From Epic story to Boring Grind Why I quit FFXIV.

[vigilante]

After running Castrum for 40 hours, which is completely insane to expect players to do, and yes I know there are other ways to earn tomes but lets be honest non are as efficient as running Castrum in either time or tomes gained, I had already felt my desire to play FFXIV waning. However, I pushed on Chimera, Hydra, and Garuda rekindled the desire and I once again started crafting/gathering/leveling other jobs/and running AK. It was the last thing that did in the game for me. I realized that even if I capped out the tomes each week for AK It would take me around 4 months to get my Valor set. I had to ask myself if I could grind jobs/castrum for another 50 hours per job for my DL set/ and AK again for 4 more months if I ever wanted to switch jobs. I understand why they put caps in. I get that they dont want players to burn through content to fast but asking players to run AK for 4 months is insanity.

your allready bored and yet you still havent even reached end game not even relic for that matter you dont have to grind CM only there are mor options and after update its going to be even easier and if your aiming at only Valor set well gl i rather save myth for weapon upgrades

if you want to quit leave allready and stop crying about how the game is when you havent reach all the content the game has to offer and the other content that will come such as crystal tower

[SolviteSekai]

After this update people will still run the fastest dungeon to get tomes from and complain that there aren't any other VIABLE dungeons.

VIABLE.

[Veerne]

40 hours of CM + whatever it took to reach 50 (50 to 100 hours?). Sounds like great value for non-full price game!

[Nithryok]

your allready bored and yet you still havent even reached end game not even relic for that matter you dont have to grind CM only there are mor options and after update its going to be even easier and if your aiming at only Valor set well gl i rather save myth for weapon upgrades

if you want to quit leave allready and stop crying about how the game is when you havent reach all the content the game has to offer and the other content that will come such as crystal tower

Crystal tower is going to be ilvl 80 gear, what is the point when alot of people can get/have ilvl 90 already in almost 1/2 there slots?

[Seralesca]

yup this almost happened to me. good thing i reached bahamut's coil. before my sub went off... imo i think they should shorten the "grind" or give more dungeons for players to do after the story and let players experience the primal HMs then try BC.

AK and CM is fun but at least add some variety that is worth running. kinda short solution that i can think of is to limit of getting tombstones for AK and CM to 2 runs per week and ALL the previous dungeons have hard mode and also drop tombstones also has a 2 time limit of getting tombstones.

(2 time limit of getting tombstones) but you can still enter the dungeon if you wanna help your friends etc. same thing should happen in BC (limit the loot you can get but you can still enter)

[Veerne]

Crystal tower is going to be ilvl 80 gear, what is the point when alot of people can get/have ilvl 90 already in almost 1/2 there slots?

Do it because its new content? Does everything have to be about getting new gear?

[SolviteSekai]

Crystal tower is going to be ilvl 80 gear, what is the point when alot of people can get/have ilvl 90 already in almost 1/2 there slots?

2.1 should be out in November. Most of the playerbase is stuck on Titan. I doubt anyone will be getting i90 in half their slots by November.

[Jess72]

oh look another person deciding on rushing everything at once instead of enjoying the game and its content for what is is~

People need to really stop assuming this... at this point it's not "rushing everything" it's the fact that once u finish story you are stuck doing CM/Prae/AK for efficient tome grinding.

It's a stupid and boring process that Square didn't really think through...

Solution would be to add level 80 versions of all the 1-45 dungeons and award players with 100 tomes for completion.

[SolviteSekai]

People need to really stop assuming this... at this point it's not "rushing everything" it's the fact that once u finish story you are stuck doing CM/Prae/AK for /efficient/ tome grinding.

It's a stupid and boring process that Square didn't really think through...

Solution would be to add level 80 versions of all the 1-45 dungeons and award players with 100 tomes for completion.

Efficient. Ways. To. Get. Tomes.

If they added level 80 versions of the dungeons, you would still run Castrum because it is the fastest and you can skip all the mobs.

You are the problem. Not the game. Not Square. You're refusal to do anything but what you personally consider "Efficient" is the problem.

Stop expecting Square to make a game specifically for you, and realize that this game has to last a large group of people for a long time.

[Kuvu]

Why dont these people realize that in 4 months there will be new sets of gear to obtain?

You wont need 4 months to obtain gear on every character because there is an update every three months.

Use your brains.

I agree with you, so in 4 months the gear that you run AK for countless times is going to be useless and now we have to grind CT for 4 months to get more gear that will be useless by then. No matter how you spell it, after you hit lvl 50 the game is boring, honestly how can you look at running AK for 300 tomes every week fun?There is no end game content at all to keep people interested "unless" you are in a coil FC or such and then you get to run it till you beat it(lock out) and then what is there to do? O ya run AK but why since you are capped on tokens and the gear in there cant be traded sold or even broken down so its pointless (les not forget that we can turn them in for GC seals, O but wait we cap at 50k and there is NOTHING to buy beside the hatchling so thats pointless). Not just what i mentioned but lets throw in another job, so its going to take you 4 months of farming myth tokens to gear up 1 class and now lets say we have 3 more jobs to 50 and we are what, looking at a year to gear those other 3 up not counting the 4 months for our first job. The current wow standard of gear does not work with this game's multi class system on one character.

Also this has nothing to do with rushing, you can hit 50 in 5 days of playing less if you just run fates, heck i took BLM to 30 in one day just doing fates, leveling in this game is easy as heck, there is no challenge and that is part of the problem. I dont see how people can honestly call something new content by just slapping "EXTREME" on it and making it harder, no matter what its still the same mob ( talking about the extreme modes coming) thats going to do the same stuff just maybe in a different order and do more damage.

The game is stale and it doesn't look to be getting any better any time soon.

Efficient. Ways. To. Get. Tomes.

If they added level 80 versions of the dungeons, you would still run Castrum because it is the fastest and you can skip all the mobs.

You are the problem. Not the game. Not Square. You're refusal to do anything but what you personally consider "Efficient" is the problem.

Stop expecting Square to make a game specifically for you, and realize that this game has to last a large group of people for a long time.

Your whole post screams fan boi all over it (not just this one either). If you are forced to do something to achieve a goal are you not going to do it the most efficient way possible? or would you rather people just slam their heads against a wall lol. What the person is talking about is variety, something different to do other then grind AK to cap each week or run CM to cap. If you would pull your head out of the Squares behind you would see that the game is bland once you get past the O' pretty pretty stage and hit the grind. Just by looking at you on the loadestone it seems you just mapped AK yesterday.... so honestly you have no foot to stand on to come in here spouting your fan boi isms when you haven't even experienced what most in this post are talking about.

Crystal tower is going to be ilvl 80 gear, what is the point when alot of people can get/have ilvl 90 already in almost 1/2 there slots?

We have a winner. I agree how loot being a moot point in CT, it will be nice to see something new but after the new has worn off what reason is there to go back? Since the gear wont be an upgrade we are back to running AK for myth tomes as it stands now. I am not saying CT wouldnt be a source of tomes but if we go off how many you get from running the coil, i am guessing it wouldn't be worth the trouble to run it just for tomes.