So anyone else tired of grinding tomes weekly for gear?

I'm only getting sick of it because of the pace of the two expert dungeons, too many walls and doors that dont open til you kill stuff for my taste.

But then again, I do a bit of everything and normally only need 3-4 DR runs a week to cap (done with friends messing around so its not too bad)

They will never change this system as they do not want the gap between top and average to grow to quick at each patch. The only change I can ever see is making it become a cap on how much you can spend a week per job rather then just a single weekly cap so those who play a ton could do more and gear more then 1 job.

Its the XIV way, and in truth the way of most MMO these days, it really is a deal with it or dont MMO issue. MMOs are not for everyone, and many who dont like them keep playing them and cry about it everyday rather then finding a game type more suitable to them

I left FFXIV 6 months ago and started to play ffxi again, i made a mythic(relic++) for my smn with unique stats and i really had fun all the time i was playing it, i had many things to do and i was only focusing on one job. Now, after 4 free days in FFXIV i decided to reactivate it for 1 month to get done with story missions and do new trials/instances/pvp, im having fun but i know that it will only be 1 month since nothing has been changed. With every patch they make irrelevant previous released content. So thats it, ffxiv is a game that you can play casually for only one month every six(or more) to dont get burned with it.

Its sad to see that with all the effort and love they put with every patch they are forgetting to hear some advices of their custumers. I dont know if we will have to wait for 4.0 to see some real changes into ffxiv system that make its fun without burn.

Hunts feel like a missed opportunity. As I suggested in another thread, importing the ZNM system into XIV would be a perfect infrastructure to use for revamping hunts into endgame content that serves players on the casual to hardcore spectrum. Farm pop items, pop Hunt, Hunt is claimed by the group similar to a leve or treasure map. This ensures that the difficulty and mechanics of the Hunts are retained(did you know Hunts had mechanics?) while also keeping it open world, which I believe to be very important.

I'm already bored with it, didn't bother hitting the cap last week, probably won't this week.

The dungeons are too easy and too long - you can beat the bosses with your eyes closed and you're literally just fighting your way through wave after wave of trash mobs with endless HP they put in to pad the dungeon out for half an hour. As a healer I nearly fall asleep.

The last boss in Amdapor is so anti-climatic it annoys me.

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Originally Posted by Lunaxia

The dungeons are too easy and too long - you can beat the bosses with your eyes closed and you're literally just fighting your way through wave after wave of trash mobs with endless HP they put in to pad the dungeon out for half an hour. As a healer I nearly fall asleep.

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Funny story. I queued Expert with a couple of FC mates the other day. Upon entering, we realized that no one had queued as a healer. Being the silly people that we are, we decided to just try the dungeon with our setup as it was (SMN, BLM, MCH, WAR).

...and we beat it with very little difficulty.

There is some kind of commentary to be made there.

i cancelled my account yesterday for lots of reasons, including this. the constant tredmill is needlessly frustrating. The only thing that really interests me anymore is the story.

As I outlined on on page 5, the tome grind is pretty pointless after 5 weeks; you get either your tome pants/chest, midas chest/pants, a tome accessory then save for the wep. Utilizing midas weekly will fill out the rest of your slots so you can challenge the patches savage/ex fights. I haven't done an expert roulette since 3.0 law grind, and still cap weekly by doing what my Alex floors early, then doing what I love: PVP.

Anyway, Vertical progression can be easily manipulated if you're a filthy casual like me and don't care about "World Firsts". While I love this game, gearing my avatar doesn't matter as much or fill me with the same feeling of accomplishment as it did in FFXI.

I've never felt the same way about any gear in this game as I did when I completed my Warrior AF1, my Bravura, or getting my Thief Knife.

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Originally Posted by missybee

Psst. You can edit your first post to bypass the 1000 character limit! :D

Also...did you play XI on Phoenix? <_<

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This is useful information. Thank you.

And yes I was Myriads on Phoenix in XI. Beastmaster and Blue Mage and headed up Cactuar Express. LS

after I'm done with Alex normal and did a little bird farm I'm capped and only play my miner until the reset.
This and some Seph learning party every now and then.

If I was able to equip multiple classes at once I would spend more time in this game.

We need Aurum Vale EX for lvl 60 that starts at ilvl 210 and instapoison the whole party and can't be esuna'ed. Then every two minutes everyone gets a stack of vulnerability that can only be healed once in the middle of the dungeon, and you also have a 5% chance to spawn a deadly Tornberry that drops unique rare gear. The last boss' poison causes allucination and swaps teammates hotbars/class/appearence with each other randomly for 8 seconds and healing is 50% less effective. As for the drops, whatever tastes the community.


... that sounds fun in my head. ):