How do you fill the endgame?

I guess this has been asked a million times, but fortunately this is a question with with an evolving answer.

So what do you do?

Raid?
Level crafters?
Level other classes?
Grind for money and work on housing?
Eureka?
Annoy your free company mates?
PvP?
...?

Well, there was a time where I wanted to do Savage and Ultimate. But after several months of pugging O7S, that desire began to lessen. And then, right when I was learning the last phase of O8S, 4.4 dropped and everyone stopped doing it. I asked friends before and after the patch if they could help, but they already had their clears and weren't concerned about it.

So, Raiding has basically become a back burner concern for me. I'm working on O10S now and actually have a static this time, but I don't feel motivated about it. I'd like to go back and clear O8S for the plane and I'd like to clear O12S for the Omega mount, but I'm feeling unconfident such will ever happen (partially due to the DC split that's going to break up my group) and I kinda just have a sour grapes feeling about it lately.

Really, at this point, I'm only collecting all Triple Triad cards and EX mounts, while also getting housing decorations, doing ARR Sightseeing Log, and trying to gear up my jobs which I've gotten all to 70.

I should probably try and work on being a better Tank, but I'm just not too motivated in XIV lately after the aforementioned Savage thing. Mainly I'm just looking forward to Blue Mage so I have something to pour some levels into so it feels like I'm doing something.

Sorry if that turned into a blogpost.

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Originally Posted by Berteaux_Braumegain

Well, there was a time where I wanted to do Savage and Ultimate. But after several months of pugging O7S, that desire began to lessen. And then, right when I was learning the last phase of O8S, 4.4 dropped and everyone stopped doing it. I asked friends before and after the patch if they could help, but they already had their clears and weren't concerned about it.

So, Raiding has basically become a back burner concern for me. I'm working on O10S now and actually have a static this time, but I don't feel motivated about it. I'd like to go back and clear O8S for the plane and I'd like to clear O12S for the Omega mount, but I'm feeling unconfident such will ever happen and I kinda just have a sour grapes feeling about it lately.

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On what Server do you play?
Im always willing to help in a clear attempt. (I cant see your Server on mobile, im sorry.)

Anyway, BTT
I just afk and help people in partyfinder getting clears. Theres nothing better than clearing Chaos with 6/8 new people after almost 7 hours of prog.
Idk. Maybe im insane.

Balmung. I think we're on different Data centers.

For this entire game, mine has been:

Attempting to master more than two star crafting... *sigh*
Maxing all combat classes
Slowly making my house fancy, but I suck at that.

Filling 10 retainers with 20/20 items to sell and making sure to adjust the selling price at least once a day.

1. Try to reach gil cap. I enjoy playing the MB and coming up with, new,cheaper and efficient ways to make loads of gil.
2. Do unsynced runs of old primals for mounts,glam/crafting mats
3. Do unsynced old raids for glam/crafting mats etc
4. Try to clear POTD/HOH solo
5. Overworld side-quests/levequests/achievements etc
6. Come up with new glam outfits

I have fun.

The entire question of "How do you fill end-game?" does not compute for me. It implies that there is nothing to do because I've already finished everything.

This is completely determined by how easily satisfied one is. If you only care about clearing a raid once then having done with it, then you might get bored. In that case I would suggest seeking out a new game with lots of new bosses you can challenge once and be done with them. Same for people who just want to collect all the items.

As for me? I never finish, because I play to learn. I will keep on learning. I will keep on challenging myself, and I will find creative ways to do so. The only time I get bored and want to quit is when I get depressed by how few other people play for the same reasons I do.

When I get UCoB-cleared people joining my O11S solo heal runs just to troll me, I can't help but lose faith in MMO communities as a whole.

I clear content as it's new, though I have yet to clear most EX primals. So I work on my house, have been leveling my crafters and just hang out with a few online friends.

1. I craft. I completed crafting log, which takes a lot of time. I also craft to earn gil or for myself and friends.
2. I fish. I also completed fishing log. Good luck with that :D
3. I collect mounts & minions & emotes & hairstyles & bardings & TT cards. Being a collector needs a lot of grinding and time too so you can do that.
4. You can aim for mentor roulettes or tank mounts etc. It involves number 3 but these are on their own a grind.
5. I have a house and i decorate it patch to patch. I always check new added items.
6. You can also go and collect glamours.
7. You can raid. I tried but too much stress for me but raiding is an option.
8.You can collect ARR & HW & SB relics.
9. You can involve in your FC crafting and craft for your fc and its projects (airships etc)
10. If you didn't, ofc you can level every job in the game.
11. You can aim for achievements and their rewards.
12. And ultimately you can troll in Limsa.

There is infinite things to do in this game if you aren't a type of person who finds "nothing" to do.

I hope you find something for yourself :)

I do quite a bit. I got my crafters to 70 within the first month of the expansion being released. I maxed my gatherers before that. I finished leveling my last job to 70 during Patch 4.1. So all of that stuff I've done.

I do go back and do all the sidequests in an expansion because I like clean maps (need to finish SB - still have some left in Yanxia; also should finish the Postmoogle quests at some point)). I've maxed out all beast tribes. I occasionally join Hunt trains on my server (not that often though). I do roulettes to cap.

Most of my time now is spent raiding. Or doing Extreme primals for mounts. Since I have so much maxed on my main, I tend to play alts, I have 2 in HW's main story right now, and other at various stages in ARR.

I usually do a lot of relics to keep myself busy on my main, but I opted out of Eureka. So unless I do old relics, that's not something I fill my time with.

So there's quite a bit to do, but repetition can get boring so I have to mix in alt adventurers so I'm doing something other than "normal endgame stuff".

With this tier having been out of the way for me and my static most of them are on to play other games, busy with IRL stuff like jobs and really only raid log 1-2 times a week for our weekly clears. Which I might also do as well. But at the moment I've been working towards Honest Gillionare (3/4ths way there), spamming mentor roulette (5 times a day at least) and helping friends farm stuff like EX dogs/birds/gearing their alt jobs.

Doing content with friends is really the only reason that keeps me playing FFXIV and is what fills "end game" for me. And mentor roulette as well, it's extremely satisfying and fun to be able to enjoy old ex trials whenever I get one so I guess that's also another end game content that I do daily.

Im taking a break from it,the game is really lacking content,and since eureka did no appeal me,i kinda had nothign to do for months so yeah,just taking a break away from it

Since I don't raid anymore, and most of the typical "fluff" activities that people list here typically don't interest me (collecting things, finishing xyz log, leveling everything to 70) I actually decided to start a brand-new alt on another server and play through the MSQ again, as well as get some perspective on what the experience is like for newbies now. It's actually been surprisingly fun. My more cynical eye can now see some holes in the narrative and whatnot that I missed the first time around, but being able to redo some class/job quests in particular is pretty awesome. To this day I maintain that the only thing that ever motivates me to level anything to cap beyond healer jobs is the desire to see the job quests. Most of them are pretty great.

I joined the achievement rat race.

You think you're done with the game and then you see the players whose score is well above 15,000 points while you're sitting there at a measly 7000 or so. And then you look at what the achievements actually are and there is SO MUCH TO DO.

Currently grinding out my weaver's crafting log. After that I'll go back to light farming swords for my paladin.