It's just a different format.

What I love about comments that are rampent on this forum about the "old way" and the "pre-aby" days being nothing but a time sink is that yes, we used to spend 12 hrs camping a nm. And yes we used to sometimes have to do it 2-3 or more times. Yes this was a time sink. But guess what...it was 1 nm that would give us a nice sword or piece of gear. So tell what the difference is between spending 12+ hrs camping a nm for a really sweet sword and spending 12+ hrs camping a nm in aby 50 times to get 50 gems or horns or plates or whatever for a sweet piece of gear. lol the really funny part is nowadays unless u wanna pay a rediculous amount of gil for free drops or pops then u also have to farm the KI to actually spawn the nm.

You complainers just crack me up thinking the old way was a time sync and the new way is better. You spend just as much time, if not more, getting ur really good sword or helm or whatever than we did pre-aby. I mean come on the only thing that has truely sped up is the amount of time it takes to lvl up. The nm system has just changed from making us sit idle and spend time talking to one another, making friends and being social to making us fight a nm 50 times or fight 100 birds, followed by 150 spiders, followed by 200 flan, followed by 250 manticore, etc etc etc without saying a word to each other (boring...snore), like I said just cracks me up.

Every time I am working on my emps I think, wow Im standing here waiting and hr, 2 hrs, 3 hrs, or more for a nm to spawn so I can kill it in 30 seconds and I have to do it 4 times. Hmmmm I wish I could just get tod, wait 24 hrs, come back after resting and cleaning my house to camp a nm for a couple hrs to get my joytoy. Yes maybe I have to compete with another pt or two but so what, I have tod and I can just come back tomorrow and spend a couple hrs here again. In the meantime we have plenty of time to run salvage, or dynamis, or einherjar and have some different types of fun! We could even maybe run nyzul for a couple hrs and boom get at least 1 person a really nice body piece, hat or whatever.

I must agree that empy weapons are easier to get than relics and mythics which were and still are a major pita to get, but they werent meant for everyone to have like empy weapons are, and frankly Im more impressed by someone with a relic or mythic than I am with someone with an empy (you may as well be wielding a bronze sword for all the impressed I will be).

I guess what I am trying to say is that the difficulty in getting the new gear pieces and spells and blah blah blah are no faster than they used to be they are just in a different format and take a ton of less skill. They allow us to be less social, which frankly is problemsome since alot of players need to learn basic, fundamental social skills cause there are alot of socially gimped ppl playing mmos. And if you have to work for a few hrs to get Thunder V, big deal, so you work a couple hrs to get the spell. Its no diff than camping a nm for a scroll drop or farming a reg mob for an hr or 3 for a scroll drop. Its just a different format.

Ppl will disagree with me and some will agree, we are all entitled to our own opinion, this is just my personal one ^^