Alienation of Dedicated and Skilled players

[Lorielle]

No one in favor of horizontal progression has answered this yet. What to do when all you get every patch are just sidegrades instead of upgrades and you are already happy with what you have? A change that supposedly makes pve interesting actually gives us less reason to do content and leaves us nothing but vanity to chase.

There isn't any answer for that because not every piece of gear would be upgradable. Your gear would be situational at best if your example. But this doesn't have to be full blown vertical to horizontal progression as many people are trying to perceive it as. People see things differently. I personally want some variety in a DPS rotation. Some situation pieces could do that depending for example. Or say Nidhogg weapons have attributes to do bonus damage against Nidhogg(makes running him multiple times easier). It doesn't need to be huge or anything. There's plenty of ideas littered here. You just have to consider them and how it would work instead of outright disagreeing with it. Even then, it's not even solely based on horizontal progression or item customization. There's more issues with XIV than just that. This one just quickly becomes the hot topic each time.

I deny your suggestions because I just don't like them and you assume everyone needs to agree with you. Don't put your lot in with someone who is better at getting their point across than you without the "holier than thou" attitude your posts ooze.

Calm yourself. Your assumption of me assuming that is any better how? Which is far from the truth, but again...Perception. Clarification goes a long way. Tone down the hypocrisy a little bit. I have no qualms with people disagreeing and backing their statement with reasoning. But to say, "No it won't work because I don't like it" is a poor refute in any stance. You claim to be open minded but are quick to deny suggestions.

Now you can keep attacking me if you want or you can actually speak on a civil plain if you desire. I'll gladly combat you either way until someone wants to chime in.