Is FF14's tome system and endgame horribly flawed?

[hagare]

Gonna repost this again. The content and reward distribution is unbalanced and unfair. Easy content should never provide the same reward as the best reward that hard content provides while mid tier content provides less. The i200/210 tome reward should have not been rewarded by faceroll dungeons even at i180. The horizontal progression excuse is nonsense because adding more ilvl cap gear isn't going to make it horizontal when secondary stats have been further nerfed in relevance and are still going to be replaced constantly before actual level cap is increased. If the 'tome' gear has to stay, it should be moved to mid tier content.

did you factor in the head start the raid has in your calculations?
did you factor in that the easy content is accessible for everyone in your calculations?
did you factor in gear life cycle in your calculations?
did you factor in that the easy content won't get the same gear in the raid in your calculations?
did you factor in the purpose of a catch up patch in your calculations?
etc etc etc

[Krokov]

The weekly cap is ridiculous I'll say.

[Gunspec]

It is so horribly flawed that it didn't work at all for the past two years. It was such a mess, that the game was cancelled after a few weeks, and Yoshida is currently living in park somewhere in Tokyo, with blue tarps keeping the rain off of him and his carbuncle plushies.

[hagare]

It is so horribly flawed that it didn't work at all for the past two years. It was such a mess, that the game was cancelled after a few weeks, and Yoshida is currently living in park somewhere in Tokyo, with blue tarps keeping the rain off of him and his carbuncle plushies.

and the moogle hoodie that we saw in the latest non-existent live letter.

[Jim_Berry]

Yes it should. And that's why we have caps. You can choose: spend time or do the hardest content. The rewards will be the same, the routes, different.

Agreed!

I, myself, am at a state where my option is to spend the time, since I do not meet certain requirements to Raid:

No TeamSpeak:
- Everyone seems to make this mandatory now. I only have access to PS4 chat, Kik, and Skype (no computer, no laptop, using Windows Phone, which does not support TeamSpeak).

Time:
- My work schedule.

Experience:
- Many groups who are looking for reps are on AS3, while I still have yet to clear AS1.

Funny thing about voip and Alex Savage, is that I learned it without TeamSpeak. But because I bring the bonus, many non-learning groups barely give me a chance.

[Starbirth]

This is called gear distribution. They need to have a system to reward good gears to players that do not raid/don't do hard content.

Yes it should. And that's why we have caps. You can choose: spend time or do the hardest content. The rewards will be the same, the routes, different.

If one takes a route through a grass field; gets rewarded with mountain climbing gear and then decides to climb a mountain then what do you think the outcome will be?

[Azazua_azura]

i think what is flawed is content becomes irrelivent to fast for players to join in if they recenmtly started. Due to some personal issues i restarted this game alot in 2.0, due to how content was set up i missed out on coil (which coming from a 1.0 plauer i REALLY wanted to do it) i all but missed out.

where as in ff11 people was still doing dynamis 5 years after the ps2 NA release in 2004. it only became irrelivent when abysseaa was added but then again 99% of ff11 became irrelivent when abyssea was added this infact pissed off alot of players.

[Azazua_azura]

Gonna repost this again. The content and reward distribution is unbalanced and unfair. Easy content should never provide the same reward as the best reward that hard content provides while mid tier content provides less. The i200/210 tome reward should have not been rewarded by faceroll dungeons even at i180. The horizontal progression excuse is nonsense because adding more ilvl cap gear isn't going to make it horizontal when secondary stats have been further nerfed in relevance and are still going to be replaced constantly before actual level cap is increased. If the 'tome' gear has to stay, it should be moved to mid tier content.

who pissed in her corn flakes?? please keep in mind the the terms "hard" "easy" "face roll" are SUB-JECT-IVE. AND are NOT factual representation of content.

[Azazua_azura]

If one takes a route through a grass field; gets rewarded with mountain climbing gear and then decides to climb a mountain then what do you think the outcome will be?

all that is subjective. What if the grassy field requires more work or energy then the moutain climb?

[Starbirth]

all that is subjective. What if the grassy field requires more work or energy then the moutain climb?

Your saying a grassy field can be more difficult to traverse than a mountain?

Just checking...

Let's assume the field is made of grass and the mountain has no pathways; meaning you need rock climbing gear.