We want more content, ok that's cool but...

for a mmo that has been out for a year and a half there is not anywhere near enough content. Anyone who thinks there is enough to do after that long must work as SE. Most games by now would have 15-20 dungeons, Pvp content, large scale raids (10-20 man+content) and much much more.

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Originally Posted by viion

While you might say this, look at XIV's pop rates, the NM's are always up, so you dont need to wait at all, and most of their repops are minutes.

But do you go do them at all? Nope! Because you likely got everything but now its a case of they are all useless where as the 3 kings on XI were never useless up until level cap increase, even then still not very useless and people still did them

So what is going wrong?

Just rewards being way out dated too quickly?

Too little rewards?
(eg dodore is only useful for 1 thing, where as kings in XI could be 4-5 things)

Or is it because of timers, and that everyone got what they wanted within a day since they spawned so often?

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People kept going back to them because the drop rates were so unbalanced. There might have been 4-5 things to get from them but after doing them for a while you were always down to 1 thing wanted by half a dozen people and 9/10 kills would result in effectively nothing. But there was still always that 1 item that someone wanted, usually Ridill or some rare abjunction, that someone wanted.

People went back because they wanted that one thing that they thought would raise them over the 99% of other people. So they could consider themselves elite. So they could have something that was somewhat of a status symbol. Not because doing it was fun, just because it was the means to an end.

I agree with everyone asking for the sky-type content. It's a great way for people to do content without it being instanced and also you get items along the way to the top NM. Though, this sort of seems like an expansion-worthy amount of content unless SE decides to release an area specifically for this come 2.0 (I know they said something about making a Crystal Tower).

I also agree with an NM that spawns once every 24(or more) hours and dropping a few great items for end game. All it needs is a shorter window, I bet most people would be perfectly fine with a 30 minute window.

I'm just sick of the primals, and darkhold gear is just worthless. I hope 1.21's dungeon is actually worthwhile (as in not just run through a million mobs to complete the dungeon in time for, currently, poor rewards).

I feel if select fights were restricted to be able to be done once a day with a challenge involved, a very balanced drop rate, and great gear people would see endgame as less of a grind and more enjoyable. This would also keep content from getting old really fast and also would prevent the battle developers from being upset when their content gets completed way earlier than expected.

EDIT: Oh and give me an Absolute Virtue to attempt to kill.

You are right, they need to balance things out a little bit, either give them stats that are slightly better than a normal high tier gear + 1 IV materia or make it so U/U gear can attach only 1 materia themselves with a 50% failure rate.

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Originally Posted by Shaedhen

I think one way of doing this is giving u/u items stats that you can't get from materias. Sipahi gloves, if the critical rate + would actually do something, would be a very good example of what i mean.

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What about the Mask of the Mortal Hex which drops from the wolves coffer in Natalan, that mask does +20 attk magic potency, as far as I am aware you cannot equip attk magic to any other headgear, thats makes that mask unique for THM's who want to max dmg there gear. I would have to look into it a little deeper but I am sure there will be other cases of this from the U/U dropped gear too.

Also my LS run DH a lot as the gear is still worth it to people who cannot afford the higher priced IV materia, plus killing Orge is fun, Batraal not so much as I only got him to 5% so far, annoying >.<

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Originally Posted by Orcishgrappler

for a mmo that has been out for a year and a half there is not anywhere near enough content. Anyone who thinks there is enough to do after that long must work as SE. Most games by now would have 15-20 dungeons, Pvp content, large scale raids (10-20 man+content) and much much more.

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Sadly MMOs also don't have to go through a complete restructure or totally flop this badly when it's supposed to be a grade A mmo.

I'm 100% in favor of content similar to Salvage and Assaults! (Lolme never did Einherjar, so no clue about that.)

While the drop rates in Salvage where obviously way too low for some parts, I think the overall design was great. And the Assaults were probably my favorite content in terms of game design altogether, simply because there was so much diversity and so many mechanics I didn't expect to see in a MMO.

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Originally Posted by Dreadnought

Hmmm... i dont really consider NMs or any type of leve to be any real type of content, so that would leave me 3 days of free time especially since leves and NMs can both be done in a few hours with your LS in one day and still leave you with free time that day. Not really familiar with strongholds but the youtube videos make them look like FFXI campaign type battles, which isnt terrible.
And on top of that, im pretty sure most requests for actual content include story line missions and a variety of dungeon crawls.
On top of that, but who wants to do the exact same battles over and over week in and week out?
only having 2 summon battles to choose from since release isnt much content, on top of that, these summons arent part of any story line quest chains or Bosses to some amazing looking dungeon. Theyre essentially BCNMs with bad old fashioned time sink fetch quests. again, not much for content.
Also note that most MMO players like a little PVP on the side to break things up as well as a vast slew of gear to persue and many options for Endgame, which this game doesnt really have an endgame yet.

I commend you for trying to stay positive though.

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I guess what I am trying to say is a full blown story line deep quest content is not going to happen in the next patch, Iam thinking of something that could be thrown in pretty easily I think. NM hunting is content, just because it wasn't elite didn't mean you can't have fun doing it.

I do agree with alot of the things posted on this forum. On a side note is is good to see a constructive forum thread instead of the usual "I hate XIV" thread".

The way i see it what we're playing right now is only temporary, its all going to change in 2.0 - so why invest too much time creating content for it? Of course elements of what we currently have will move over but i think its going to have a much different feel.

Primals and instance dungeons are probably the easiest content to implement at this stage, quick dirty and contained.

When 2.0 launches i expect to have a nation story line, a main story line, and open world HNMs that pertain to the storyline. I sorta expect it to be kinda slow and lacking in depth content during this rebuild phase, but if 2.0 doesn't deliver /ragequit!

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Originally Posted by acidmax

This is true for lvl's 50. What about those of us that started to play 15 days ago when 90% of server is populated whith lvl 40+? all i can do is 8 leves/day and lame grind... i cant even find players at my lvl to party with!

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This is a problem with any MMO where the majority of the population is at level cap, a server merge should help with this problem quit a bit.

I wonder if the dev team still have any intention of adding level sync.

They won't make "Hardcore only content". ZNM with all key items being 100% is way better.

We need "hard content" but content that can be scheduled by all LS at any time. not 24/48 hours HNMs... that's the way wherein only people that don't have a job can do.

Only facts we need to keep in our minds, casual players make the game exist, people that have a job normally are casual.