So anyone else tired of grinding tomes weekly for gear?

[wicked-one]

I must admit, you can´t call it "grind"...

I do my weekly schedule of a full roulette, midas, voidark, acutal A5S... and im done in one day, and quite bored the rest of the week cause i skip expert etc.. (cause it feels so wrong grinding tomes i dont get in the end).

[Werhusky]

I stopped playing for like... 5 months at most and when I got back two weeks ago Bismark along with Ravana and Alexander are eye-rolling content already.
I gotta say I enjoyed this game a lot more before Heavensward.

Gotta agree in i220 and then you get echoooo even Thordan is not a bit of challenge anymore
Almost carried a DF through but enrage at 15% cause 20 or so raises and then they vote abandoned.

[Voltyblast]

Sadly I'm getting tired too. I don't have an issue with the gear itself since I do enjoy grabbing new gear from time to time and just get a nice armor on me. But I will say that I dislike the cap, since it's just that small in order to pad the game further.

Yes it's "Required" to keep endgame content relevant (because there were no other ways I suppose?) but here's my issue: how about making the cap 1) higher 2) bound to the job? I seriously never understand the appeal of "multi-classing" that this game offers when in reality you can only properly play ONE at the time.

For example, when we got the 200 gear - which was job locked - I was forced to gear one of my three tanks (my warrior), since DRK gear and PLD gear aren't shareable (unlike now, which I deeply like). Yes you can gear up thanks to VA and other places but again why should I bother when my 1 job is going to be stronger regardless of the effort I put in? I would definitely spend more time doing queues as a AST or a MCH to get my specific tomes so I can get my specific gear (which I prefer in terms of variety, but dislike because it can't be shared), instead of just rush with my tank and farm tomes for another job. For one thing, it would actually force us to play different jobs at level 60...but then the dungeons are a bore and unlike the first ones we had in 2.X, the new ones always felt rushed, are often recycles of old dungeons and, worst of all, are constantly padded with gates and few enemies just to keep you busy 2 minutes longer.

Please, stop putting areas where you can only kill 3 enemies before moving on: either make these 3 enemies interesting and/or unique, or just allow us to AOE everything on our way. It shouldn't be that hard!, but I digress.

I don't have any ideas on how to make this better though: in other games there's usually a cap on something, yes, but you usually have other means to obtain good gear rather than just doing one thing. Whenever I get a lower ilvl gear than 230-240 I always think "it's gonna be pointless as soon as I get the lore-upgraded gear", because there's nothing wanting me to keep that gear. In other games you also have sets stats but in here? Oh there is...on GC gear, which is not even updated to HW levels!

I've stopped bothering with endgame content after wasting my time in FCOB (and I never got to finish t13) but I'm not going to complain about my choice. What I'm going to complain is the lack of possible choices I got in terms of endgame: it's only raiding, dungeons and/or crafting/gathering (aren't they also locked by a weekly cap? Please correct me if I'm wrong). I'm not even going to count relic: I did that stuff back in 2.X and I hoped for something more exciting than "theorically" do 800 runs of Alex.

If anything, I've been spending most of my time in pvp. Took quite a bit to be deliver, but at least I can queue and get into a match within human times.
However if it wasn't for my beloved house (which is another issue that requires fixing too), I would've gone way before HW even came about.

[Melondra]

One of the nice thing about final fantasy XI online is it seemed like a real adventure. Getting from Point A-B actually felt like a journey especially with death lurking around every corner. In this game it pretty much jumping from aether crystal to aether crystal. The community today would never survive that game because it actually took a strong sense of community and friendship. If you made enemys in Final Fantasy XI you might as well cancel your subscription. The game required having a strong and social community and you needed the ability to help others without any personal gain for your-self. But you made really good friendships in that game and the community there was outstanding.

[Genaxx]

Once you complete the content for the latest patch its just urgh. You do the two new dungeons, fun the first few times, clear the new primal and ex version, get your new weapon. Do the new raids, again fun the first few times, finish the story and thats it. Then your back to the chore of capping every week until new content comes.

It just gets so mundane.

Love the game and wish it had more to offer but nothing ever seems to change so I might as well face that this is all it will ever be. My sub runs out in a month or two so I think that will be it for me.

[Maero]

Umm there is also crafted gear which in some cases is actually better then midas and lore gear.
Capping does not really take much effort.

[Genaxx]

Umm there is also crafted gear which in some cases is actually better then midas and lore gear.
Capping does not really take much effort.

But theres no point in spending so much on gear that will be outdated by the next patch.

I think adding elemental and bonus stats to different gear could really mix the game up.

[Maero]

Stats>ilv, not the other way around
Besides if you have someone that can craft for you it's not all too bad.

[Critical-Limit]

I swear if the next expansion is just new zones level to 70, 3 new jobs, little bit of story, 2 EX primals and a 4 tier raid. With a couple expert dungeons I'm out.

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[Andrea]

Stats>ilv, not the other way around
Besides if you have someone that can craft for you it's not all too bad.

What they mean is the next set of tomestone gear will be better than any crafted items out atm.

Which again begs the question, if you aren't pushing for world first why even bother with it? The gearing up in the game is simply a chore, there is nothing fun about it, I run a dungeon a day at the end of the week I buy an item...Its been this way since the game came out thats what people have a problem with.