I dunno what is considered "midcore" content but this game seriously lacks "social" content in my opinion. I been on my server forever and I literally just don't know anyone beyond the friends i play with from ffxi and its not cause I don't talk. There's just not enough social/serverside content. I guess the Duty finder kinda enabled this player mentality of who cares about all these ppl, i can just random into anything I want anyway. I always admit I'm an old ffxi player upfront, I am. This is probably shellshock from playing that game and coming to this one where literally there is just no reason to actually interact with anyone beyond: "hey do you need this, cause I do to!". Yes that ocurred in ffxi but there was a million other reasons and people actually offered to do stuff with other people at no gain whatsoever, sometimes you just ran into people you have met before while doing stuff. There's no randomness in this game, no chance encounters, even if you meet someone who might be cool to chat with in DF... High probability they aren't even on your server.

This game has alot of core problems that are currently ruining it for me. I'll list them all here but in reality, there's no way the games core is going to change this far down the road unless for some reason a super majority of the playerbase decided to quit which is lol worthy at best.

1. The ilvl system. I cannot stress enough how strongly I detest this bullshit of a gear system and whoever created it. The difference between a ilvl 200 and a Ilvl240 player is like the difference between a car and a sportcar in terms of power. You can't do drastic changes like this in a game for just gear cause that makes everything before it... Wait for it... USELESS. All the content designed for anything before it will also become... POINTLESS. One of the things I liked about ffxi was gear relevance, it remained useful for a very long time. Years after sky release, the sky gear was still useful, even augmentable with synergy making it useful for even longer and revived sky again for enthusiasts. I quit ffxi shortly before they started the ilvl bs but it didn't effect the player as much as stats in this game do which leads to...

2. Stats in this game literally determine what you are capable of, more so than your player level. Think back to your first gearset at level 60, now look at your current gearset. There's no way in hell you could have even attempted current content with your past gears. This is why they use ilvl requirements, thanks to the lovely ilvl system. In ffxi, players could bring down higher level monsters with meager gear sets if they were skilled enough. Gear didn't determine what you are capable of, instead it augmented your abilities or overall potential, even more so in larger groups.

3. The amount of content at any given time that is relevant or useful to do is low, even yoshi knows this to be true. He encourages breaks currently.

4. Gearing up 2 or more main classes is impossible for some people and very time consuming for others unless you can participate in all content regularly, this means completing savage regularly as well. Another way to die of boredom is to do 2 or more characters grinding tomestones every week if that's your cup of tea. I'd rather watch grass grow personally.

5. Why is there still no fenrir bike in the game, just put it in already. They can have flying jet turtles but I can't have a bike just cause you think its slow and some think its ugly and kills immersion/lore? Ok so I can't have that motorcycle, there's alot of other FF themed motorcycles to pick from and we all know magitek could easily fit a bike.

Not responding to any quotes after this, just felt like venting in a thread with an OP I can relate to I guess.