The one consistent critic on Heavensward is "too much like ARR"? srsly?

[Xeonerable]

I've been playing this game since its released on 1.0... so I clearly have liked it, or maybe I'm a masochist. But here is how I feel so far:

In terms of the design of end-game content, between 2.0 and 3.0 they are nearly identical.
2.0 = Weekly tomes for gear, weekly coil, primals, and masterbooks for crafting (i forget what gathering was)
3.0 = Weekly tomes for gear, weekly coil.v2(alexander), primals, and red scrips.

I guess there was crystal tower, but I've already mentally repressed that suffering. And have fun waiting forever for PVP?

Call me crazy but for $40 I expected them to take a slightly different design approach for end-game. Granted the level design and story was phenomenal, but that is only half of what this game is. The rest of the content is just copy/paste in a sense. It feels like we're on a single ladder, we climbed up the next rung which felt exactly like the last.

To me it feels like they went by "How can we make the 2.0 end-game suck less for 3.0?" instead of "what new things can we add to the game to make it better?" I was just hoping a variety of fresh and different things to do, and not just more of the same. It was like an unpleasant feeling of deja vu as it seems uninspired and redundant. I have no motivation for it because of that.

Its sort of like hearing a joke, the more you keep hearing it the less funny it becomes.

(I still don't get the character limit for posts.. lol)

[Gilraen]

(I still don't get the character limit for posts.. lol)

Blame the English forums during the Beta for that. Real sea of filth that was. As for the 'I didn't pay good money for two dungeons' you're right. You paid good money for five large zones, several dungeons of levels between 51 and 60 as well as future content updates that will expand on that. Not to mention all that new dungeon gear (the quest rewards are just old dungeon gear made craftable) from all those dungeons. You can't limit your appraisal to just the two level 60 dungeons and the first part of the first raid, there's a ton of stuff that you had to go through to get there. As for the argument that it's just more of the same as 2.#... well that's no surprise, it's a continuation of 2.#. This isn't even close to the same as the transition to 2.0 from 1.0, that was a complete rebuild of XIV.