Tomes,Savage,iLvl,lore gear, and midcore content. The problem with it.

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Originally Posted by RiceisNice

Something close to EX trials or FCoB would be my ideal of midlevel/midcore. It boils down to the amount of time commitment you need to make meaningful progress as well as the attentiveness needed in the content. Void Ark and expert dungeons are far from this for the most part (with exceptions like cculairhrasirghasf and the first boss in madpoor city (Heroic))...that's falling into casual territory (where you can complete it without any time commitment and for the most part, literally ignore core mechanics of a fight and still win through it).

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I would even be happy if we had the same raid (Void Ark raid, not Alexander) difficulty as LotA. When that came out it was so fun, and people needed to learn mechanics and work together and it felt rewarding. Now with Void Ark it's just a very long dogpile on one boss/mob after the next.

I wish they'd made more of an effort with The Diadem.
I went with a small party before and got to do some actual exploration, which was amazingly fun, but there weren't really any exciting rewards to go along with the exploration. We were so disappointed when we went into one of the caves, fought all the mobs, and all that was there was a chest that dropped an unimpressive piece of gear! ｡ﾟ(*´□`)ﾟ｡

I'm still enjoying the game, but I'm struggling to find a reason to bother raising my ilvl when all it really does is save me 5 minutes off an expert dungeon and prepare me to be 30 ilvl higher than the next set of dungeons coming out in the upcoming patch.
(doesn't help that the lore gear makes me look like a sardine...haha)

I wouldn't mind if the next tier of Shadows of Mhach was a little bit more like LotA or WoD. With the weekly quest sending me back to those raids they definitely feel way more exciting than Void Ark does since there's some mechanics that require people to be (semi) awake.

I think my issue with the lack of mid-core content is the lack of steps on my vertical progression path.

As it is now, i feel like I am walking uphill, uphill, downhill, and then all of a sudden rock climbing to the top. It would just be a much more fun experience if you worked your way up with progressively more difficult content at each step.

Right now it's ->

(2) Void Ark for Eso upgrades to 210
(3) Midas for 220
(5) Seph EX
(1) Expert Roulette for 230
(10) Savage for 240

The numbers on the left are to represent relative difficulty, where it would be much nicer if we went 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10, instead of 2 3 5 1 10

even if they add mi-core content , that content life cycle is so short.... SE needs to add content that can last more than 2 days...and isnt superhard... i wont mind farming tomes on it (cough Diadem .... :( )

VA: Easy and boring , forced for the materia V
Expert : Easy nd boring , farm lore
Alex normal : Dont bother anymore (still do M4 for the gear meh)
Trials : Once are on farm and u kill it 10 times no point going back outside 0,2% birds
Savage: the only thing that last more than days , because is hard and req coordination ...but is 4 turns, for 6 months...
Hunts : LAWL no comments

and thats all u can do at max lvl....for DOW/DOM that let u "advance" somehow...

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Originally Posted by Warlyx

even if they add mi-core content , that content life cycle is so short.... SE needs to add content that can last more than 2 days...and isnt superhard... i wont mind farming tomes on it (cough Diadem .... :( )


and thats all u can do at max lvl....for DOW/DOM that let u "advance" somehow...

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EX Trial-esq fights for the alexander raids would be the ideal point for content that's accessible and can last a while. Except we only get 1 of these sort of fights every patch cycle, and Alexander's tuning is adverse to people who don't want to commit a lot of time but are still longstanding players. They could have the final fights for each raid tier be hat hard, but at that point it really justifies it. When every fight is tuend that way (or worse, tuned with a disappropriate curve, or where future fights are arguably easier), it becomes a pacing issue.