Gath wonders....

[Madruk]

They aren't going to put alot of effort into a version of FFXIV that for all intents and purposes, is dead in the water. Wait till 2.0 (tm) or an expansion.

Most of those fights in FFXI had the same tedious drop rate, if not worse. Big difference was that you actually wanted the loot so you kept going. Here in FFXIV most loot drops you could care less about.

Just like everything else the more you do the fight the more efficient/easier it becomes. Challenge is pretty much only there for the learning curve, after that it's farmville. The only real test is how bad/good your learning curve is until it gets to that point.

This game needs some form of tiered progression vs. just doing 1 boss fight for questionable upgrades. Till then it's a snoozefest.