So with the lack of content post story whats everyone doing to stay busy?

[bswpayton]

true nobody cares about your playstyle.. but the only person who matters should be you.

You aren't .. creating content though. It's there, but you are limiting yourself by narrowing your definition of content to "progression" style play.

I do play several hours a day yess , but I also dont expect the game to fill every need I have and I dont think others do either. I have leveled jobs , currently after warrior ill only have, two healers , and three dps left. So Ive def been doing the same as everyone else , and tbh I could have all to 70 but again Im pacing myself. I will even farm verity gear when I have ninja and dragoon leveled just for pacing, but again leveling jobs is not content I dont understand how people can call this content. Content is 24 man, eruka, something different outside of the raids the raids with a lock and tomes.

Like bourne endeavor said they replicated hw exactly, if they keep going this route every new expansion will be exactly the same how long do you think that will carry people along when many are complaining now. I love this game but I have created things for me to do , the game hasnt provided much to do outside of leveling jobs/ raids/ and the two primals. Im not burnt out by any means , but If you read the forums its clear to see that many people are so and if you listen to podcat etc on this game you will hear many players expressing their issues with the same safe formula. All people are wanting is a bit more creativity , and wanting something extra outside of the couple of fights we have currently. And also I may add anyone who owns a house literally can not take a break from the game not that I would but you cant even take a month and twenty day break or you lose your house.

[Tigore]

I am doing 5 dungeon roulettes to level all of my job classes and slowly get the 310 verity gear. The Ixal and Moogle crafting beast dailies are done in between to pass time while waiting for DPS queues. If that is not enough to pass time, then I also pick up the 1, 2, and 3 star Hunt Marks from either Kugane or Rhalgyr's Reach. Getting paid 1000 - 2000gil per target more than makes up for the teleport costs even though I did register both places as favorites to cut the 999 cost to 499.

In addition to FF14, I also have World of Warcraft to play as well. Slowly doing the old emissary dailies there to upgrade my legendaries to 970 ilvl and slowly getting all 2 - 4 weapon artifacts to rank 52 Concordance. It's a bit funny that another Warcraft friend is constantly solicited from his co-workers to play FF14 and he is also given an earful how he should pick Ninja, Red Mage, or Samurai for guaranteed DPS spots.

[Starkbeaumont]

capping tomes first half of the week, then leveling more combat classes.

[Avatre]

I am doing 5 dungeon roulettes to level all of my job classes and slowly get the 310 verity gear. The Ixal and Moogle crafting beast dailies are done in between to pass time while waiting for DPS queues. If that is not enough to pass time, then I also pick up the 1, 2, and 3 star Hunt Marks from either Kugane or Rhalgyr's Reach. Getting paid 1000 - 2000gil per target more than makes up for the teleport costs even though I did register both places as favorites to cut the 999 cost to 499.

While not quite as good EXP wise, you could also do the HW hunts. Use the excess Centurio Seals for either speed boost in HW areas, or grade VI materia to sell. And if you do it in the right map order, you can save a TON on teleport(I saved Kugane as my free teleport, then use my apartment/FC house/Gold Saucer for cheaper teleports). I usually only use 2-5 teleports total for the hunts(HW I use 4 - Teleport to Western then fly through to Forelands->Hinterlands, teleport to Azys->Churning->Sea; SB 2 teleports - Rhalgr's/Kugane then do a circuit so I am not backtracking too much)

[Krotoan]

Content is 24 man, eruka, something different outside of the raids the raids with a lock and tomes.

Again, that's your definition of content. Something to do for progression. And as I said, if that's the only thing you count? yeah.. not much else. I cannot argue that. I'll not repeat myself on what I consider "content" I'll just commiserate on the housing thing, there is that.. If you're one of the lucky ones to have a house you really can't take more than a month off if you want to keep that house. that is a shortcoming . Here's to hoping SE takes a good long look at the housing situation and revamps it hard.

