What keeps you playing...

A few months ago, I finally managed to get all the combat jobs to 80 (I had all the crafting/gathering jobs at 80 within a week of ShB launch). Since then, I have obtained all the stage 1 resistance weapons for the combat jobs AND all the relics for DoH/L. I snagged a medium house and spent a good week or so decorating it (Behemoth, Mist, W11, P7 -- check it out! I love it). But now I find myself in a stalemate. I want to keep playing, but I can't think of anything to aim for. I could do the market board game and stock up on gil, but I don't *need* gil for anything. I can either make anything I need, or buy it with alternative currency, such as tomestones.

So my question is this: those of you that find yourself in my position, what keeps you logging in every day? Is there something you've found that has caught -- and kept -- your interest that I'm not thinking of?

Savage? Ultimates? Chocobo breeding/racing? Mount farms? Eureka and other relics? Etc.. This game doesn't lack content.

I'm almost done with everything (I care about) and will basically just be logging in weekly to play with friends or cap tombstones until more content is released. That's also an option you can explore.

There's an entire long to do list under /achievements
Pick one and go for it! :D

I don't think I was clear in my post... I'm not asking what is left for me to do... I'm asking, what do you (people reading) do when they've accomplished all that stuff. I'm aware there's achievements, I'm aware there's savage, yadda yadda yadda. I know that stuff is there. I'm more curious what people are doing in their downtime to stay-the-course.

This isn't a lack-of-content thread, though I shouldn't be surprised that people would immediately jump to that.

I'm an altaholic. I've always got stuff to do. And my main has all her war/magic at 80. I still have 6 crafts at 70 kind of waiting on the new tribes to finish leveling them. Currently leveling Pally and GNB and two alts. I play this game way to much.

I didn't even think of alts. I could probably do that as well. I'm sure that'd be a neat experience. My first time through I literally gave zero f's about the story. Perhaps with an alt, I could give it a chance! Thanks for the idea, Layla.

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Originally Posted by Novak_04

I didn't even think of alts. I could probably do that as well. I'm sure that'd be a neat experience. My first time through I literally gave zero f's about the story. Perhaps with an alt, I could give it a chance! Thanks for the idea, Layla.

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If you decide to do an alt might want to wait for 5.3 and the new ARR revision which is probably something neat to experience. I suspect the new patch will be here in a few weeks. Optimistically around the middle of July... we'll have to wait for next week for an official release date.

notthing, blue mage probably but i got all the spells and i found the update to blue most enjoyable i had in Shadowbringers ( and Titania). They ruined AST for me, crafting, linear duegons, mounts are not exciting..The Overworld is a bore , never dangerous..., the eden raid isnt exciting for me either

so im playing XI and im loving it so much, it give me my fix i need, only reason why im here is because my friend payed for my xiv sub to help her with blue.

also Rothgars are hot to look at

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Originally Posted by Jkap_Goat

notthing, blue mage probably but i got all the spells and i found the update to blue most enjoyable i had in Shadowbringers ( and Titania). They ruined AST for me, crafting, linear duegons, mounts are not exciting..The Overworld is a bore , never dangerous..., the eden raid isnt exciting for me either

so im playing XI and im loving it so much, it give me my fix i need, only reason why im here is because my friend payed for my xiv sub to help her with blue.

also Rothgars are hot to look at

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I hear XI is a fun one. I've been busy with Heroes of the Storm, as of late.

Also, Behemoth isn't accepting any new characters at the moment.... omegasadface to the alt idea. :(

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Originally Posted by Novak_04

Also, Behemoth isn't accepting any new characters at the moment.... omegasadface to the alt idea. :(

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Could just make one on another world in the same data centre, I guess? Though you can't join the same FC as your main...

everything else sucks tbh ... i had hope ff7 would last me a good bit on the remake but nooo it had to just be the opening on ff7 lol

I lost a bet.

jk

I enjoy the game and hours of /pointing at a fellow fc mate.

It used to be friends, but since those don't exist anymore, all the stuff I have yet to accomplish in it.

The activities I enjoy, I enjoy by process of intrinsic motivation, rather than extrinsic. If it's not fun, it is hard to talk me into doing it. So, for example, unless playing with friends you couldn't get me to sell my soul for the MSQ roulette. None of that is intended to be fun and the solution being to watch YouTube or check your IMs or something to pass the time is a no go. That's lame.

On the other hand, I enjoy PvP a lot so I can log on for a few games to take a break from work. That is how I got a lot of my jobs to 80; figure if I am going to go PvP, may as well get the XP on something I don't plan to play and get a free mount out of it. I also enjoy the housing stuff more than a lot of games dedicated to it. Nothing is ever really done; I've changed my medium around a lot and take projects to deco for others all the time. Also Gold Saucer is fun in moderation. Lastly, even if all my stuff is 80 and I have all the equipment I could want (I only prioritize gearing WAR), I do a normal raid or something every day just to keep my skills sharp and genuinely enjoy it. Playing with friends is fun, too.

Though like, I also couldn't do the thing where people play for 5 or even 10+ hrs a day. So many books I want to read, games I want to play, art stuff I want to do, skills I want to learn... I imagine the game is still fun for me because I have avoided burnout. If it's not fun I just do something else. I log onto FFXIV if I want a specific experience it can provide.

It's a weird psychology people get where they feel handcuffed to an MMO when we are in an era where you can get thousands of works that are 100% free to read or watch translated in your language but they rather stare at FFXIV asking what they can do next.

from technical standpoint, FF14 is one of the mmorpg that i can play with 100ish latency (the others is BDO, archeage, etc but i have zero interest in that game)

FF14 and PSO2 is currently my mmorpg that i can enjoy right now, and i love the stark contrast between these 2, FF14 is casual and slow pacing game when it come to combat, while PSO2 is also casual but the battle is fast paced and action oriented.

and both game are very weeb so its basically in my realm lol

I'm in a similiar position like you.
My self set goal right now is to level up my trusts to level 80 and after that I will probably go back and work on my squadron. Never did much with them ever since I go them to max level.

