SE , Endgame Just Isnt There - Are you going to Re-Sub

[juniglee]

At the end of the day, it's a perspective issue. Personally, I am having a blast at end game, I don't ever feel like I've run out of things to do. This is on the back of me wanting to go play some Batman: Arkham Origins, or the early access of Football Manager 2014, which is coming out next week.

Your needs for Coil includes a raiding time that is convenient to you, and your FC can't provide that. My advice to you would be to either switch FC's, or join some Coil LS, and find like-minded people. Alternatively, you might find it easier to find more Aussies if you switch to Tonberry. Tonberry is pretty much the unofficial Oceanic server. Masamune is the unofficial Legacy Oceanic server.

Like you, I have a life too. I get home at 7pm, and I have to be in bed by 12am or so. Even then, I don't feel like 5 hours a day is enough to do all the things I want to do. Currently I am levelling my BLM, and GSM. Playing as a DPS is a very different experience from playing a tank.

If you're bored of running WP/AK, perhaps try farming Primals as an alternative? The fastest I've cleared Garuda HM with an FC party is about 4.5 minutes (another group using the same tactic was able to clear it in 3 minutes or so). Plus, I do want to get the Garuda's Feather, so I am more than happy to farm Primals. I think I do like 3 or 4 Titan HM's every night. Call me crazy, but I simply love fighting Titan HM. In fact, one of my Coil members capped out his Mythology tomestones simply by Coil and Primals - not a single step into WP/AK for the entire week.

Once again, it's a perspective issue. You can choose to see what the game offers you, or choose to look for what the game does not offer you. I choose to see what the game offers me. Do you see the glass of water as half full or half empty?

[Keyblade]

Your needs for Coil includes a raiding time that is convenient to you, and your FC can't provide that. My advice to you would be to either switch FC's, or join some Coil LS, and find like-minded people. Alternatively, you might find it easier to find more Aussies if you switch to Tonberry. Tonberry is pretty much the unofficial Oceanic server. Masamune is the unofficial Legacy Oceanic server.

Guess we all have to wait for 2.1 and see any hidden changes SE decide to make and Behemoth was actually the unofficial Aussie server to start with not Tonberry. It came after Behemoth got full from all the posts and things i read.
But you can guarentee some hidden changes will happen 2.1 patch

[Dhex]

I'm a little unimpressed - I don't feel like much has changed from 1.0 to 2.0. There's still something goofy with the game's structure with the way it calculates damage/position and how the animations/castbars are not synchronous.


I still do Garuda, and sometimes Ifrit. Titan is there and a pain for the same reasons Ifrit Extreme (1.0) and Nael van Darnus were a pain - odd latency/animation delay what have you.

I still farm endlessly - just instead of doing dungeons for direct RNG drops we grind for Tomes to buy gear, just like we used to grind trash for Tapers/Kupo-nuts/Feathers. Yay for a fleshed out (though rehashed) storyline! Yay for both sexes for all race being included! Yay for nicer UI! Yay for potential DX11 sometime possibly maybe who-the-hell-knows anymore!

Waiting on - or otherwise removed:

No Skirmish - No Faction Leves - No difficulty nor requirement to do Dzemael Darkhold, Aurum Vale, or Cutter's Cry - No Hamlet - No Crystal Tower - No PvP - No Good King Moogle Mog - No Extreme Modes

Lost:

Original Soundtrack is all but vanished. Class effectiveness is null. No large group content (I thought big group content was going to be a staple of this game...)!

I find it a little ironic we're all deemed Adventurers but the world (even 5 years after a massive upheaval and geographic/economic/militaristic restructuring of Eorzea) is entirely explored and tamed. There are roads, towns, camps, and villages all over Eorzea. There's very little wilderness left (the dunes in Southern Thanalan are a nice touch)

Rehashed Storyline was "eh" bordering on "nice" - we lost open world dungeons for level capped direct progression dungeons that really only need be completed once. No more NM hunting -> FATEs. No more EXP burning parties or power leveling - not that I can see much of a difference with FATE. Quests now provide both money and EXP - more quests (many fetch) and loss of longer quest lines (No mention of Hildebrand?)

Atrocious and over-hyped voice acting, but whatever I'm more of a text log and visual person anyway.

All in all FFXIV ARR feels stunted rather than expanded and it's going to either go through growing pains or it's going to fade into ignominy again.


PS: I paid a 3 month sub! I like the people I play with and gladly will continue to sub just to hangout and laugh my ass off with them.

[Starlord]

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2.0 isn't an expansion nor a patch, they basically re-hauled the whole game ( using old and new resources), to make the new FFXIV. In it's own right, it is a new game.

[juniglee]

Guess we all have to wait for 2.1 and see any hidden changes SE decide to make and Behemoth was actually the unofficial Aussie server to start with not Tonberry. It came after Behemoth got full from all the posts and things i read.
But you can guarentee some hidden changes will happen 2.1 patch

People decided to jump to Tonberry (JP), because the pings to the JP datacentre were better than the pings to NA datacentre. As far as I know (I could be wrong), there's an FC called Skyhawks in Tonberry, who were made up of Aussie players previously on Behemoth - they decided to re-roll their characters in Tonberry, before server transfers came out. At least you have an option now with server transfers.

[anceru]

The restriction is there so that you don't run out of things to do while more content is being developed.

The problem is that without the artificial progression cap I COULD farm AF2 in a few days! Why create such a shortsighted endgame reward system where you cannot progress at your own pace but is being told how much you're allowed to do every week?
Isn't it fair to expect to be able to progress at your own speed in a p2p MMO?

Edit note:
I do not consider the game have been released for only 2 months. They've had a very long time to plan endgame features and design for this installment. Since 2011.
And I admit the road to lv 50 was extremely high quality. I enjoyed it very very much.

[Xerius]

Step 1: Sprint to endgame
Step 2: Complain about lack of endgame
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit

[Maqaqa]

Edit: Also, Name 1 AAA MMO that launched with exceptional amounts of content. I would like to see it ( Research it) and maybe perhaps play it.

Almost every mmorpg out there has more content at release.
Just look around, dont make me name one game because you would just flame it

[Keyblade]

Almost every mmorpg out there has more content at release.
Just look around.

The way the game is designed is just flawed. Things not in Duty Finder that should be.
Quests Character not Class Specifc
Dungeons dont give nearly enough XP and take just way to long

ENough Said

[Starlord]

Almost every mmorpg out there has more content at release.
Just look around.

I have yet to see an MMO that came out that has loads of content. Personally. ( FFXI,Aion,WoW,Rift,Tera etc) all didn't have large amounts of content at launch. ( Tera does have an awesome combat system I give it that).

Edit note:
I do not consider the game have been released for only 2 months. They've had a very long time to plan endgame features and design for this installment. Since 2011.
And I admit the road to lv 50 was extremely high quality. I enjoyed it very very much.

I respect your opinion. However, their launch was terrible for 1.0, it took them to 1.20 at least to become playable, then the final 3 patches were to conclude 1.0. In 3 years They didn't have 1 expansion because of their terrible launch that they had to regroup and think about all that happened, and put a plan into action.

In my opinion, FFXIV 2.0 is more of a "Fresh Start" then "Brand new". Heck some things like Moggle Primal Fight didn't make it in the Launch and had to be pushed back to 2.1.

They didn't really have much room to make "new content", since they had to recode the whole game, redesign maps, algorithms, Brand new servers from scratch etc. It's not that the game is New or Old. It has to do with that they had to put all of their energy to take what was already there and reput it back into 2.0, with different lore.