How to give people something to do

[MayuAmakura]

Is getting top gear doing anything for casual players and those that never do raids? It helps with treasure maps being faster (brax already capped at 765 though) and dungeons slightly faster? Other than that, no idea what's the point of end gear. For everybody else, it's just clearing ultimate I guess and maybe criterion.

Really getting gear in this game is just meh.

[MayuAmakura]

That's the beauty of it, if you don't care and don't consider it worth it, you don't have to! Us that will do it, however, get something really neat out of it. More rewards is always good! For deep dungeons, they can give you some crafting tomestone materials (maybe like 5 of each?) after you clear floor 99, for those that don't want to do extreme and higher, and maybe for completing all your daily roulettes, you will get an extra spiritbonding buff that lasts for 2 hours!

I was going to agree with you until I saw "spiritbonding" buff mentioned. That has to be a joke.

[PercibelTheren]

Is getting top gear doing anything for casual players and those that never do raids? It helps with treasure maps being faster (brax already capped at 765 though) and dungeons slightly faster? Other than that, no idea what's the point of end gear. For everybody else, it's just clearing ultimate I guess and maybe criterion.

Really getting gear in this game is just meh.

While I agree with you, the gear treadmill is *the* endgame progression in this MMO and many others.

[Gwenkatsu]

Square Enix should make doing content ACTUALLY rewarding. For example:

The reward should match the challenge. E.g. when you do the most unreals in a week, the reward should also be unreal. The winning player could be allowed to select a mod that's applied to the complete data center for a week. If you ever wanted to make everyone in game look like a bunny girl in lingerie with two giant you-know-what - that's the way to go!

I think this would drastically increase the number of players doing said content, even during content droughts.

[NegativeS]

this definitely reads like someone who has either only started playing FFXIV in 2025, or is desperate for attention by trolling

good thing i dont know any better

Clearing the last boss of savage should allow people to go to 8/9 on the wondrous tails book and still be able to shuffle, allowing them to roll for a gold certificate easier.

and you'd still have only a 1 in 8 chance of getting the third line lmaooo itd be a more effective troll to ask for gold certificates as boss drops

Extreme mounts that are not available for totems should move 100% faster than every other mount, until they become available on the vendor.

actually they should move 50% slower so casual peasants can get more of an opportunity to gawk at their accomplishment when they fly by

Lastly, people who clear a current expansion ultimate receive a priority ticket for bidding on a house. Allow them to take up 3-8 slots every time they bid, or something like that. Maybe even make a ward that only ultimate clearers can bid in. A ward dedicated entirely to gamers! How cool would it be to just hang out with your ultimate bros?

talk about a sausage fest, am i right

Finally housing wards would have a real community, instead of never even seeing your neighbors, because your neighbors actually play the game. Maybe even make it unique from other cities, and create a hangout spot in the very middle where we can show off our ultimate weapons.

implying raiders have any desire to be social, or even play the game outside of raiding (they don't, otherwise the game's dev wouldn't be so top heavy)

[PyurBlue]

When the primary reason to do content is what you get and not the content itself, I'm concerned. That doesn't sound like a good game.

[Miradelle]

The winning player could be allowed to select a mod that's applied to the complete data center for a week. If you ever wanted to make everyone in game look like a bunny girl in lingerie with two giant you-know-what - that's the way to go.

They may as well remove all other races besides Midlander, because I am going to be WINNING that every week!

only started playing FFXIV in 2025

Hey, at least I'm actually playing the game! Dawntrail is LIT!

actually they should move 50% slower so casual peasants can get more of an opportunity to gawk at their accomplishment when they fly by

Hmm, that does seem a bit inconvenient for the rider, but I guess if it was a temporary slow that only happens when you're in the presence of someone who doesn't have the mount, then sure, I think I'd be fine with taking the time out of my day for them. I'll even be helpful and answer where I got it, like, y'know .. the latest extreme .. that just came out, brah.

[papandbuddyg]

just copy WoW's Mythic+ and add more ways to get raid ilvl gear so its not only raiding and tomes for bis for current tier, current gearing is so stale they have followed the same forumla for several expansions in a row there's a big reason for why its so dead inbetween patches

speaking of wow
i often reference how wow does there cycles ffxiv should take a page out of wow's book with this

i feel if ffxiv ESPECIALLY DURING the .55 cycles copies a page from wows book and does stuff like wow remix and wow plunderstorm
or even put more effort into events such as adding world bosses like the ff15 event and the ffxiv mobile penguin event there would be more of a reason to want to play for the people who want to play during downtimes
i feel by doing something like wow remix it would give us a reason to play
i feel adding mythic + is a eh way because not everyone wants to do mythic+ HOWEVER doing something like delves and adding more devles each patch is a nice way to copy the more ways to get raid lvl gear however that isnt really a huge concern because its not really a big thing
another way to copy wow is ffxiv should give us a way to earn currency to buy shop items like guild wars 2 and wow eve online swtor with security token bdo etc etc
i feel that would also give us more to do apose to really nothing much and even give us more a reason to grind gil

[NegativeS]

speaking of wow
i often reference how wow does there cycles ffxiv should take a page out of wow's book with this

i feel if ffxiv ESPECIALLY DURING the .55 cycles copies a page from wows book and does stuff like wow remix and wow plunderstorm
or even put more effort into events such as adding world bosses like the ff15 event and the ffxiv mobile penguin event there would be more of a reason to want to play for the people who want to play during downtimes
i feel by doing something like wow remix it would give us a reason to play
i feel adding mythic + is a eh way because not everyone wants to do mythic+ HOWEVER doing something like delves and adding more devles each patch is a nice way to copy the more ways to get raid lvl gear however that isnt really a huge concern because its not really a big thing
another way to copy wow is ffxiv should give us a way to earn currency to buy shop items like guild wars 2 and wow eve online swtor with security token bdo etc etc
i feel that would also give us more to do apose to really nothing much and even give us more a reason to grind gil

For all the problems WoW may have, they have definitely taken strides in killing the mid-expansion drought. Considering we still have likely over a year until 8.0, I envy them

[theunhappypotato]

just copy WoW's Mythic+ and add more ways to get raid ilvl gear so its not only raiding and tomes for bis for current tier, current gearing is so stale they have followed the same forumla for several expansions in a row there's a big reason for why its so dead inbetween patches

hoenstly i'd be down for something like that