So anyone else tired of grinding tomes weekly for gear?

For me it is no grind... I do weekly VA weekly, Midas NM, a bit Feast here, helping on primals there and usually am capped at the weekend. I stopped bothering to cap if I don't get there with my everyday stuff. I raid endgame (no savage clear yet cause derp/lag) and I have my "important" gear that I wanted already from Lore investing in off and offoffclasses now.
I don't run any roulettes!

Yup, stopped grinding after getting the first piece and seeing how ugly the lore gear is. Now I get my lore by accident mostly. My current options for daily end game things to do are lore grind through dungeon roulettes and red scrip grinding. Uh... No thanks. I should get paid to do those instead of paying myself.

Honestly I don't think the problem itself is the gear progression, but the durability of that said gear/content. It's a lose/lose situation...

The ones that have lots of time to play won't bother to grind because it'll be outdated really fast.
The ones that don't have more than a couple hours a day to play won't bother to grind because they might not even complete the grinding process before said gear/content gets outdated.

I stopped playing for like... 5 months at most and when I got back two weeks ago Bismark along with Ravana and Alexander are eye-rolling content already.
I gotta say I enjoyed this game a lot more before Heavensward.

But even though I'm not that satisfied I'd like to point that a lot of people are using FFXI as a reference with the memory of the game and all of his expansions and 10 years+ of history. And by that time I also saw the same complains that we're having right now from time to time until things got "fixed"; let's put it this way.
I'd say give it time, we might be gettin' some neat stuff in the future and if the community points out the game's flaws in a constructive and encouraging way, there's hope for ARR to last a long time in the market.

I might now like every aspect of the game and I might stop playing from time to time, but I always come back and feel like home again, until I get 'bored' and slow down my pace.

I love ff games, and I want to love this one too but there's quite a lot of things that are not great as an mmo. I have only been playing for 3 months and im already not seeing the point of getting end game gear or a reason to carry on playing. There is no incentive to be the "best", getting the best gear ok, and now what?? In pvp you get sync to ilvl150! Thats just a joke, the main reason in other mmos to get the best gear is to be better than others. I do enjoy dungeons and primals, but I do agree doing roulettes everyday gets old soon. One of the things that bothers me the most is the lack of use of the great world they have created. I can log in and not move from one town and play all the roulettes/dungeons/primals/pvp I want, leaving all the cool looking scenarios they have made useless. I would love to be able to make a party and go fight some random mobs somewhere in the world, and get something out of it! ( Fates dont count, I have done lots already!)

Been tired since 2.0. And this topic is as old as 2.0 mythology tomestones grind. They won't change it though, they're comfortable not being creative *at all*.

I don't mind the lore grind, wish we could get more per week, but that is cause I like to play end game on more than one job. Weekly lock outs are the part that is getting old. Hit the magic number and done for the week. No reason to do more. I did like that they made bcob and scob meaningful again for crafted glamours and music. Have had a lot of fun collecting Music. The hard ones are CT, ST and WoD. the queues are long to put it mildly.Would be nice if they tossed something fun in there to do. Same with the old primals, they are a lot of fun but not much other than ponies now. Hoping relic has two routes, the casual way and the grind hard content (sync only) to go much faster. That would be a plus for 3.25.

Nope, not me. It isn't really grinding. You do a dungeon here and there, and by the reset you are capped. It is quite casual. I just wish the cap was higher.

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Originally Posted by Synrin

Nope, not me. It isn't really grinding. You do a dungeon here and there, and by the reset you are capped. It is quite casual. I just wish the cap was higher.

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This. I wish the cap was higher too!

I don't grind dungeons, i do 1-2 expert for week and cap with raids / ex / Alex / Hunts and other... I think that red scrips is far WORST a grind.

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