Skip-able Content and Variety

First off FFXIV was a great single player experience, storyline, etc. The MMO side of it could use a little work and I'm just posting this to try and be of some help

Content that is skip-able, is not content. Mobs that are within inches of my character cannot detect me (I speak of the many guards in Castrum Meridianum) and this is obviously not intentional to the dungeon design. You are using the FFXI way of "sight based aggro" which does not work in a dungeon game like XIV

My solution is make mobs unskip-able and boost philosophy tomes to 200 or 250 per run, and that is NOT unreasonable. (This is dungeons like CM. AK Should be 150 philosophy and 50 mythology or so) Just force people to do the content and reward a higher amount of tomes, that's it

Edited the part out about Variety since I'm only going to get cheap shots about it like the post below. For now this will remain about the skip-able mobs.

Yeah SoE should have known better than to release FFXIV without 7 expansions.

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Originally Posted by SolviteSekai

Yeah SoE should have known better than to release FFXIV without 7 expansions.

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Figured I would get a reply like this. Should try something new, pun intended.

Why don't you talk about the real issue of mobs not being able to detect someone walking 10 inches behind them and speed running of dungeons?

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Originally Posted by VahnValbosce

Figured I would get a reply like this. Should try something new, pun intended.

Why don't you talk about the real issue of mobs not being able to detect someone walking 10 inches behind them and speed running of dungeons?

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There was no pun in that statement. Also, while I am sure SE is very honored that you've taken it upon yourself to help with development, for the sake of others, don't. No one in the history of MMOs enjoys clearing trash, why would you complain? Also another correction, content that is skippable, is irrelevant. Meaning, don't worry about it.

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Synonyms for irrelevant

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not connected with
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sounds like a great way to describe the current state of endgame no? How can people wanting a game to play not worry?

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Originally Posted by Acaelus

No one in the history of MMOs enjoys clearing trash, why would you complain? Also another correction, content that is skippable, is irrelevant. Meaning, don't worry about it.

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You're saying that it's ok to have mobs that are there to just dodge? Why not just remove the mobs so that people don't accidentally aggro them and complain and cry about how the dungeon is going to take longer because they have to fight for 45 more seconds. Lol these forums are just pointless, I mention maybe that more than 1 dungeon would be nice, maybe 2 or 3 dungeons and I get hit with "OMG You want Seven !#%^'ing expansions!" That's some over exaggerated nonsense lol.

Here let me take that logic and use it to my advantage. Heck why is there even trash in the first place? Why not just have 3 rooms connected to eachother and there's a boss in each room? The rooms can look the same and it's just 3 boss fights, no trash at all. Sound good?