Gear Progression after 2.2

[NyneAlexander]

This principle also applies to just about everything else in society. Which is good. Because I don't want to pay $50,000 for a 200 MB hard drive like they once cost.

I feel this. I work in digital media. My boss was telling me a story where he basically took the physical composite hardware and threw it in the trash. It essentially did in the 90s what Adobe After Effects does now. At the time, it cost over $120,000. Thats like throwing away an entire house. But thats just the way it is.

[Lumiin]

Useless is a very interesting word to use.

My Main is almost in full 90, but I can't see all my valor gear being useless as I will not instantaneously be in the new gear. I have that THE WORST luck with Coil (look at my gear, I have 0 coil gear), and don't foresee myself getting coil gear in the next turns unless my luck changes. At this point, I am content with my Mythology gear and will use it for the very purpose I got it: To be ahead of the curve when it comes to the next patch.

Useless as in its not the top any more. It's just throw away gear (Even though all gear until you reach the highest level the game is going to go is throw away gear) use it to get the next best set and then don't use it again.

[Remilia_Nightfall]

Uhm...

I'm calling a troll here, but I'm not sure.

[Crimson-Falcon]

You are right but it works in very specific conditions. That is with a group that know what they do, no first timer, FC members, etc.. etc... those specific conditions are not available to everybody. For instance, my group always takes 1h -1h30 to do through T1-T2. Just because of little hickups here and there. I'm far from SR coil. so those 450 / 90 minutes are a long shot for me and maybe a lot of ppl.

you dont need to know any shit is going on with T2 enrage btw

[Remilia_Nightfall]

you dont need to know any shit is going on with T2 enrage btw

You are not forced to do the enrage strat, you know?

Our FC, for one, continues to do it the "proper" way even if it's more complicated.

[Crimson-Falcon]

You are not forced to do the enrage strat, you know?

Our FC, for one, continues to do it the "proper" way even if it's more complicated.

im not talking about the guys who do it proper way

im talking about guys in PF who do it enrage way

[Remilia_Nightfall]

im not talking about the guys who do it proper way

im talking about guys in PF who do it enrage way

Same thing, even if as a matter of fact the proper way is faster than the enrage way.

Still, even when Coil will be in PF there's nothing forcing you to do enrage strat if you don't want to do it. Just quit your party and find another.

Even if the enrage strat was faster tho, I still see no reason to necessarily do things the FASTEST WAY POSSIBLE AT ALL COSTS. I only see reason to do things the FUN way.

The current content may be short for people who race through it in order to compete against strangers from the Internet, but I hardly believe SE or any other company should tailor the game around these kind of players. First, they're the minority. Secondly, catering to their interests encourages a playstyle that considers the "destination" more important than the "journey".

And tbh, no matter how fast the developers work, there is ALWAYS going to be a fraction of the playerbase who eats through content faster than it is created. It's pretty much a MMO rule.

[Ptolemy]

Is this like.... a thing?

Vertical progression gives endgame heavy players something to look forward to while less intense players eventually get some progression. This is a really good move on the developers' part to prevent things like WoW's 40 man Naxxramas being visited by about 3% of all people who played the game. It was a waste of the developers' efforts. You can be content with what you had when you played, or you can accept that your zomg-leet-lewtz slowly fade into mediocrity while the world continues to spin.

This principle also applies to just about everything else in society. Which is good. Because I don't want to pay $50,000 for a 200 MB hard drive like they once cost.

Vertical progression makes it a waste, now...if it was horizontal, the game becomes filled with relevant content and not a game that lives patch to patch while trashing (making old content obsolete) during the process (honestly i find that more of a waste)

[Remilia_Nightfall]

Vertical progression makes it a waste, now...if it was horizontal, the game becomes filled with relevant content and not a game that lives patch to patch while trashing (making old content obsolete) during the process (honestly i find that more of a waste)

Like GW2?

You sure you want that? :P

[Ptolemy]

Like GW2?

You sure you want that? :P

like GW2? it has much much much more temporary content then XIV


I want a game filled with dungeons & storylines that can be done a year later & still be relevant, I want a game to ADD content, not take it away during a EXPANSION or make it irrelevant in a single patch