FFXIV: The State Of Raiding

[Kimimoto]

We already know these devs are short on resources

With them being so short on resources they should really turn Void Ark into a real raid. It's just being wasted as a catch up raid. It's going to drop i230 I imagine, so the only people who are going to take the gear are alt classes or people who can't be bothered to get capped. I doubt either alts/lazy persons are really into raiding. Therefore make Void Ark into a real raid that drops i235 gear that would be relevant to raiding Savage. Then you would have an actually difficulty curve in the game, not just Expert Roulette --> Sepphy Ex/Savage.

Also making gear matter again, that's a huge incentive for a lot of Raiders. Do these catch up patches even matter? Are they really catching people up for Savage? If that's not true they're catching people who can't do/won't do Savage for nothing. Sepphy EX weapons became obsolete in a month and a half because they're not atleast i230 with good secondaries. With a free i230 tome weapon Sepphy EX instantly becomes irrelevant content instead of a stepping stone to Savage. Stop wasting content please.

Squeenix it's alright if some people can't complete PvE content, it gives them something to work at instead of getting capped each week and logging off. Maybe we shouldn't set the standard to if Yoshi can do expert on his BLM, and set it to something that will challenge players a bit.