Well, almost every suggestion i can post are already wrote. But here is my point of view.
1. Change money reward for materials reward: this is esencial. The gold farm in AC y CoF (just because the relation gold/time) just put a lot of gold inside the game (inflation) with no compensation in quantity of mats that the endgame offer to players. Consecuence: the mats T6, lodestones and ectos (the pilars of the endgame economy) just keep going up in prices. you constantly get up the demand of them via ascended/legendary/new-content, but the ways to get them are always the same (and with really low drop rate i must say). The option of change dungeon tokens for mats (both, T6 and lodestones) are a good choice too (just need to see what cost you put them).
2. Daily reward on every dungeon: The daily system you use in FotM have great potential to implement in all other dungeons. Just have some lack of sense in the implementation. You do FotM 1 for a 15 tokens reward, FM2 for 60 tokens, FM3 for 15, FM4 for 35… FotM must give always 40-60 tokens, and the daily chest must contain another things like ascended/exotic items/runes, or stack of mats T6/lodestones/ectos. If you implement daily in every dungeon, then for shure all people must try to do all dungeons at least one time per day. Changin the rotation from:
AC1 > AC2 > AC3 > CoF1 > CoF2 > FotM10 > TA(up) > repeat after a few hours with another character
to:
AC# > CoF# > FotM10 > TA# > CM# > and so with all other dungeons (with# as the easiest/fastest path).
At least you are half way to poblate the crap (crap=not competitive in comparison with others) dungeons at least for one of their paths.
3. Balance reward/time on all dungeons: take as base the AC/CoF reward/time (60 tokens every half hour with a party who known the path) and put the same r/t on all other paths/dungeons. There is no need to make complex calculations, just say that for example arah take 1,5 whit a known path party (and no problem whit lupi…), then rise the tokens reward to 150-180 (and same for exp/karma/gold). CoE take 45min, then rise tokens/exp/krm/gold x1,5 and so on.
4. Make some “consolation prize” for partys who dont finish the dungeon for xxx reason (bug 60%,hard 10%,lack of time 30% or so): i will explain whit an example. We take a party, go to AC2, reach the final stage (cannons), the dungeon get bug… We play for 20min for absolutly NO reward (several times). You known how anoying is this? i already post this example in another post and you just need to read it to untherstand how frustrating can be (sorry for that angry tread by the way). Back to topic: if you reach the 3/4 stage of the dungeon and your party dont finish it, when the party get out the dungeon, give them some % as a reward for the time spend in it. But you must watch the reward table to avoid make a “hit, leave and repeat” way like the arah path 3. Something like this:
Dungeon with 5 big acts:
Do first act and leave dungeon (1/5): 1/15 [1/(1+2+3+4+5)] of the full reward for finish the dungeon.
Do second act and leave dungeon (2/5): 1/10 [1/(1+2+3+4)] of the full reward for finish the dungeon (6 tokens, 1/10 exp, 1/10 karma, 2.6 silvers)
Do third act and leave dungeon (3/5): 1/6 [1/(1+2+3)] of full reward
Do pre final act (4 in this case) and leave dungeon (4/5): 1/2 of the full reward
This way you avoid reward in great way the spam first bosses and reward partys for their effort. This can be a really good way to open the dungeons to the base mass players, so if they fail for some reason, they dont feel abandoned and like crap and have that litle push to try again to win the full reward.
5. Make alive the story modes: as simple as this. Put tokens rewars for that players who already finish it, so they can help party members to make the story mode as well.
6. Disband all the mandatory pre-event dungeons: There is already hard to coordinate “play times” whit your group of friends, why we need to add more difficulty to this? Not to say that the first dungeons (AC, TA, CM) dont have this limiter and are the most successful (with the exeption of CoF, house of the farmeable berseker armor). At least put event that one party of 5 players can make in less than 10 minutes, and no the “go to hell” pre event of arah where you need 30+ peoples for at least one hour between wait the pre event start and make it. The idea of pre event its good, the implementation make me cry.
6. Drop to half the final boss CoF3 HP: Yup. A hole point to this one. Maybe you think that already have half HP of “base legendary type” but, hey, he is invulnerable 1/2 of the time. And its boring. And its ugly. And etc.
As always say, sorry for my english.
EDIT: totally agree whit Xehanort.4589 comment.
