Am I just crazy or...?

I have been playing Realm Reborn since launch and in that time I have leveled multiple combat classes and crafting classes to level 50. I have had fun doing it and I am just now starting to explore "endgame" content. I have barely any Darklight gear but instead crafted my own Ilvl55 HQ green gear for my classes and melded Materia in to them. I have no AF2, I have about 40 mythology tombstones to my name from farming Ifrit for weapons. I am probably going to log on today and kill Ifrit some more and maybe run Amador Keep for the second time ever. I am going to have fun doing it and tomorrow I will probably craft for money and I will have fun doing it.

I guess I made this thread because I really don't understand why people "rush" content and then complain about how miserable they are. Am I just the odd one out for actually having fun playing a game? Why does everyone feel the need to have the best gear as fast as possible, what are you even using it for? 99% of people who play this game don't even run Coil, I really just don't understand!

Because reasons.

... Sorry OP but this is unnecessary to post now. Players just do what the want. There are various way to enjoy game so don't call out people miserable.

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Originally Posted by Kiroh

Because reasons.

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what this guy said

I must be the only person who is just sick of seeing "Why do you people rush?"
Game is pretty much an easy case to level.

Cool friend Yoshi said this: "The game begins at 50."
Well...there's your initiative right there.
But yeah, it's cool and all you're having fun. Keep enjoying yourself.

i agree with op.

i am tired of reading people bitch about how bored they are or how they have no gil for repairs yet sit on those fancy mounts all day.

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... Sorry OP but this is unnecessary to post now. Players just do what the want. There are various way to enjoy game so don't call out people miserable.

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why can't he, he pays like you do he has a sub he is doing nothing wrong.

Alot of people are being called rushers when that's not even the case now.

Yeah when the game first launched, then a few days later if someone complained, of course that would be a rusher.

At this point in time, even the most casual gamer can be at endgame. Not everyone wants to level all classes. Me I chose 1 battle class 4 crafts (50) and 1 gatherer (34), so I did plenty of other stuff.

The biggest complaint is the repetition of endgame. It doesn't matter if someone is doing AK once a week, or 8 times a week. It's still repetitive weather you take your time or not because thats all there is every time you log in.

There shouldn't be just 1 or 2 ways to get tomes.

Imagine playing final fantasy 7 and only doing the intro mission 8 times a week for 5 months then fighting sephiroth at the end to clear the game.

It's a bad design choice.

You know OP, there comes a time when playing the game isn't considered rushing. You could go at a relative Snail's pace and still clear all the content in the game currently. Just because you decided not to do the content and others decided to clear content, it doesn't mean they rushed.

You say you've leveled multiple combat classes and crafting classes OP. Now imagine all that time dedicated into a single job for endgame.
And there you have it, hardly "rushing"

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Originally Posted by Phaus

You say you've leveled multiple combat classes and crafting classes OP. Now imagine all that time dedicated into a single job for endgame.
And there you have it, hardly "rushing"

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So on the one hand you have a person who for whatever reason ignores one of the basic tenants of this game's design and decides to focus on only one job. They complain that the game has limited content when played this way and would like SE to remake the game to suit them.

Then on the other hand you have someone who 'gets' a Final Fantasy MMO which is to say that they level multiple jobs, craft, and enjoy the variety of content that SE designed the game to offer. They are not bored and are fairly happy playing and having a good time.

So should SE have anticipated an influx of single-minded players from other more singularly-focused MMOs? Or should they expect players to adapt and realize that this game isn't about putting yourself in one mold? Its not like Final Fantasy has ever hidden this aspect. It's never been a 'one-class' game - even in XI.

If you really want to be really useful to your Free Company, the game allows you to level multiple jobs so that when forming a party you can say "I can be a DD or a tank. Or I can be a healer or a DD!" Or even better: "I can be a tank or a DD or I can meld that relic for you! Or I can gather that stuff for your gear!" I guess I like to think Final Fantasy has always been about helping each other in the best way possible than about reaching your own single-minded goals.

Your, crazie

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Originally Posted by Quesse

~Stuff I agree with~

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This is the point I was trying to make as well. I just see so many complaints being made on these forums which are either misinformed and incorrect, or just make no sense from what I know of the game. I wish people did even the smallest bit of research before spending the time to spam the forums and demand things.

It's kind of ironic when some one says people rushed when the OP has 'multiple' level 50s. If you truly were not a rusher, the OP wouldn't even be lvl 50 in anything.

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Originally Posted by Quesse

So on the one hand you have a person who for whatever reason ignores one of the basic tenants of this game's design and decides to focus on only one job.

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Hardly. This game may have encouraged the armory system in 1.0, but the current endgame system does not. Coil? Limited times per week per floor, thus limited gearing up of jobs. Myth? Again, capped per week, and apart from accessories, job specific, meaning even less progress per item than Coil gear. Philosophy? Okay, you got me there. We can gear up a second set of DL gear at about ~50+ runs of CM.

The game's endgame design doesn't encourage multiple jobs unless they share gear. I only leveled PLD because it shares gear with WAR. Would I level BLM or WHM if it meant I couldn't gear them up with myth / Coil gear because I'm decking out WAR? Would I have leveled PLD if it didn't share a lot of WAR gear? Not really, no. I either start coming to events as something other than my main job and get into a situation where I can roll on my main job's gear or my secondary job's gear (but not both because I want to share gear drops with members), or I get into a situation I gear my main job while the secondary one remains sub-par for the content. Or I try to gear both and make tedious progress where a group would benefit from one job being highly geared rather than two half-geared ones.

Moreover, the game does have limited content. Crystal Tower was supposed to be in the game at release. We're missing an entire multi-floor endgame dungeon that was supposed to give us more gearsets and more things to do before venturing into coil. It's perfectly reasonable to point to lack of content when the game didn't ship with everything planned for it. Moreover, leveling in the game isn't hard, and if you're just going to level up one job, you'll hit 50 in no time from casual playing.

The other option if you want to level something else is a crafting or gathering class, but let's be honest here, not everyone wants to do that, and by not wanting to do that, it doesn't mean that they don't "get" a "Final Fantasy MMO." It just means that they have no interest.