Will they ever stop with constant Vertical Progression?

[Adventica6]

I'm having a really hard time find a reason to login anymore, and it has to do with itemization. Every single patch, it's new gear, higher item lvl, 5-8 more main stat per piece, no sets, no effects, nothing. Why is this allowed to keep happening? why aren't players allowed to have sets or effects on their gear? why does getting an upgrade have to feel so...bad ?

Player A) upgrades 220 gloves to 240 gloves, player A gains 14 int 7 crit. Do you see where I am going ?

Player A logs off,

I hope my point is clear to my readers, thank you.

[Ashelia_Ferron]

I would give my opinion on this, but this topic has been brought up so many times I don't want to repeat myself, so I suggest doing a forum search and reading the pages of discussion already made about this topic

[Igrainne]

I think you oversight the fact that these 5-8 main stat pieces add up, making you go over a threshold that you couldnt with previous tier of gear.

That is why its so important, and that is why we keep playing.

Also, there is so much to do!

Housing, Chocobo Racing, Triple Triad, Crafting, PvP, Rouletes, Alt Classes, Market Board Gil Plays, FC Events, Community Events.

[Dumbledoremd]

Last patch was weeping city of mhach and it drops i230 so not every patch dose the i lvl increase

[Chadness]

I feel you on the vertical progression thing, but at least getting new gear gives you more glamour options. Let's face it, that's the only reason many of us bother anymore.

(Only partially joking...)

[Doki]

I took a break from the game back in January, just came back a week into 3.3 and I've already re-hit the grind out tomes to cap & log out stage. Oh well. Game is still fun, but hardly worth banging your head against the wall.

[Leigaon]

There's really nothing they can expand on to make gear stay the same item level. You could say "well they could put out gear with Det and other with critical." but that doesn't really switch it up a lot.

The stats are simple, so there's no need. They don't, and probably won't, have anything additional that will give you any additional perks.

[KrenianKandos]

Truth be told, I don't recall how many times I've stated that I am so sick and tired of the gear grind and vertical progression that it has effectively shortened my time playing MMORPGs right now. I'm just done grinding the same stuff over and over to get a number of some sort and upgrade my gear for stats. It's such a boring and repetitive progression grind that I don't want anything to do with it.

So you know what I did, OP?

I decided enough was enough and explored other options in this game. And Crafting is where I got myself going. With the Ixal and Moogles, it makes things easier to level and the fact that you have a lot of things 'to' craft in your book, it's always neat to try to do the right combination. I will admit that after getting a couple of the required skills, HQing items is simple enough, but still, crafting does have it's quirks. Same with the gathering jobs; you go explore the world and find materials and sell them.

Yeah, that's right: I have found making gil and leveling my crafters more fun at this time than grinding the tomes stuff.

It's gotten so bad that I'm barely grinding my anima to the next level and that was what I wanted my endgame to be. I've found that I just don't feel the drive to get it done anymore.

I'm hoping that Palace of the Dead will be a new gameplay that will rejuvenate my want to play the PvE aspect but right now, there's nothing pulling me to log on other than the crafting and Moogle rep up, which I'm getting close to being done (Rank 6 or 7 already), and it's pretty sad if the side game stuff is what is driving me to come on.

So I completely understand you, OP, and hope you find something to get you out of that funk.

[RobbieH]

- http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...killed-players
- http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ization-design.
- http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...e-state-of-XIV

[Stormfur]

I think they've said already that they won't be doing this, because no matter what, there will always be a "best of" build that everyone will flock to, making all that development time pretty much wasted. I, too, wish they'd do *something* but I'm not sure what that something is.