As a new player that really likes this game ...

[RichardButte]

The real end game, glamour, crafting and gathering.

Crafting and gathering basically ARE my endgame, but glamour could actually be 100X the endgame it is now if we had a glamour log.

I'm not even kidding when I say that I spent more time in Legion hunting for transmog than I did playing new content. Filling out a glamour log is ADDICTIVE...

Whatever. Next thing you will try to convince me is that this is not an mmo but a single player intended experience ... cuz "muh story".

Nah, then people would just complain that we're trying to turn XIV into SWTOR (which is basically a single player MMO).

Everyone wants to progress their character's power to some degree and gear is the primary method of doing so, particularly once the level cap is reached. It's really as simple as that.

I don't care about progressing my character's power one bit because I don't have a static (and am on the fence about trying to get one). I'm not about to throw millions of gil at gear that won't ever see real use.

It'd be like spending thousands of dollars on tools when you have nothing to repair...except that they're also going come out with much better tools later that make your current tools basically worthless.

I mean, to each their own, and I'm not about to tell you NOT to do that (because those crafters need money), but I personally would've unsubbed by now if not for the fact that I bought a house. There's really nothing else to do but wait for more MSQ for me (and make money, but now that I have the house, not even sure why I'm making it...).

If you like WoW so much, why are you not still playing it?

Several people in my social LS are playing both at the same time.

Contrary to popular belief, they don't force you to unsub from one when you sub to the other.