Something I noticed this weekend...

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

You know, if a customer leaves, you don't argue with them. You look at your product or service to see ways you can improve on it.

The point I took from this is that content is just too spiky in participation in this game. I call it the two week problem; a tremendous amount of content in this game is best done the first two weeks it launches, because the population degrades after that. I also think the 2 chest thing is a bigger problem than people think; the content in this game that seems to draw the most consistent attendance tends to have zero limits to it, like eureka or POTD.

This isn't a problem with the content, but how rewards are given. If you want content to not have limits, then drops can't be guaranteed. We can have 1 or the other, but not both.

It's either going to be weekly limits, but you are guaranteed to see gear drop upon winning, or now you can do the content as much as you want, but now drops are either heavily grind gated a la Eureka, or heavily RNG based, a la primal mounts.

We can go back to how primals and raids used to be too. Coil doesn't have tokens, and neither did the 2.0 primals. It took my raid group over 2 years to see the casting earrings drop from Turn 9. Months to see healing pants.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

This isn't a problem with the content, but how rewards are given. If you want content to not have limits, then drops can't be guaranteed. We can have 1 or the other, but not both.

It's either going to be weekly limits, but you are guaranteed to see gear drop upon winning, or now you can do the content as much as you want, but now drops are either heavily grind gated a la Eureka, or heavily RNG based, a la primal mounts.

We can go back to how primals and raids used to be too. Coil doesn't have tokens, and neither did the 2.0 primals. It took my raid group over 2 years to see the casting earrings drop from Turn 9. Months to see healing pants.

Actually, all that needs to be done is loosen the restrictions a bit. If groups still received two coffers with upwards of say, two people who have previously cleared in the party, that vastly improves the pool for raiders looking to do more than once a week Savage.

You can literally make every job right now, this minute, full 360 without using any tomes.

All 15, today, if you REALLY wanted to.

And that addition has likely contributed to Ridorana having long queues outside Tuesday/Wednesday. It doesn't help the sub-stats on most of the gear is abysmal, pushing people towards Augmented crafted options.
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Anywho, I can appreciate the OP's frustration. 4.3 offered sparse little to do unless you're a very dedicated raider. Unfortunately, that's been an issue with XIV for a good while now. Nothing has any real longevity. They advertised the Doman Enclave is some big new feature yet it amounts to little more than a turn-in area you dump your trash at to unlock some story each week. Part of this stems from their staggered release nonsense, another from how easy everything has become and lastly how much emphasis they place on content that no lasting value. This game desperately needs content that isn't over within a week or two. And no, that does not mean more weekly time gates, SE.

[Remedi]

. And no, that does not mean more weekly time gates, SE.

couldn't agree more

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

couldn't agree more

Hope you guys like grinds and RNG then!