Please help me understand why i should continue to play a repeat of 2.0?

[Rampage]

Sure FFXI story seemed epic, thats because you had to organize 20 people to come in at certain days to clear extremely hard missions 2 times a week for 3 months just so you could get to some endgame events. And if you missed a session or didnt have time during the week to run and do your other quests leading up to the mission fight you could be left behind.

You could get gear in FFXI that actually made a difference (because of all the different stats and effects on gear). I had max -physical and magic damage gear set on DRK to put on once I grabbed hate, which took a long time to piece together but was very rewarding. This also meant I had to spend 30 minutes whenever I changed jobs to grab my - DMG set, my WS set, my magic burst (+mg dmg ) set, etc. Its true when you got that piece of super rare gear you have been working months for, and completes a set or w/e it seemed epic, but lets get real: "ain't nobody got time for that". Most cant stay in College gamer mode forever.

[Luvbunny]

But lets get real: "ain't nobody got time for that". Most cant stay in College gamer mode forever.

LMAO, I love your reply, literally explaining the exact BONUS feature of FFXI and why it is so "EPIC" in many ways. They streamline a lot now though, in comparison the current FFXI is closely resemble FF14 more and more.

I do wish that you could do a quest where you can augment your gears with maybe beneficial bonus such as 3% more healing, less magic damage taken, less physical damage taken, etc.. Similar on how FFXI does with Delve gears augmentation path. I think that would breathe fresh air into customization of your gears and abilities and give some players their "snowflake" status a well deserved grinding time. Though it won't take long for the community to turn toxic and start DEMANDING everyone has to have certain gears with certain augmentation and play the optimized set or you will be banned from joining events. This is why I understand that SE goes for simplicity on gears, which now rely on how good you are in dodging, optimizing your button rotation, and react accordingly if you are healer or tank to sudden changes in your party dynamic (aka DERP DPS who cannot avoid AOE, again, and again, and once more, again).