[Conquistadork]

Playing other games? I mean, I could do some runs to finish getting my SAM ilvl 310 gear, but I'm bored of the same formula every patch, so I won't really bother much on it, but if I do log in, is to do the daily Moogle quest and just run roulettes.

[bswpayton]

Playing other games? I mean, I could do some runs to finish getting my SAM ilvl 310 gear, but I'm bored of the same formula every patch, so I won't really bother much on it, but if I do log in, is to do the daily Moogle quest and just run roulettes.

while im not doing the same I woudl hope se would be a little bothered by people moving on so fast after a new expansion dropped and sayin how tired they are of the same ole same

[Bourne_Endeavor]

I gotta ask: WHY NOT!?!?!? new skills, new stories, new .. widget... thingies.. OK so that last one didn't work out too well for everyone but they're working on it! How is a rework of how All the jobs work and adding new mechanics to all of them NOT new content?

Because it's a wash, really. Those same new skills and stories were added in Heavensward. Regardless, I wanted to compare content we're meant to repeat more than something we'll do once-- more only with alts. When it comes to the day to day play, Stormblood has a very "same-y" feel to it at times. I do want to reiterate that doesn't mean bad. I just appreciate people getting tired of the same formulas. For me, Stormblood will be defined by 4.1 and 4.2. If Eureka flops or the glamour history is just a past glamours menu sort of thing, I'll have far less faith in future improvements. On the other hand, if they offer exactly what many people want, I'll be optimistic.

while im not doing the same I woudl hope se would be a little bothered by people moving on so fast after a new expansion dropped and sayin how tired they are of the same ole same

Unfortunately, the game industry as a whole isn't known for it proactive stance. SE will wait until a large enough dip in subs scares them, just like EA, Activision, Ubisoft and all the rest.

[Remedi]

What content do we have more than in HW? We have the same kind of dungeons, trials and raids, we have the same kind of crafting and gathering content and on top of that we have one job less to level. So kinda curious what new content we got in SB? Also saying that dungeons are useless thus not true content because they have no gear but at the same time counting a added Aquapolis as new content is a bit strange. Really next to having a different background in Aquapolis what truly different content did we get in SB that HW did not have? (And like I wrote, lets not forget that we also have one job less too)

On topic: Well I barely play the game right now, since I have no interest in gearing my fighting job for nothing. I have no need for savage content and for the other instances the gear I have is more than enough. (And I dont feel like running these dungeons again and again) When I am on I mostly craft and gather but only because I can finally watch all my youtube videos that I still have open. I really hope that we get some interesting content in the next big patch, otherwise this will be going way to boring way too soon.

Mainly I am playing lots of other games.

You may not agree but we do have 3 dungeons in the roulette, which Might not be much for you but it's a nice change and you can actually SB gear for materias withotu it beign an hassle, not to mention that running ala mhigo is not as boring as ARF was.
Also lakshmi was not invalidated by Susano like bismarck was.
In short yes we have more, more of the same maybe but it still more, also it is better
Feel free to disagree but this is how things are
Also we might have 1 less job but most of the existing jobs were remade so I can't really say that we got less

also pls take note that 3.3 introduced aquapolis not 3.0 so yes we got that as a more

[Conquistadork]

while im not doing the same I woudl hope se would be a little bothered by people moving on so fast after a new expansion dropped and sayin how tired they are of the same ole same

Well, I don't know about others, but for me, it actually took me awhile to finish SB compared to the general player base, since I went the long way and actually finished all the side quest on each map before moving on. Even with that, it doesn't take too long to finish SB, tbh.

SE is taking the safe route, since why change something if it's not broken? A lot of ppl seem to be fine with how they present the same endgame formula every patch, so I don't think they are too concerned. Even Yoshi-P said himself that the game isn't supposed to be played for prolonged periods of time, and while I like talking to my FC and playing with my SAM, I also have other games and rl obligations that I want to do too, so it's perfect for me that they take the time to bring new content. So I'm not in a rush for them to keep pumping content to the game as fast as they can.