Suggestion to fix the "Boredom" problem

[Cowardlybabooon]

I consistently hear a lot of folks complaining about how they are running out of things to do in this game, and I myself can agree.

I can appreciate the new content as it comes, and I like Abyssea as well as the Voidwatch and WoE stuff. I am definitely not writing this to complain.

I think what happened when the level cap was updated, was that we kinda lost track of what our goals were. At level 75 we knew exactly what the "Best" gear was for any given job, that gear was very difficult to obtain, and we were able to take the time to develop a plan and eventually get the satisfaction of obtaining it.

With the new level cap raises, people are a bit disenchanted because armor is relatively easy to get, and 3-6 months after you get it, it is no longer the best. Even if it is still the best, everyone else has it!

I am looking forward to the 99 cap for this reason, but I want to ask everyone if they agree and maybe suggest to the dev team that we need more difficulty at 99, and we need the best armor in the game to be very hard to get! Make items that we can look forward to spending 6 months working toward.

The second suggestion is that we need a place to use our stuff! This used to be merit parties, but now exp flows like water and that is pretty short lived. I am not sure what it will be, but we need a long lasting event that we can test out and maximize our armor and weapons. This COULD be PVP just due to it's never ending nature, but there could also be some other type of currency instead of XP that we would build to earn things. I don't have the answer to this one, but we need something.

Please don't flame thanks :-)

[Urteil]

PvP hurray.

[svengalis]

If it would take me 6 months to get a piece of armor I would cancel my subscription.... now that I think back that's why I quit back in 05... played the game 2 years and couldn't see myself getting the rest of the armor I wanted anytime soon. It's just like VW I don't see myself ever farming 1500 metal plates. I'm a collector so to speak when it comes to mmo's. I find fun in collecting all the good gear for all my jobs. Theres tons of content in this game in abyssea alone if you have say 10+ jobs like me and want all the job specific earrings, back and neck pieces ontop of either empyrean or woe weapons for all your jobs and +2 for them all.

[MojoJojo]

I quit for a few years and have been back for just over a year. When i quit ToAu was in full swing and WotG hadn't been out for all that long. I found my options for a good time were limited, Sky gods were overcamped, dynamis cost 1mil, lost of things required a plethora of people, all fighting over the rarely-dropped piece of gear. Now there is so much to do, things are pretty cheap/easy to partake/accomplish and outside of voidwatch the reward is close to the effort. I'm still getting caught up on things i wish i did before i quit, no to mention moving forward as well. I'm staying pretty damn entertained imho.....

[Leonlionheart]

It's easy to have tons of things to do if you've come back recently, or even 6 months ago. Tons of things for you in Abyssea, even Voidwatch.

However personally I've been utterly bored of this game, only log in to do Kaggen for his belt, pretty much have everything else VW has to offer my character. Finished Abyssea and everything before it months ago.

PvP has brought some form of life to this game for me, it's a shame people are too chicken shit to get interested in it.

[Mirabelle]

It's easy to have tons of things to do if you've come back recently, or even 6 months ago. Tons of things for you in Abyssea, even Voidwatch.

However personally I've been utterly bored of this game, only log in to do Kaggen for his belt, pretty much have everything else VW has to offer my character. Finished Abyssea and everything before it months ago.

PvP has brought some form of life to this game for me, it's a shame people are too chicken shit to get interested in it.

My advice to people like you is either get a full time job or get a few other hobbies. If you are playing the game 24/7 of course you are going to run out of things to do. If you play like many of us that have jobs and families (few hours in the evening and on weekends if we're free), you most certainly are not going to be running out of stuff to do.

[Leonlionheart]

My advice to people like you is either get a full time job or get a few other hobbies. If you are playing the game 24/7 of course you are going to run out of things to do. If you play like many of us that have jobs and families (few hours in the evening and on weekends if we're free), you most certainly are not going to be running out of stuff to do.

