Curious state of raiding and could something from the early days of XI fix it?

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I've never jumped up in excitement at acquiring something in XIV, but I can vividly remember jumping and yelling when I finally won that prized item in XI. This is the trade off.

Keep in mind that part of the reason that getting a new piece of equipment in XI was so exciting was that (for most players) it was so rare that you ever got anything at all.

I had a two year stretch from 2006-2008 when I was doing something every night of the week in XI; Dynamis and Limbus twice a week, with Sky, Sea, Einherjar, Nyzul Isle, Salvage, etc. mixed in through the rest of the time. About the only thing my LS didn't do was anything that required camping HNMs.

There were plenty of times where I'd have a stretch of weeks at a time where I wouldn't even see anything I wanted drop, and my gear was far from completed from any of the jobs I played.