Weekly content for the less hardcore

Greetings,
I think I can categorize myself as a hardcore player, whenever I have the chance I might play 10hours++.
Right now I'm in a static where we spend 2-3 days a week about 3 hours raiding and we just finally cleared t5 yesterday.

Thing is, it is very understandable that people do have stuff to attend to and as more and more content is being added I wonder if eventually it would be pretty overwhelming for an entire week? You have CT, daily beastmen, Coil, primals.. Soon there's going to be levi xm, and probably shiva xm, probably another one for a guaranteed i95 weapon or accessory just so it finishes the trilogy, and coil turn 6.. And then when another next patch hits there'd be even more(new CT turns..)!

How do you guys think about this? Will you be completing everything? With all the training required (twintania took us 6 weeks >_< all that tasty loot) I'm starting to think I might get overwhelmed, I'd be very disappointed if let's say i couldn't beat titan by monday or get a good enough group that's well coordinated. I'm a collector, I collect all green unique loot since sastasha-coil, and I plan to eventually catch em all..

Dude, even "less hardcore" in this game would mean literally giving you the gears as soon you log in.

I'm sorry, I think you missed my point.. I wasn't asking for a weekly content to be made for the less hardcore, I was wondering how you guys that have less time to spare but are very passionate about the game cope with it, IE you don't want to get behind but have limited play time.

The devs must really love this post. Someone complaining that there is too much to do in a mmo, I don't even.

My friend, the content in this game is designed so that you will have something to do until the next major patch. Not to finish within two weeks and then stand with nothing to do as per most mmos this day and age.

I can't do everything in a single day, since I am now back to work (how I miss thee, December break).

In any case, I just have a list of priorities I try to follow and complete by the end of the day.

It goes like this:
- DR high for mythos (once capped, not so much of a priority)
- DR low for training my Marauder (once Myth is capped, this becomes the #1 priority)
- Gathering treasure map (I don't have to use it immediately, but I have at least a 2 days leeway before I am finally forced to go complete the Peisteskin map)
- Beastmen dailies (if not finish them then, at least accept the quest and do it the next day, so as not to waste the allowances)

I'm finding it hard to even spend time to help FC mates, or even get back on my dungeon spiritbonding runs. The weekend is usually when I start to chase more goals.

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Originally Posted by Richiealvian

I'm sorry, I think you missed my point.. I wasn't asking for a weekly content to be made for the less hardcore, I was wondering how you guys that have less time to spare but are very passionate about the game cope with it, IE you don't want to get behind but have limited play time.

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Like any mmorpg, you don't have to do all content each week. Granted, this game progression is linear as fuck, but it's not like beating Ifrit exe every week makes you stronger or anything.

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Originally Posted by Richiealvian

I'm sorry, I think you missed my point.. I wasn't asking for a weekly content to be made for the less hardcore, I was wondering how you guys that have less time to spare but are very passionate about the game cope with it, IE you don't want to get behind but have limited play time.

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I honestly don't care if i'm "behind" anyone else. All i care about is having fun. What i tend to do is grab dailies from one tribe, run guildhest on lower class, then low level dungeon on same, depending on how fast that went, i either do the dailies (if i haven't done them while waiting), or log out. When i come back, i run main story on my main class, if i haven't gotten a CT drop, i'll try to do that. There are some days i have more time, so i might run a HM primal, extra CT, work on crafting or gathering, but i never worry about being behind anyone else. If i'm making progress on anything, and having fun, which sometimes is just goofing around, i'm good.

See when they add Levi and Shiva and more turns and whatnot the OLD turns/primals become inferior so if you are up to date on your gear then you aren't doing EVERYTHING, by the time they come out you should be pretty much done with the old content and trying to down the new. Especially in terms of primals since there is only 9 weapons to get so give it 2 months and there is no point in doing Ifrit/Titan/Garuda again.

..I deal with it by not doing mindlessly repetitive stuff.

I like the game, but I don't bother doing dailies- I hated them in WoW, they aren't better here.

