Quote Originally Posted by Wulfyn View Post
Lately I will see people complain about grinding for tomes, and I think to myself, could be worse. Remember Dynamis? Grinding for relic weapon? Then there was Sea and Sky. Next thing we knew there was Einherjar sp? , Salvage, not to mention the climb some ppl got frustrated with just finding a pt to clear floors.
Different game entirely. Until Abyssea the game was a horizontal progression path so we didn't mind farming Dyna for years. Well, that might be a little bit of rose-tinted nostalgia but the difference is there were multiple viable upgrade paths open to players. Didn't want to farm Dyna, then you could run Nyzul, Salvage, Ein, Sea, Sky, etc.

Currently you have the latest iteration of Coil and that's pretty much it. By choosing a vertical progression for FFXIV the developers are continually invalidating their previous efforts and the players are growing heartily tired of their once a week upgrade lottery. I literally log in every few days, consider doing a roulette or PF and shrug as I know in a month or two my efforts will be invalidated. When I was younger I would have leapt in that hamster wheel but now I'm tired of the same old shit and as it increasingly appears S-E's vision for this game is a pathetically beige copy of WoW I have to question whether I even want to wait and see what kind of a pig's ear they make of ninja in 2.4, whenever that may be.