"Most people don't have Animus yet"...

[Miburo]

If I was in charge of it I'd definitely just throw away the entire current system and redo it with the idea of making it enjoyable and well-implemented. Not going into it's conception with the idea of making it as stupidly brutal as possible because I can't produce quality content at a reasonable pace, while also using almost no developing resources at all by adding almost nothing new to the game. I'd probably add some cool boss arena fights like hydra, some group and a few solo battles based on the job. Because you never see anyone say "Oh man, I hate fighting BA monsters." Ever. Add in some cool cutscenes in between and boom, it's already way better than the current crappy thing they've got going. Might be more work, and I doubt it'd take people 6 months to do or whatever. But I bet people would at least enjoy it and look forward to the new upgrades instead of hating it and dreading whatever horrible crap they're going to be made to do next.

[Obysuca]

stuff

As I mentioned on another topic. It's good that they're going in the right direction for making people work for stuff, they just did it horribly wrong :/ I'd rather have hard challenging fights, that actually feel like an accomplishment, over grinding days/weeks hoping to get a drop off a lvl 8 fate.

Imo, more timesink, less RNG. People will complain that they can't do it solo/in a day, but that's not the point of a mmo. Mmos are meant to have big timesinks and require teamwork (because it's not a single player rpg) and need something to keep people playing for long periods of time.

Tbh, I'd even settle for "Farm up X amount of items" over "Grind a level 5 fate and hope it drops", sure it's still grinding, but then you'd know how much you'd have until you complete it. You know, sort of how long XI's relic quests were (Pre-aby) or even Mythic >.> By X amount of items, I mean something crazy in the 1k+ numbers. As someone said, not everything has to be for casuals. Add in something that'll make people look at it and go "Wow, that's a really nice piece of gear, I should get it" and then other people thinking "Wow, that's a really nice weapon, but I know I'll never get it". There should always be gear in mmos that some players know they'll never obtain. Probably won't happen anytime soon, since the majority of people on mmos now are a bunch of whiney kids who want stuff handed to them, for no work and solo lol