FF14 needs an end game for solo players (suggestions included)

[Tenku]

I dunno, I heard something about an update with new content on say December 17th-ish...

The 2.1 update on December 17th is more instance grinding and no open world content. Actually, I'm the leader of an FC and we spend a lot of time trying to help other people because we're all at the weekly Coil stage. I literally dedicate at least 2 to 3 nights a week shouting to see if anybody needs help with Titan HM to combat the sellers. I'm having a difficult time keeping my teammates active because there's nothing else for them to do except wait for Coil. We did not rush through the content. We took our sweet time, but the game is just too incredibly easy and so fast to level up.

It took me 2 days at most (not full days) to get each of my DoW/DoM classes from 30 to 50. It took me 4 days at most to get each of my DoH classes to 50.

As for the open world NM's everywhere comment; they can easily avoid that. Why not make normal monsters drop unique seals. Collect enough of the unique seals and you can spawn an NM that works like the leves where only you can attack. This game is lacking rare items that are WORTH obtaining through solo play like in Final Fantasy 11, Ragnarok Online, Lineage 2. Basically, all these newer MMO and WOW clones lack substance. Final Fantasy 14 is doing great and is wonderful up to a point, but the life span of this game is so short between content updates that I'm afraid subscriptions will drop fast.