Coils of Bahamut... and its inconsistent challenge level.

[Vidu]

"Give us meaningful gear again!"

Yes. This. So much this, please.
It hasnt got a lot do with the topic at hand, being should Coil be nerfed further into the ground or not - but it has to do a lot with a problem this game is facing, at least for me, which is: Outside of savage your gear-numbers matter little. Back in ARR your gear did matter - I remember carefully picking the next item to buy with my tomes throughout the whole circle, carefully contemplating wether or not to buy this headpiece right now or wait til next week to get the chest (I eventually bought the AF2-paladin-chest and was hoping for a dungeon-drop as headpiece so we could go into coil. Each time this specific circlet drops now, I'll roll on it and get a bit wistful when turning it in for seals).
Today? Couldnt care less. I have done 3 expert-roulettes for the recent expert-dungeons. Three. I havent capped tomes in months now, because there is absolutly no reason for me to do so (fair enough, as I mentioned earlier already my main-classes are around 265...) - but even before that I wasnt getting excited at all to get that new gear! I would hold on to tomes and not upgrade items because it matters so, so little outside of savage (or even for savage aswell!) that it didnt seem worth the hassle to replace my chestpiece since that meant I would have to glamour it again!

Right now gear is giving a very false impression of progression because theres just no content where it really matters wether you're wearing an ilvl250 piece, 260 or 270 - so why am I bothering to replace something?

[Istaru]

Yes. I have done 3 expert-roulettes for the recent expert-dungeons. Three. I havent capped tomes in months now, because there is absolutly no reason for me to do so (fair enough, as I mentioned earlier already my main-classes are around 265...)

Well, la-di-da. Good for you, you pretentious smug person you.

You've done everything and can look down upon the rest of us from your little throne.

You want harder content, that's nice for you. It's nice that you are a no life nobody who spends their entire life playing a video game. This game isn't meant for your kind, and your unwelcome here.

I have 2 wives, 16 kids, 4 jobs, 43 dogs and cats and a PARAKEET! Yes, a parakeet. I can only play 1-2 hours a week and thankfully this game makes it so that no-life losers like you cannot be any better than me since we have the same level.

I don't want your type of game, what you want is a job. I already have 4 of them, I don't need another one! Go away with your poor attitude.

What about people who take off for months and years? They should be able to catch up quickly and easily! Same for people who can't play much too.

It is attitudes like your thar keep the game down. I have 75 friends who want to play the game but they are afraid of your kind and your demands that they perform at your level. And now you demand that gear become something special to laud over them too?

Go away troll.

/sarcasm

Being serious, I feel so the same way, I don't care about gear anymore. There is no point to it right now. I want to feel a need for progression through gear, but it's missing right now.