I don't bother with myth caps, because running the same dungeons over and over is mindless and repetitive.

I've done the new stuff... I am from an older era of gaming where the game had lots of fun stuff to do with variety... or if you did grind, it was a social event, where you were with people from your server and got to know them while you grinded- not a DF spamfest with silent strangers that offered no social opportunities.

So, yeah. I'm pretty much done with the current content- but can't wait for something new...and by new I mean actually new -not re-hashed or another theme park dungeon instance.

The ironic thing is that the more skilled your group (and therefore more hardcore to use a word I hate) the less time you need to set aside to get content done. 1-5 and em primals is a 2 hour one night a week job for my static, while if you were casual you'll be sitting in wineport all night looking for people who don't fail at t4.

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Originally Posted by SarcasmMisser

The ironic thing is that the more skilled your group (and therefore more hardcore to use a word I hate) the less time you need to set aside to get content done. 1-5 and em primals is a 2 hour one night a week job for my static, while if you were casual you'll be sitting in wineport all night looking for people who don't fail at t4.

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I agree! There was one time I missed my static run cause I overslept, and we all had quite packed schedules that week, and I spent my weekend pugging t4 for 14 hours straight before I finally won. It would've taken us 15 minutes with my group :(

And yeah, I guess you guys are right, once new content comes out old ones become obsolete..

What i do are the beast man dailies, and leveling my pug.

I also do ct as well. If I don't get lancer gear for that week I just get one for my other classes

I've neglected to do the beastmen dailies since the first set I did when I unlocked them, on account of SWTOR's dailies burning me out. Sometimes I end up sitting around crafting for whatever reason (be it for a fellow FC member or for money), running dungeons/raids for kicks (I love CT's music so much), slamming my head against EM Titan (survived through a whole post-heart rotation yesterday, yay!), or simply just chatting.

Like someone who posted before me, I'm here to have fun, not be the best (although for me that's part of the fun). Despite having 11 50's (BLM, WHM, all crafts, MIN) right now, I'd say I'm not even halfway through what I perceive to be content. I've been screwing around so much that I've only just gotten to the point where I'm ready to take on Twintania, but so what? I'm enjoying myself, and unless something crazy happens, it'll stay that way.

Also, I'll leave this quote here...

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Life is a journey, not a destination.

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― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Originally Posted by Richiealvian

I'm sorry, I think you missed my point.. I wasn't asking for a weekly content to be made for the less hardcore, I was wondering how you guys that have less time to spare but are very passionate about the game cope with it, IE you don't want to get behind but have limited play time.

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How can anyone think a game you can finish all endgame in a matter of a few hours, be on a path towards overwhelming?

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Originally Posted by Otoha

How can anyone think a game you can finish all endgame in a matter of a few hours, be on a path towards overwhelming?

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That's what I don't get... if you are hardcore, you finish it quickly and are done for the week.

I'm not hard core, so now that I have seen the content simply playing it over and over again to farm to try to be "the best" holds no interest to me.

I really can't see why so many people are willing to repeat a mindless repetitive task if it is disguised as a "daily" quest, but then complain that an experience grind is "bad".

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Originally Posted by Otoha

How can anyone think a game you can finish all endgame in a matter of a few hours, be on a path towards overwhelming?

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Few hours usually refers to something in the realm of 6 - 8 hours...

It takes me 4 - 5 hours a day to do what I want to do, and that's leaving out some stuff as well...unfortunately, not everyone has 10 - 12 hours of free time a day.

You have to kind of look at it along the lines of what it entails for someone to join a game late into it's life. There will be tons of stuff for them to do, possibly overwhelmingly so. Someone taking their time on the game (in a manner that's slower than the designers supply content for), their load of content will fall in-line with someone who joins late. It's essentially the same thing. Being overwhelmed by content in a video game is a perspective thing. Are you looking at the game like a "race"? A challenge against time. You're going to be overwhelmed. Are you looking at the game as something to just have fun with? You're going to love the oodles of things you can do and work towards.