Originally Posted by
Afania
It's not too long with the current life span of content though, unless you only want to play this game for 1 month and quit. Also if you get bored/unmotivated because you do too much job point farm, then you need to change your mentality - -
Afania you're one of the reasons I stopped posting. You're one of the people who take everything to the extremes I'm talking about hating. I'm sorry but honestly look at what I said and then look at what you're saying. Tell me how making it quicker would turn this game into a game you play for a single month and then quit.
Honestly people, look at what's going on here. Either we have goals like Mythics and JPs that take months upon months, literally goals that would take 6+ months to finish doing just those two alone if you played for 4~6 hours a day, or the game takes under a month and you quit? These are the extremes I'm talking about. There is no moderation.
Delve takes hours or days, Skirmish takes days or weeks if unlucky, expansions take a week to do all of them together once you hit 99 if you really want to bang them out quickly and JSE is often a matter of hours or a couple days. The rest of the game can be boiled down to a matter of a few merit point fights and meriting. After that you hit Relics, Mythics, Job Points, Afterglows, and other extremely long term goals. The majority of the current game and content can be done in a matter of weeks and under a month if you're experienced and care to do it. If people are going to quit after a month, it'll happen, Mythics and Job Points aren't stopping them.
My point in this is that it's not a slightly increasing curve as you see time required going up, I'd make a chart to show the insane amount of time differences if I cared to take the time. Once you get passed the basic 119 gear from Delve, Skirmish, and MPNMs the time required for reward shoots up exponentially. This same thing happens when someone goes from doing XP & Merits to Job Points, the amount of time required shoots up an insane amount and the reward? Ha.
I don't force myself to finish all category 1 month after release, I just do it when I wait for ls/friends to pop. It's nice to have something to work on that isn't going to be done after a few hrs then toss it next update.
Right now it's 37 days by your own numbers, for a person who you said is the average MMO player to finish this for a single job, not multiple, and this is on top of their full time job. You're basically making this a second job, something I'm sure people would love to come home and do after working for 8 hours.
Am I saying people will do this? No, it'd be stupid to do it, but if you were to do it all back to back that's the time required for such a task right now. You are someone who doesn't care to finish it all instantly and you only do it when you are waiting for things, awesome, I often did it the same. The problem is it's a system meant to happen over time in the background as you normally play and if you go out of your way to do it then it should be quite a bit faster. The problem is having it accumulate in the background isn't working at all.
Assuming you only play one job even it's still far too slow to get very far. My RDM has one category at 8 and 27 points ready to spend, nothing else has been spent thus far and it's the only job I play. In what I think was 4 months since the release of Job Points my only job I play has obtained only that, which mathed out is 63 points I believe. I've not been the most devoted person to obtaining them but I've done plenty of Skirmish and Delve since the release as well as plenty of parties both during and outside of double campaigns and I've used rings every time including my anniversary ring. All of that stacked up and that's all I have to show.
In the end it comes down to simply being too slow, no matter how you go about getting these points it's not fast enough for you to get a good deal of points as it is without absurd amounts of time spent. To this day the only person I know who has capped their points in even a single job is someone I know who wasn't even at their keyboard while they did it. So while I'm not against it taking long enough we don't all finish every category of every job in the first week after they're released, I'd like to be able to actually make some progress doing other content or be able to focus on this specifically and bang out 5~10 points a hour in a good party on a constant basis.
Keep in mind, 5 points currently is only 1/66 of what you need to cap all categories, so even at 5 points a hour it would take more than two and a half full days nonstop to finish. I think that's sufficient, since it would be 11 hours of farming devoted specifically to this for each category and they are meant to be earned in the background. Assuming it's earnt in the background rather than direct farming I'd assume a rate of more like 2 per hour, meaning 22 hours of active playtime required to cap a category, which equals out to roughly 45 Delve runs per category, that's fair to me.