2.2

[Lord_Zlatan]

This..

People will eventually relax.. this is housing all over again.

What people are failing to understand is that the Mythology tomes required are not for the weapon... you use them as an allowance to do 9 challenges (IIRC) that you must accomplish to get the weapon.

At least the Myth grind is purposeful. Run coil to gear out in i90 for other classes (I certainly don't have i90 for all my battle classes), while simultaneously farming myth. Im assuming (haven't played yet) that instead of the new dungeons dropping 100Philo and 50 myth its 100 myth and 50 soldiery... so when u want to not do old coil, you can gear up with soldiery tomes, while still slowly progressing towards that 13500.

I am actually really happy they did this. it is in no way necessary content, and give players a long term goal. Kudos to SE (imo) for giving content for different play styles.

[Myrhn]

People whine about RNG drop rate so they give you a type of proggressing gear with tokens (tomes) and people whine the same. What really you want?

[Lord_Zlatan]

Since this is the opposite of fun for me, i'm re-thinking my sub. What keeps me from unsubbing right now? My FC that i run and the friends i've made.

I love how they keep trying to force fates down our throats. I feel like a kid who hates peas but my mom make them a lot for dinner and wants me to finish them all before i can have dessert. Say NO to peas....

That said, i don't mind fates or grinding even, but having it be the same thing ro grind over and over and over with no other vaible or equal options/paths just kinda makes my eyes glaze over.

TL/DR:seems boring is all i'm sayin.

...but there is...

[Lord_Zlatan]

People whine about RNG drop rate so they give you a type of proggressing gear with tokens (tomes) and people whine the same. What really you want?

a Necrologos Levequest that gives you a i100 weapon

[Clavaat]

That said, i don't mind fates or grinding even, but having it be the same thing ro grind over and over and over with no other vaible or equal options/paths just kinda makes my eyes glaze over.

Except there's at least 3 different options besides this. Leviathan, BC, Masterworks are all the same iLVL or 5 apart. Difference is, they are more difficult. But you have the choice. If you don't like peas, eat the carrots...

[EdwardVB]

People whine about RNG drop rate so they give you a type of proggressing gear with tokens (tomes) and people whine the same. What really you want?

I never whined about RNG before 2.2.

[Synapse]

Haha you sly fox, editing before I could quote you - But between your original post, and this one, I think you make a great meta-point, in that FFXIV is not going to be exactly like WoW/Rift/etc or like EQ1/FFXI, it is blazing a new path, hopefully a great middle road.

2.2 looks amazing so far - I am excited! : D

haha yup, Yeah i would not mind something in the middle. Challenge + Casual.

[Lord_Zlatan]

I never whined about RNG before 2.2.

maybe not, but a ton of people certainly did. I personally don't care, because hey, I have OPTIONS. never got my Heavy Allagan Armor and (less importantly) I never even saw the Armor of Light drop. The other option was Myth Body. Happens to be the best in that particular slot but there are other examples that illustrate the point.

[Bixby]

It's just the pendulum swing of early design balance. 2.0 had a low cap on myth and not a lot of sources for either tome. 2.1 raised the cap and had tomes (especially philo) falling out our ears. Now we go back in the other direction for a while. I'll bet a shiny nickel 2.25 will have either up some of the tome sources or nerf some of the tome prices to some degree.

Eventually, hopefully, they'll figure out a nice middle ground that minimizes the angst from one side or the other.

[JayCommon]

Lol!!!

Glad I saved a ton of myth for this patch