How fast will 2.1's content be completed?

[Tupsi]

Only if they do a video how they beat all extreme primals, hard dungeons, CT, find all treasures, do all beastmen quest and fill the house up with furnitures in only 1 day.

You severely underestimate either the playerbase or overestimate SE's definition of "hard" - Haukke, Copperbell and Pharos will be completed within hours, remember the only "hard" part of these dungeons will be figuring out Gimmicks if any. Treasure charts isn't really content..it's an activity. Beastmen Quests are just side activities which isn't going to progress your character. Housing isn't content as that doesn't progress your character, it's something to do.

CT will take only a day depending, once again, on gimmicks. The only thing preventing content from being cleared within a day? Emergency Maintenance. Extreme Primals, like their hard mode counterparts, are purely up to mechanics so these will be cleared by extremely geared and skilled people in a day or two, but don't expect this content to last long aside for the ones who go at snails pace - Those players that aren't even done with 1.x content. Even moogles will be done fairly quickly given the item level requirement.

Isn't CT about 100 floors total with more floors being unlocked per patch?

No, you're thinking Nyzul Isle from FFXI - It's impossible for SE to have thrown in a 100 floor content this soon, we're not even going to see all of the bosses they mentioned from FFIII showing up this patch so it'd be 100 floors of reused 1.x-2.0 monsters with Ach. as the final CT boss of this patch if we did have 100 floors, but I'm betting it's more like the how Praetorium was - Just a couple of sections.

[Orophin]

I'll give a moderate guess of no more than a week to complete all the new content by the hardcore crowd. After that it's on them to decide whether it's worth continuing to do or if they'll just keep doing Coil. I imagine people will continue to do the Primals since they award a relic+1 equivalent weapon every week and they may continue to do CT for alt gear.

[Royal]

One day CT and HM dungeons will be cleared. CT will be a joke with 4 bosses and being DFable with ilvl 55 (can't remember) requirement. I give 1 day for hardcores to clear EM primals and 1 week before it is puggable. Granted the pugs will be asking for coil geared people but pugs will happen nonetheless.

[Gilthas]

If by complete the new content you mean "being able to beat everything added at least once", it shouldn't take more than a day.

This is what I don't get. If casuals complete content at such a slow pace then why do they need 8x the content that hardcore players get? Every patch will have casual content, likely 4+ different types, yet hardcore progression-oriented players get 1 thing every other patch, when they're the ones clearing stuff faster. How does that make any sense?

Hardcore players are likely to be around 5% of the playerbase (and I'm certain that I'm being very generous with that estimate).

Housing isn't content as that doesn't progress your character, it's something to do.

You have an interesting definition of content there.

Housing is content, just not progression content.

So what? It's easy as hell to keep casuals occupied. Why not put some more effort into pleasing hardcore players so their revenue goes up 5%?

Both crowds happy, holy sh!t! Oh wait... nevermind. Casuals are never happy unless hardcores have nothing to do. How could I be so ignorant? =/

Because their revenue wouldn't go up 5%, it'd probably go down due to all the resources they'd have to spend making content for that 5% group.

[zdub303]

HM Dungeons and Moogle will be cleared within an hour. However, those are i55 encounters and shouldn't require much thought at all. I suspect most players going in will clear it right away.

CT is raid finder... so I expect also about an hour to clear it barring server maint and boss bugs.

EM Primals and HM Ultima? Remember these are i65 - i70 encounters, meaning those of us that are around i85 (quite a few nowadays depending on coil drops) will be so overgeared we will probably blow through them. I'll be surprised if it takes my group more than a 3-4 days to very casually clear them. World firsts for those will be within 4-6 hours from release I suspect (barring server maint and bugs).

[Sygmaelle]

Content will be completed in approximately 24 hours by all the hardcores that gonna create a thread on how bad the patch is, takin in consideration they had to resub to profit of.

Do I win ?

gear progression is kind of the purpose of MMOs.

Like, really ?

I thought beein extremely good with your class and slap people, in term of results, that got twice your gear was the purpose. People lied to me Im so sad

[Velev]

My best guess would be a week or so.

I'm sure some will beat that and some a few days longer but on average i would say the content would be last enough for the average player till close to the next patch.

[permbanned]

Hardcore players are likely to be around 5% of the playerbase (and I'm certain that I'm being very generous with that estimate).

So what? It's easy as hell to keep casuals occupied. Why not put some more effort into pleasing hardcore players so their revenue goes up 5%?

Both crowds happy, holy sh!t! Oh wait... nevermind. Casuals are never happy unless hardcores have nothing to do. How could I be so ignorant? =/

[Sygmaelle]

World firsts for those will be within 4-6 hours from release I suspect

That gotta be the most unrealistic thing I've read today. Titan Extreme gonna take people at least 6 hours, and how about Ifrit EX with the 16 nails, takin in account that Holy gonna be nerfed along with flare beein fixed ?

Coils of Bahamut is a Ilvl 70 requirement. So far not a single guild did an acceptable speed run of it with mostly ilvl 70 gear, and it took more than one week I think to get the first 4 turns down with like close to zero serious difficulty involved compared to what you can find in other mmos. You guys and your high horses, lol

"zomg we got the gear is gunna be such a joke"

[zdub303]

That gotta be the most unrealistic thing I've read today. Titan Extreme gonna take people at least 6 hours, and how about Ifrit EX with the 16 nails, takin in account that Holy gonna be nerfed along with flare beein fixed ?

Coils of Bahamut is a Ilvl 70 requirement. So far not a single guild did an acceptable speed run of it with mostly ilvl 70 gear. You guys and your high horses, lol

By people in full i90 with i95 allagan weapons? You, like SE, seriously underestimate hardcore raiders.

If we were gear synced down to i70 I would agree with you, but stat inflation will make EX primals relatively trivial for at least a single group of 8 to get world first.