1.18 itself most likely will not be the saving grace. When all battle reforms have been made, the Job System, and etc. have been implemented and they can start releasing content, that's when I can make judgement whether or not this game is going in the right direction at the right pace.

As it stands now. I'm quite the busy person in real life, so I hardly have time to play, but when I do have time, I enjoy the game and can play it for about 8 hours in one go. However, as I've recently gotten my Pugilist to 50, I've started to experience that feeling where leveling other classes to 50 so soon will ruin the game for me. So in other words, I am hoping that they release content that doesn't revolve around ranking up your classes. They really just need to implement content outside of that box, and just for fun.