I also set myself to only do 1-2 dungeons / 1-1.5 hours a day at max (if I play at all) to not brun out.

Arcanist Summoner Scholar and their lore keeps me in the game. They are doing a terrible job lately though TT

Well I do take a lot more breaks than I did in the past. (ARR + HW I dont think I took one..especially since I wanted the veteran rewards..) Inbetween the breaks I have made me a list of doing the old relics (minus Eureka) and I also like to craft most of the stuff at least once.

Right now I am doing at least every FC workshop item once..finished with the airships and now I am doing the houses..which has given me a huge list of insane amounts of mats to gather (why I am doing that again?). For example 21k iron ore..I probably wont be finished until the next patch drops.

Other stuff I am going to do afterwards: Crafting new recipes, maybe finally doing more PotD runs and doing the relics..

Honestly if there wasnt these self imposed goals I would probably take even more breaks (sadly I do own houses so I cant take too much). Doing a lot of the achievement stuff isnt fun (and I still will reach 13k points soon) and a lot of them are over the top grindy..A friend of mine is doing the Ishgard stuff right now and the amount of rages from him..

@Edit: But the only reason I am able to do this: I watch a lot of stuff next to it. Which is at least a great way to combine things..because with other games I play them fully but I also have a long list of lets plays to finish..so with FF14 I do both. So its not a complete waste just gathering stuff for hours.

People close to me.

A mix of habit, friends and stuff thats yet to be accomplished.

One of the things I enjoy most is that FFXIV is a game I know pretty well by now - which makes it perfect for times when I'm not feeling like I have it in me to actually get into a new game (because I'm to tired, short on time, just not in the right mood...). And there are usually a couple of those moments each week.
I used to play a lot more, but dont have as much as I want to accomplish anymore left - there are still a few grinds left, though. So whenever I need a break from work etc. I'll hop into FFXIV, turn on a podcast and do some Ishgard expert crafts for half an hour. Or my partner and I will run the occassional roulette on an evening when we cant quite make up our minds about what we actually want to do. Or I'll do some mentor roulettes or try some PvP...

In short: FFXIV is so familiar that I can just jump in for 30 minutes, do something and log off again - or, if I have more time, there are quite a few things that can keep me busy for hours (on top of Savage raiding with our casual static twice a week). I suppose what keeps me playing is, in a sense, a feeling of "home"? Its relaxing to jump into a game where I know the ins and outs like the back of my hand, dont need to read tutorials or learn new stuff.

On broader terms: The story, mainly - though I dont count that for the times between patches, since I could just resub with every new story-patch aswell...

Friends, dragon/tank mount farm on my main + I have 4 alts.

I'm not feeling that I need to leave anytime soon, I'm addicted to tanking~

I'm working on Astrope, I find it fun bringing me back to random old nostalgic contents. (getting Prae/Castrum sucks tho)

else I just do some random crafting/gathering since I like them.

If you feel like you've done everything, why not help someone else do everything? I like joining PF's to help people clear stuff, cooperation is a strength of MMO's.

Oh, don't misunderstand, I certainly haven't done everything... I've just accomplished my current goals. I'm hoping to hear what others are doing and perhaps I'll be turned on to something I hadn't thought of before. This is entirely for my benefit. I'm just see what sort of things people do during the downtime that keeps them subbed! As of right now, keeping my house is the only thing I have going for me. I think we're still in the grace period of no auto-demo, but I don't want to risk it.

Personally I love the gameplay. It's enough for me to blow out some dungeons, craft some HQs, and maybe get blitzed in PVP a few times. Also before I get geared decently, breaking/trying to break the SSS dummies has always been fun to me.

So fun, I guess. So if you're not having fun I guess, or if you really need a goal to work towards uhh...

I also tend to level the combat classes I favor multiple times via alts, cause I like leveling up. This also leads me to try soloing POTD and HoH quite a lot more than I should.

Mounts, minions, gear, and my FC duties. Especially the latter.

Achievements I care about. My last achievement was amaro mount. Currently i'm working on the ozma mount, so Eureka farming. I think my next one will be ultimate but still not sure. Problem is my free evening are not predictable so finding a good group will be though. Glaming my last unglamed jobs is on my todo list too. Minions farming too. Triple triad cards are always in the back of my mind when I wait for group content to pop. And the fishing achievement (dont' recall the name) also, don't know if i'll ever achieve that thou.

No matter how much I finish there's one thing I can never fully check off of my personal to do list:
Glamours.
#TrueEndGame

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Originally Posted by PyurBlue

If you feel like you've done everything, why not help someone else do everything? I like joining PF's to help people clear stuff, cooperation is a strength of MMO's.

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Hah. I on the other hand think dealing with other people in MMOs is the reason i hate other people. Truly, the horror.

Just like any other MMO the actual MMO endgame is collecting mounts and transmog. Every once and awhile I give Necromancer a shot and work through getting the different beast tribes to the highest level. Mostly mount collecting honestly.

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Originally Posted by Puremallace

Every once and awhile I give Necromancer a shot

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Ho ho ho jeez. I can't even sit on the bench, let alone solo it.
That's a brutal goal. Good luck yo.

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Originally Posted by Quintessa

I'm not feeling that I need to leave anytime soon, I'm addicted to tanking~

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you said you played XI for 15 years, was you a tank as well like Runefencer?