Quote Originally Posted by ForteNightshade View Post
People aren't complaining about the removal of things like Blood of the Dragon or Enochian.
No, people are complaining a lot about that. As a matter of fact, it's one of the things they complain most about. Boring upkeep gameplay is the first thing a lot of people point to when they talk about jobs being simplified.

The proportional difference between the high and low end has remained very similar since StB, with the major exception being healers and tanks (and even then, healers are the only really egregious example); that's what I mean by skill ceiling. The capacity to push your job's output higher than the average has not changed much. Nerfing the skill ceiling would be something like how they changed BoTD from HW to StB more than anything they did in ShB onwards.

Quote Originally Posted by HyoMinPark View Post
If you are insinuating that FFXIV’s endgame has any sort of longevity to it, then you are sorely mistaken. Any longevity is from artificial caps (e.g., Tomestone caps) or from drop RNG (e.g., EX Mount farming). Patches don’t have enough for people to stretch out the entire 4 months of relevancy unless they just aren’t logging in and playing for extended periods of time.
They can't do that! Everyone knows that giving content longevity automatically equates to the devs making it mandatory to compete (or even get involved) in a high end raiding environment!!!!

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