Why is endgame loot capped?

[Liam_Harper]

It's strange, but after playing WoW I'm glad to have alts again. I think FF14 has a brilliant idea in having all-jobs-in-one, but it's very poorly executed.

The biggest flaw is that FF14 is all jobs-in-one, with many of the downsides of only owning one character. In other games alts farm their gear independently, you have account wide achievements, collection, can easily mail and trade between them which in turn means your inventory is massively increased for each alt. You can easily play other races or appearances, you get extra chances at dailies, rare drops, lots of nice benefits.

Technically you can make alts in FF14, but the system doesn't support it. No bonus exp, far less account wide stuff, no mailing alts or account banks, you're locked to completing the entire MSQ and all its duties, again. You're clearly not meant to have alts. But your all-in-one character doesn't have the benefit alts give. Gearing and Savage lockouts are just another factor of this. It's also absolutely ridiculous 2 free retainers is all you get for your one character. In WoW I keep a ton of junk and fun items and there's no chance I'll ever run out, I have bag slots for days across all characters.

I am casual too btw. so this is no casual shaming but seriously there is no need for a casual player to have gear equivalent to savage raid gear anyways.

I'm a raider and yes. People love big numbers and "completing their character" and getting shiny loot. Casuals need that too. Stop putting Savage on a pedestal, barely anyone runs it just for loot. They run it for the challenge, then they reclear it for logs.

[Raven2014]

It's strange, but after playing WoW I'm glad to have alts again. I think FF14 has a brilliant idea in having all-jobs-in-one, but it's very poorly executed.

When I played WoW, I had a max character on every slot for all the classes. And tbh, after years of playing FF14 I don't think I like the all-jobs-in-one that much. The only bright side to it is the crafting system that allow you to be full independent. But I miss that feeling "I'm a no0b" again whenever you reroll and go through the content of the entire game again. Also, it means whenever you roll an alt, you have a actual interest in playing and understand that class whether in FF14, many of the classes I leveled is really just go through the motion.

If FF14 allows achievement sharing and all unlocker are account bound, I would fill up my entire 8 slots.