We Really Need To Talk About The State And Path Of FFXIV

[Edax]

If that is your interpretation of my posts, you ought to read them again. Nowhere have I said the gear is needed. It isn't. You argued i370 gear should be available in other content like Eureka, to which I argued against because Savage asks significantly more in terms of attention and skill.

On the other hand, if you have no interest in Savage, then yes, the gear is entirely unnecessary since it's overkill for casual content.

No I was referring to different players with contradictory viewpoints telling me I don't understand the bare basics of MMORPGs.

I can't help but think that we just opened the eyes of someone about what PvE combat centric MMORPGs are about.

Tbh I can't believe we are 32 pages in and this person still doesn't understand why raiders get the gear we do.

To you Bourne_Endeavor, you have misinterpreted my posts. I am a casual player but I always seek to improve my character but I'm not a min/maxer. The problem is that despite the limited amount of time I play this game and despite my laidback style, I'm constantly hitting a limit. When I'm leveling through the game for the first time, I have so many different methods of leveling my character and getting better armor, via quests, crafting, duties, Palace of the Dead and hunts. Endgame, the methods of self-improvement shrink so dramatically, it's either tomes or raids. I buy a piece of gear with the tomes and I've effectively maxed out that gear piece (for half a year?) since I do not raid regularly. Because of that, I hardly have cause to actually play my combat class for weeks until I start forgetting where the hotkeys are and what the best rotations are. Eureka was a good way to solve this even if it was accidental, offering a method of improvement that was not the most difficult content or the most grindy but it kept me busy for months improving my character and more importantly playing my classes. But with Pagos designed to be frustrating and not offering gear beyond a relic, I've once again hit that wall where my combat classes aren't doing anything. If the crafting system were more developed, or the tomes more developed with an extra tier, I'd still have something to do.
The core problem: not enough endgame content.

To those that say raiders need the best gear, remember that's not fact, that's opinion. Other games just offer "Achievement Unlocked" when you do hard content. Many games don't bother giving you the best weapons and armor for tackling the hardest content, in fact many games remove the best gear and weapons specifically for that challenge. If you like or want raiders to get the best gear, that fine, but just remember that's an opinion and resorting to personal insults and name-calling like Lorgana has done, such as calling me a liar and a troll, just tells me they're not confident in their own opinions.