This patch dropped the ball hard

[Fendred]

Just to clarify something, the objective of the patch content is different than its effect. Yes, it is an effect of the patch content that you will only be able to get 450 esoteric a week, but the rate of acquiring esoteric tomes is low. In effect, they are trying to force people to play dungeons a certain number of times a week to keep the game alive. Savage Coil is just a carrot on a stick. So in place of trying to make the end game have replay value, they are still happy with using the same thing that wasn't working for them in the long haul.

[Aethaeryn]

Just to clarify something, the objective of the patch content is different than its effect. Yes, it is an effect of the patch content that you will only be able to get 450 esoteric a week, but the rate at which you get esoteric tomes is low. In effect, they are trying to force people to play dungeons a certain number of times a week to keep the game alive. Savage Coil is just a carrot on a stick.

As it was with poetics before (and I don't mean when they raised the cap to 900), you can cap esoterics just doing expert once per day for 6 days and not doing anything else all week. I don't think that's really slow. You could also just run expert and one extra dungeon and be done in four days.

I just don't like the 450 lockout. I don't even know which job I want to main yet, and only being able to gear up one job for months yet again has really taken the wind from my sails.