Just wondering if anyone else has felt this way coming back to the game. I'm sure I'll probably get a lot of flames and criticism for this, just like how 7 years ago if you questioned the end game dynamics you were just told you didn't have the skill or didn't want to put in the hard work, effort and time. I know people say the game is much better and much easier now, but some things have me baffled. All of this is just personal opinion as well.
I have not played very much in the past 2-3 years, very small spurts of playtime. It seems extremely hard for me to keep track of what all there is, what is good and what is gimp, which new end game events are going on and how to do them. It seems with every new update every few months there's a new event, or a new stage to some event adding some new armor and or weapons that made the previous sub-par. I've found that for myself, trying to better the jobs I enjoy playing would either take a very long time solo or doing events that my jobs are not geared well enough to get invited for.
Some people have told me to "Use WHM" or "BRD" or some other job, but why must I use a certain job to gear another? Isn't this one of the dynamics people use to hate about the game? Some jobs are not even wanted for many events. I remember during Abyssea, you could at least get Curuor gear from the npc's which was pretty decent until you began upgrading your AF3. Also, upgrading the AF3 was a really fun system to me at least.
One of the biggest things now is just keeping track of what is what, what you should be spending your time trying to get and what's a waste. It also feels a bit pointless, because once you get that really good item, in just a few months it will become sub-par and as time goes on it will just fall further and further from being what it was when you went for it.
Also, use to a lot of equipment, weapons and armor could be used across several jobs. Now, everything is so job specific that it feels like if I can get one job even near end-game quality equipped, it will take a long time, a lot of effort and continuous catching up. I don't see how I could do it on more than one, maybe two jobs? I use to really enjoy being able to equip and play many different jobs.
I don't know. I know I love Vana'Diel and miss being able to have fun in it, but anymore when I sign on it just feels like no one is hardly doing anything and anything I might need to get done to catch up no one is ever doing. I sign on trying to figure out what to do and eventually log out after feeling overwhelmed.
Anyone else feel like this? Like things are just really overly complex, hard to keep track of and catch up on? Perhaps I'm just doing something wrong, if so I hope to be enlightened on such so I can enjoy Vana'Diel once again.
Thank you for your time.