If you have been playing Abyssea since the start, it's almost impossible for you to NOT to have run out of things to do.

Honestly if I wanted to play 25 hours a day it's no ones business but my own. Do I have to play that long per day to get 5/5 +2, an Emp or four, or a Relic or two? No. You only have to play 3~4 hours a day, even for a relic (honestly only two hours a day for a relic).

My advice to you is to suck less.

[Karbuncle]

If you have been playing Abyssea since the start, it's almost impossible for you to NOT to have run out of things to do.

Honestly if I wanted to play 25 hours a day it's no ones business but my own. Do I have to play that long per day to get 5/5 +2, an Emp or four, or a Relic or two? No. You only have to play 3~4 hours a day, even for a relic (honestly only two hours a day for a relic).

My advice to you is to suck less.

I have 15 jobs to get +2 Armor for, and, If I'm feeling lucky, Empyreans ! I wont run out of stuff to do for a long time.

Level more jobs NUB! :P

Also on the PVP its not that people are scared, its just unless you're an UKON WAR, SAM, or Some other heavy DD, its not really fun, Because you spend most of your time being one shotted by Empyrean Weaponskills.

Because something tells me PVP Balance wasn't in consideration with the new Emp Weaponskills >_>

[Leonlionheart]

I have 15 jobs to get +2 Armor for, and, If I'm feeling lucky, Empyreans ! I wont run out of stuff to do for a long time.

Level more jobs NUB! :P

Also on the PVP its not that people are scared, its just unless you're an UKON WAR, SAM, or Some other heavy DD, its not really fun, Because you spend most of your time being one shotted by Empyrean Weaponskills.

Because something tells me PVP Balance wasn't in consideration with the new Emp Weaponskills >_>

WAR, SAM, and DD are simply TERRIBLE at PvP. RDM, PUP, DRK, SCH, BLM, DNC, and BLU all excel so much more than the big DD jobs. NIN can take out nearly anyone with nukes.

Honestly the only completely overpowered job is BLU, but that can be worked around if you run away when you see Chain Affinity and/or Efflux. Don't let them get Quad off on you.

Any job that can Silence (even as sub) gains a substantial chance to win, but again if you're smart and run away and wear out the silence you'll build resistance and be able to finish them off.

Plus, if you gear for PDT against a big DD, they'll be doing roughly 25% of the max damage they'd do outside of Abyssea. So, if Ukko's Fury does 2500 damage outside, it'll do 625 damage to you inside. Not to mention it's very difficult for a WAR to get TP if it's gravitied/bound/slept/paralyzed/slowed, etc. Run away when Blood Rage/Warcry is up (If 5/5 Savegery they gain a 6~7% crit rate from tp bonus, careful), you won't have a hard time dealing with the damage output in 1v1 pretty much any job.

PvP is actually completely biased towards non conventionally powerful jobs, like PUP and COR.

I also have several jobs that can still use occasional work, but I mean you can finish a +2 in 2~4 hours (barring most +2 that require VNM stages).

[saevel]

If you have been playing Abyssea since the start, it's almost impossible for you to NOT to have run out of things to do.

Honestly if I wanted to play 25 hours a day it's no ones business but my own. Do I have to play that long per day to get 5/5 +2, an Emp or four, or a Relic or two? No. You only have to play 3~4 hours a day, even for a relic (honestly only two hours a day for a relic).

My advice to you is to suck less.

I've been playing this game since before it had English, and I have yet to run out of things to do. Of my six main jobs three of them aren't full +2 yet and I only have ~one~ emperian weapon. Yet there are people out there that are almost 20 jobs 5/5 +2 with 5+ emperians and 2+ relics. So what you have done / desire to do is entirely dependent on your free time available along with what friends / LS support you happen to have.

If your bored, then it's because you need to take a break and do something else for a month or three. Your not bored because of lack of game content but because you've burnt yourself out and have lost the desire to further burn yourself. Go do something else for awhile and recharge, the desire will come back.