SB is great, but are there any plans to shake up the endgame formula?

[Eclipsed]

Agree with the OP a thousand times over... Other games do this too but this is the absolutely worst implementation of the formula possible. It's like some research scientist focused on only the token for gear aspect of other games and boiled it down to it's most simplified and pure version. It is absolutely soul crushing and made me quit the game for 2 years, nearly for good. Really the only reason I came back was because I was incredibly bored and couldn't find anything better to do. But I am almost done with MSQ now and am absolutely dreading getting back on that treadmill again.

It is so incredibly grindy and absolutely destroys the idea of the job system. I understand why it exists now however due to some recent videos that were made featuring interviews with Yoshi-P. When creating ARR he mandated that they study what other MMO's were doing, and so they did. They just forgot to study the things that make those games fun.

[Amaterasu89]

I was just thinking this myself!
So I came over to FFXIV from WoW but it feels like WoW has way more things to do at the end game.
I love this game and I'm really enjoying RDM, but I just feel like there's nothing much to do.

[Kikoten]

I'm waiting for the Forbidden Land of Eureka. What is it?????? :0 It sounds so scandalous!

[TankHunter678]

Raubhan savage was too much to handle bro

Raubahn EX and Pippin Savage was not hard, just mechanically intensive and needed a lot of patience. You had to do the dance just right to avoid all the 90k busters that could send you right back to the start.

[HFTB]

So you rushed through all the content, as quickly as you could, and are currently upset that they have not provided new content months before their regularly scheduled content release?

This is one of the few games, until this most recent WoW expansion, that you can rely on a 3-month update schedule. They have kept to this since the release of ARR and have always been consistent. Also, prior to the release of SB, they laid out that new content would be released in even numbered patches (4.2, 4.4 etc.) while the odd numbered patches would be mostly balance updates.

They told ALL of us that there would be a gap in content right now. They planned that gap. There is a reason for that gap. Your preferred play style of rushing as quickly as possible to clear everything is absolutely not what they are designing content around. I'm sorry to say that your problem is on your end alone. SE doesn't need to change a thing.

[Elim]

Raubahn EX and Pippin Savage was not hard, just mechanically intensive and needed a lot of patience. You had to do the dance just right to avoid all the 90k busters that could send you right back to the start.

pft I one shot pippin

[Thandronen]

I was honestly hoping the Diadem was going to be the shake up to the normal progression of things but alas, it was not what I'd hoped it would/could be.

[Eclipsed]

So you rushed through all the content, as quickly as you could, and are currently upset that they have not provided new content months before their regularly scheduled content release?

This is one of the few games, until this most recent WoW expansion, that you can rely on a 3-month update schedule. They have kept to this since the release of ARR and have always been consistent. Also, prior to the release of SB, they laid out that new content would be released in even numbered patches (4.2, 4.4 etc.) while the odd numbered patches would be mostly balance updates.

They told ALL of us that there would be a gap in content right now. They planned that gap. There is a reason for that gap. Your preferred play style of rushing as quickly as possible to clear everything is absolutely not what they are designing content around. I'm sorry to say that your problem is on your end alone. SE doesn't need to change a thing.

It has nothing to do with rushing or a lack of content. It's making said existing content relevant for some other reason than reaching your weekly cap... For one job only...

[TheJarvisMan]

So you rushed through all the content, as quickly as you could, and are currently upset that they have not provided new content months before their regularly scheduled content release?

Hahaha. My, you are confrontational. You need to reread my post (or read it for the first time). I'm not "upset that they have not provided new content months before their regularly scheduled content release" at all. I'm quite happy with the amount of content released. It is the reused endgame formula of capping tokens that I find boring.

[Clawbriar]

I was honestly hoping the Diadem was going to be the shake up to the normal progression of things but alas, it was not what I'd hoped it would/could be.

That's because Square Enix slept on it, then woke up far too late, and decided to toss Coven weapons into it in the dying embers of Heavensward. Would've worked far better in incremental, supplemental patches up to that.