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

[Ilan]

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1. Unwanted stats can be balanced if you mix your gear. You don't have to get full tome gear + weapon to play effective in current content especially if you don't raid. As for your example with the BLM weapon: The so much wanted spell speed can be gained by the suzaku weapon which is completly fine, or you balance it out with your melds. Someone who doesn't raid doesn't have to min max stats at all, even most people who raid wouldn't need that if they are not going for pure parse runs.

2. Not only a part of the raiders are toxic as hell, there is also a good part of the non raiding community that is toxic as hell and this part is even bigger than the part of the raiders. The only reason the toxic raiders get mentioned all the time is because the people of the non raiding community are much more vocal about stuff like that.

3. SE does make raids easier for the people who didn't go raid before because it was to hard for them, not because they have to create less content because of it. They started with less content even before they started to make raids easier.

4. Eureka is a thing on its own because the design is flawed in many ways. But as long as people go into there nothing will really change.

5. I would prefer if they would go even a step further so that you would've to need a certain amount of points to become a mentor in the first place.

6. I agree that crafters don't need to be able to craft the best gear, they already craft the progression gear and sometimes at least 1 BiS part. For me crafters and gatherers are overall to boring, you have long rotations and it takes quite a while for some things to craft, but i don't complain because there are enough people who enjoy it.