To those who loved FF11...

[Maeka]

XIV has kept the cycle of 2 endgame dungeons, 1 24-person raid, 1 new trial, 1 8-man raid for years. And then roulettes toss you into content old content you've run for ages already. The burnout indeed is real.

The Roulettes get more random as time goes on, as more and more dungeons are added. I don't mind them, because there's what again, nearly 50 dungeons the Leveling Roulette can pick from, depending on what level you Q up as?

And besides, you're not really meant to spam the roulettes endlessly. Why do you think Eureka NMs drop Mendacity now? If you want to do roulettes, do a roulette. That's fine. If you want to take a break from roulettes, you're really not missing out on much.

That's better than doing the same boring content. People say Eureka is boring and grindy.... well, obviously they never tried Sky or Sea in FFXI because that was 100x worse. Standing around waiting for an NM to pop and a lot of times, somebody else got the claim and you just wasted 1-2 hours for absolutely nothing. Maybe by the end of the week you'll have a set of pop items that you can pop a big NM and maybe, MAYBE he'll drop the thing you need. But then, he only drops one and there's up to 17 other people wanting the same thing usually.

I remember talking to RDMs who did Dynamis for YEARS, every week, and never got their AF2 hat. Some of them had been doing so from waaaaaay back when, and never got their AF2 hat before Abyssea raised the level cap and made it obsolete.

And said RDMs had been doing the same Dynamis, same area, for years.

Do you seriously think that's healthy for a game? You're seriously going to compare that to a 20 minute thing where you get 1 out of 50+ dungeons randomly?

At least in FFXIV, if there's a piece of armor I'd really like to get... and I can't get it no matter how many times I try... in a couple months, it'll be obsolete and I'll get something better instead. I'm guaranteed progress with my character over time, one way or another. In FFXI when Lv75 was the level cap, this wasn't the case. BiS remained BiS for years and if you had terrible luck, you just weren't going to progress period and such progression was so tiny that it never seemed worth it anyways.