How much I hate Job points and the weekend event.

[Mitruya]

Just curious, exactly what you guys do in this game if you aren't grinding.....for past 3 months whenever I log on I either grind delve for lolplasm(which I already got pretty much everything I need/want months ago) or job point. I did new BC whenever it's out if I see a gear I want, but I usually get them in less than 3 D/VD runs which is 2 days of work(I guess I'm lucky). I'm 1/2 for DW belt, 1/3 for DM earring and 1/2 for gesshio drop. If I'm not grinding then I'm either playing another MMO and waste my $$ on sub, or afk in town and waste more $$ on sub. I spend around 45hr a week on my full time job so it's not like I play 12hr a day, more like playing 10hr a week. My timezone is worse than EU and NA, and I don't dual box, so it's not like I do things faster than avg player, more like slower.

So I really don't understand why everyone and their mother are complaining about having too much grind. If they make job point grind 3x faster than it is now, I'd be sitting in town doing absolutely nothing with capped job point except complaining about wasting sub $$.

Technically yeah, I can cancel sub and come back after every 3 months to save money, but that's not an legit argument on a MMO forum.

I can't speak for others, but just to clarify for myself, I don't consider Delve and BCs to be grinding. (or anything done with other people for that matter) I would not mind parties for JP and sparks. It's just that everyone I know solos/lowmans these things, and I've been missing events in my social linkshell due to stormy weather, illness, etc. On a good day I am typically logged in for ~7 hours but I am no where near capping out on gear due to lack of shouts and not having desirable jobs. (I'm also not a leader type and I'm too shy to start parties because people take these events way too seriously.)

[Afania]

I can't speak for others, but just to clarify for myself, I don't consider Delve and BCs to be grinding. (or anything done with other people for that matter) I would not mind parties for JP and sparks. It's just that everyone I know solos/lowmans these things, and I've been missing events in my social linkshell due to stormy weather, illness, etc. On a good day I am typically logged in for ~7 hours but I am no where near capping out on gear due to lack of shouts and not having desirable jobs. (I'm also not a leader type and I'm too shy to start parties because people take these events way too seriously.)

If you're too shy you can just spam /tell to ppl you know. Also if you're afraid of getting bashed in pt by ppl taking the events too seriously, you can just warn them before hand. Usually ppl get less serious if they don't have super high expectation from the pt.

If you're looking for an event with other player, CP farm can be done with 2~3 other ppl, it may be hard to find a full 6 man party for Woh gates, but you can easily find 1~2 and do Doh gates. It's actually an event that has a lot less requirement than delve and you can use trusts for mages. If you're capped on plasm gears it offers more performance increase than plasm farm.