Quote Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor View Post
No offense, but you either need to play with groups more willing to allow you to swap jobs or don't know how to gear multiple jobs. Between scriptures and raiding, I had the following 260+ within roughly four months:

Dragoon
Ninja
Dark Knight
Warrior
Monk
White Mage (technically 257)
Machinist

That's seven jobs; with only Machinist benefiting a little from the Scripture unlock. If you don't do Savage, then play whatever you want. Gear progression is near irrelevant passed ilvl 250.
I really like to get my suffering out of the way early. Having to stretch out gearing multiple jobs over several months is boring and tedious to me.

Strange analogy incoming. Fair warning! So now, when I eat a meal, I always try and eat the item I don't like first. Get that sucker out of the way, and then I get to enjoy the rest of my meal happily. With gearing, it's sort of the same feeling to me. I'd much rather spend a shorter chunk of time suffering through dungeons and tome grinding so that I can just enjoy my jobs and do the other content I actually enjoy on them once it's all done. I don't want to tome grinding to stretch for as long as it does.

I get that restrictions happen in games, but SE seems heavy-handed with how they have handled tomes and raid lock-outs. Again, I think opening up the lock-out to be per JOB vs everything combined would be a huge boon.

But for me personally, the lockout kills the fun. And I have spent far more time unsubbed in recent months than having an active sub. Currently only subbed to get that glorious easter egg mount :X