.

This is just the way this type of content is, not everything should be match made tbh. Plus it keeps the rewards for doing higher floors more valuable as less people are doing. like ultimates or Eureka/Bozjan its not for everyone's cup of tea.

I'm not even sure if matchmaking would work because the harder floors assume you have have been collecting protomanders and throws everything at you with this in mind. Solo runs and even some group runs die at a lack of options when a lure or dreadbeast is accidentally triggered. Having to start from zero protomanders every ten floors would increase the challenge even more, but I don't think in a fun way. The devs have the storyline completed at floor 30 because they know most people will not want to tackle the challenge mode. It was the same for the other deep dungeons. At this point, they are aiming for a specific group of players and designing it around them.

"A run to floor 100 may take 4-5 hours plus" If you hadn't already noted that you don't do the Deep Dungeons, this statement alone would have outed you. The higher tiers, i.e. 60+, are races against the clock. It's very common for groups with lower aetherpool, poor RNG with pomanders, or poor room layouts to time out, eating the entire 60mins and forcing a restart. Anything above floor 30 is purely meant as a challenge and for bragging rights. It's the same kind of content as Savage Raids, Criterion Dungeons, and Ultimates. There won't, and shouldn't be, a duty finder for it. You're going to have to make friends and make plans to tackle it like any other high end content, and that's entirely okay. The rewards at the end of the day are entirely cosmetic. All level 1 items, no stats, plus some titles and a mount if you do it 4 times. If you sincerely cannot make friends and plans to tackle it with a static group, the option always exists to tackle it solo. The deep dungeon recognizes solo runs and rebalances for it. Hard as hell though.

It really is flawed, the same goes for PotD, I think PotD is far worse. The best of the 3, is definitely HoH, while the early floors aren't exactly exciting, they don't take long to get past generally the challenge mostly starts 71+ but 61+ can be pretty rough also, so to speak you won't be pulling massive groups of enemies. You can do this in EO but god it's so slow even on a dps. PotD... god the boring grind to 101+. What doesn't help with EO is the amount of telegraph spam that can one shot any class. HoH is the best of the 3, there's no flaw with it really. I hope the next deep dungeon we get, if we do get one, I hope it learns from the mistakes of EO. But a cool thing with EO is a 99 floor boss, that is actually really cool addition!

POTD does matchmaking just good luck finding a full group past floor 50 with each 10 floors higher becoming harder and harder.

The later floors are, as highlighted by other people, designed around previously obtained pomanders. If you're so adverse to party finger or getting a group of friends together, try going through it solo. Not everything should be dutyfinder-compatible. Your want to make this content more 'accessible' will result in major design elements of the content as a whole needing to be changed, most of which would ruin the feel of this content.

I feel like them cutting matchmaking off at 30+ is the devs way of forcing people into PF, which is fine tbh. This is ~sorta~ endgame content so everyone should know the difference between left and right at lv.81. What I don't like is how you're hard locked in with the same people. People's moods/schedule/whatever changes every single day and so if just one person can't make it - GG you're never getting past the next 10 floors.

it makes no sense to do deep dungeon in a party its simply too easy with 4 people and there are pretty much no rewards for clearing it on repeat

EO is pathetically bad. An absolute dogshit piece of 'content'. Feels like something shit out by Blizzard. Fire the devs.