Quote Originally Posted by Cordie View Post
Amelia, please check out our last exchanges with Spayd, I think they'll help you see what I mean about the upgrading path.
I've read the last pages before posting that.

All I can see is you, looking on your neighbours plate and deciding that you are treated unfair, because that other person got more than you. But you do ignore the fact, that this person was willing to put a different type of effort in the game and therefore got another kind of reward. Yes, it is a better one and from my very personal point of view, I think it is fair that raiders get better gear in the first place, because it takes a lot of skill and a lot of time and patience to beat Alexander. (To be fair, A9s and A10s are quite easy once you got how the mechanics work, but A11s and A12s is rougher and both need a lot more time of practicing for a casual/midcore static).


But! And that is a matter of fact! You will get your chance to reach ilvl270 as well. Yes, you have to wait for it and I can see that this might be frustrating ever since it is slowing your personal progress, but please keep in mind that FFXIV is meant to be a casual friendly game. (With casuals I mean people who log in maybe 2 or 3 evenings a week and playing for maybe 1 or 2 hours.) I believe the majority of people is playing this way and from their point of view it might be nice to not log in for 2 days and then coming back, realising they are not completely left behind even though they are casuals.

You as a, as you call yourself, hardcore-grinder have loads of things to do and grind in the game and instead of bothering about raiders having 10 ilvls more than you (which is really not too bad and even most raiders would rather go with 10ilvl less than screwing up all of their 2nd stats!). Just lean back, enjoy leveling other classes, gatherers, crafters. Work yourself into gardening or housing! Maybe be a help to others, especially the newbies. You do seem to know a lot about that grinding stuff and how to equip yourself properly without savage content, so you could lead newbies the way and help them find something they like.

This game has so much more to offer than raw grinding and pushing ilvl, why don't you just try out something you haven't done before? Maybe you will be surprised how much fun there is beyond grinding. ^^