Make FFXIV more like FFXI and less like WoW

[Kittra]

Sometimes when I read people who go on about about FFxi I wonder if we were playing the same game. Artifacts has always been easy to quest, even the originals to the point that even when I quested my first set it took me less than a day to do. Relic armors required you to fight trash mobs and access to zones that required victory in previous zones but even with all that it took me less than a month to get my first full relic. Ironically, the most challenging to get are the Empereon armors which requires that you have to farm pops, pop NMs of varying difficulty, trigger their weaknesses (which require communication and teamwork) or risk not getting the seals... And this was just for the +1, the +2 were even worse.

I think it's because you're remembering how easy it was to get Artifact armor after you got your first job to level 75 and were able to solo all the coffer keys in the dungeons and solo kill most of the bosses (some did require skill to kill at level 75) to get the level 42(?)-60 level pieces.

Now if you tried to get them at the levels where you could actually start to wear them, forget about it being easy. With a full party of people around the same level it was quite the challenge to kill the coffer key monsters, clear the rooms where the coffers themselves were kept, and the NMs for those final pieces of gear were EXTREMELY hard to kill and took a lot of coordination with your team to bring down. In the end you were rewarded with one of the best sets of gear for your job "at that level."

With how long it took to level up in FFXI (till around 2006 when it got a bit easier) AF gear was a primary staple for most people till level 71 when you were able to buy or quest for better gear.

The nostalgic losers (and you know who you are) seem to confuse repetitive tedium for challenge.

I quoted this part separately because the bold part fits current FFXIV mechanics to the T... *sigh*