Quote Originally Posted by Mawlzy View Post
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I'm sorry but you're just disregarding groups of people that run content for other reasons here in the same way you were being disparaged earlier for being unable to just get better earlier. Just because you don't agree/there's a better alternative does not explicitly mean that one should go towards the other. Just because 'There's better places to meet people' doesn't invalidate that that's a portion. In fact, I'd say that if you're self professed to not enjoy the PvE aspect of the game then you're no doubt going to go into any duty finder content with a grim mentality anyways so no doubt you're not going to socialize. But that's not been my experience.

But to actually confront your points.

Grinding tomes isn't just a raid mentality. It's not even an extreme thing. People do it because, like you, they like to see the number tied to their character go up. It indicates progression. It's a big MMO thing to see that item level go up. My first FC didn't raid and yet they'd still run their dailies and do their weekly Alliance Raids to get their tokens. It's one of the more common routines to hop on, run dailies, and then hop out.

And further. Tomes aren't even the only aspect of the roulettes and duty finder. People use PvE content to level their jobs. A core identity of this game is that it's the game you don't need an alt for other jobs on. You can, and probably should, have a few different jobs. And one of the best ways to level is through that daily bonus. That's the most casual of casual reasons to engage with it: MSQ only leveled my Paladin but I want to play my Red Mage too. You can level through alternative means but offering choices is better.

Also, what do you mean that anything has been rendered obsolete by Duty Support when one of your core issues is that Duty Support does nothing to address personal difficulties clearing the content. You can run Mt Gulg with the trust but if you manage the halos on the last boss you're going to be floored every time. We've already addressed that you falling on your face time and time again is the problem. So rather than come to the conclusion that the worse players in the community need their own isolated padded room to bumble around safely, let's try to figure out how to include them rather than exclude.