Who here is also burned out from farming?

[Lemuel81]

I'm all with you, I cannot catch up for now being down to a casual state (wasn't this game supposed to be for Casuals? sigh.. )

I'm hoping to be iLvl 130 yay!!!! <-- not >.<

This game is very casual. I think the problem lies more on the lines that people feel they must do everything within a certain time frame, i.e cap this, cap that so forth and so forth. This game pretty much hands you loot on a silver platter, and just about everything else.

Speaking generally, if people are feeling burnt out- thats a red flag that people are spending too much time on the game. There are alot of things to do in game, people get stuck in the whole mentality "I must do this in said time" or Ill be behind. Ppl rush the game and they get burnt out, and somehow its SE fault o.O

Nonetheless alot of the comments in this thread I agree with

[KingOfAbyss]

This game is very casual. [snip] Nonetheless alot of the comments in this thread I agree with

Trust me, I'm playing since launch of 2.0, I was playing 30 hours per week. now when I have one hour per day, like 3 days per week, it's a miracle.

that said, when you need 90 mins on a dungeon, you have to make sure you have the best buddies with you, otherwise if the other 3 fail to complete and want to vote abandon, I just don't have enough time to try it again on the same day.

Lucky for me, I catched on pretty quickly that you must be a Tank in order to get into stuff very quickly.

Still, I Miss my Summoner.. and my raid group, which is a no-no if you cannot catch up gear-wise and understanding the mechanics to clear one trial.

If you have only 1 hour per day, and the Raid ask you for 1 hour, you can't do much more in other areas of this wonderful game.

So.. Casual.. to an extent.

[DreameR7g]

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Well, the game is designed for a casual player to easily get into and easily get out of, considering time blocks where they only have, like yourself, 1 hour a day. XIV out of the entire MMO library has been one of the most casual friendly games ever implemented.

However, if you *only* have 1 hour a day, you can only accomplish so much in a genre of video games designed to be time sinks. That isn't a fault of the game's design.

[Tuathaa]

Well, the game is designed for a casual player to easily get into and easily get out of, considering time blocks where they only have, like yourself, 1 hour a day. XIV out of the entire MMO library has been one of the most casual friendly games ever

To log in and run around, do fates or gather mats yes it is but to actually accomplish anything in relation to raids or dungeons then no it isn't without dedicating and/or scheduling time for it.

[DreameR7g]

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30 - 40 minutes for a dungeon beats the hell out of having to schedule a block of 3 hours to have to do anything. (FFXI Leveling parties in a nut shell).

This game IS more casual but you can't escape from the MMO game design. If it wasn't grindy or time consuming, it wouldn't be an MMO.