You have no Savage / Extreme / Ultimate content...

Story content on main and multiple alts, lore discussion, assembling glamours, taking screenshots of glamours, levelling ever more classes so I can actually equip my glamour ideas...

I don't do any of those with the exception of EX, and even then, I hardly do them when they are relevant. I still haven't done Hades and beyond. The amount of time it takes to actively participate in that content is part of the reason why I tend to stay away. PF for EX trials is much more lenient and forgiving when it comes to time constraints. But that time would definitely cut into what I really love doing and that's DoL/DoH activity, housing, glamour chasing, and market-boarding.

I'm always looking for some kind of 'big grind' that will consume a great portion of time. There are many to be found in the game, so you just have to find something that will interest you, and you can even deliberately slow down your own progress if you like. An example of that might be having a goal of maxing out another job, but instead of just buying your gear from an NPC, you decide to craft it all yourself, and instead of buying the mats off of the MB, you also choose to gather everything yourself.

This is how I constantly do things in this game because I know once the destination is reached, the grind is over. There are a lot of mini goals on the way to accomplishing the bigger goal, and some are even discovered along the way. Crafting and gathering really made that possible. It's how it all got started: "Ok for this I need some thread, lumber, and an ingot. To make the thread I have to gather flax; to make the ingots, first I have to craft the nuggets; to make the lumber I need to use Alchemy to make the alumen... And I'm pretty sure this just started with wanting to make a pickaxe or something. It just goes on and on like that, and before I knew it, I'm just like screw it man, I'm just going to max them all out.

Anywho, you don't necessarily have to craft and gather. I just used it an example. Fishing logs, hunts, clearing PoTD/HoH, treasure dungeons, mount farming... Like I said before, there is lots of stuff to do that can potentially consume a large portion of time.

These days, I only log in for raids so... nothing I guess? I don't really need the 450 tomes. I don't need the Eden normal gear. I don't like dungeons.
I've been around for 3 or 4 years now, I've had the mounts, minions, glams I wanted. I have all my crafters, I'm struggling to finish my two last jobs for the amaro. I'm mostly looking forward to 5.4 now, and 5.3 MSQ to keep me busy for an hour or so :D

Cancel my sub and come back next expansion for the story

The same things I always do - Level jobs, POTD and HOH, gold saucer, crafting logs, legendary fish, various achievements, collect mounts from outdated EX trials, and probably a few more activities that don't immediately come to mind. Help my friends with stuff.

Sometimes I feel burnt out and take what for me constitutes a break by only logging in to check my retainers once or twice a week for awhile. Never for more than about a month, though. When I find myself staying logged in just to watch the idle cam or replay cs at the inn, I know it's time to choose something to focus on and get back to the game.

I don't do Ex/Savages/Ultimates

Roulettes for tomes
PVP roulette
gathering
crafting
Roulettes for leveling (a little)
leveling alt (a little)

would do housing if I could

I don't do any of that stuff you mention OP, so I don't even have to imagine what I'd do. :)

I level up jobs, gear up the jobs where necessary (level 80s are all on Neo-Ishgard gear since I don't do any content to get higher ilevel than that, and I'm happy with that), do the daily beast tribes and bounty hunts, craft stuff, gather stuff (Ishgard Restoration, weekly collectables, House of Splendours collectable turn-ins if necessary), glamour stuff, train the squadron for the weekly shiny run, torture my retainers, stare at the scenery, challenge log stuff, help my daughter with her levelling up and gearing up, plus I still haven't got Rank 3 in all the maps for FATEs on the First so that's something I'm working on as and when the mood takes me. I also have an alt who needs attention every now and again, and other alts who may have a look in sometimes, too. If all of that wasn't a thing for any reason, then it'd be Big Fish time again, or maybe I'd pop into the company workshop and progress some stuff there (also a long, slow burn there since I'm the only one who does it). If I was really super bored, I'd redesign my housing interiors (I have the FC house, with a room for my main and a room for my alt, an apartment and a private house next to the FC house. I'd have to be mental to faff and re-do the lot of them, but I can't claim it's never happened before).

I still have this thing where I consider regularly running stuff with a static (haven't worked up the nerve to even get the ball rolling on that, however), but I honestly don't know where I'd fit it in.

Crafting.
Level alt jobs... and alts.
Hunt trains.
Map parties and old content farming with FC.
Redecorate housing (I do it for others occasionally in addition to my own).

I guess I pretty much just keep playing the game outside of the things you mentioned and PvP.

If there's nothing else that interests you other than what you listed, then by all means take a break and play other games. I always find it strange when people act like a single game should be able to occupy 100% of their free time, or that there's no reason to play a MMO if you're not doing the high end content.

Do my dailies.
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Originally Posted by Malmstrom

... so what do you do to fill the time?

Assume for a moment that you do not have access to the higher end group content anymore. No particular reason why, we're just playing hypotheticals here.

So what do you do in game to occupy your time?

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Not a hypothetical lol. In the 2 years that I've played, never done current tier Savage or Ex trials.

Mostly doing playing the MB and casual content like glams, Khole's Wondrous Tales, Gold Saucer stuf, Treasure Maps etc. Unsynced runs of old content for mounts,glams etc.

My dream MMORPG would be one which would let me progress without a combat class. But since there are currently none out there or lack the polish that XIV has, after doing MSQ, I just end up doing all the side/casual content.