Originally Posted by
kylani
I've played a long time, and the reason many of my friends left was the tedium of farming alexandrite, currency, salvage plans, etc. Even though we had linkshells devoted to activities, people got burned out doing the same thing over with folks painfully slowly getting what they needed till in the end, there were too few left to farm. The ability for folks to finally be able to work for the items they want with smaller groups has made things better. Unfortunately, we lost a lot of good players by the time SE starting making things better.