So, like many maintenance days, I sat here and read the forums. Some entertaining (saw the Gif mood thread for the first time...HILARIOUS!) Some repetitive ie. XIV sux XI FTW!....need more content, gimme gimme gimme...

Though i did get to thinking, and yes, i smelled smoke and it did hurt a little bit, but i am sure it will pass soon.

Now even though i am getting tired of the XIV sucks threads, and the whole "theres nothing to do content" i have started thinking back on my own experience and realize there are times i have felt things could have been better *puts his hand up in a wait motion* This is not a going to be a rant, or how i think i could have done things better. This is where people will start the whole tl;dr, but i am sorry, someone may read this and that's all that matters

On a whole i think XIV is an excellent game. I played starting in beta 3, within 10 minutes of being in world, i pre-ordered it, Missed beta 4, suffered through the 1017s, 90000s, and the 3102s of early access and launch. Yes, every time i tried to log in and got an error, i cursed at my screen, but i knew that it would finally be worked out and it did.

Finally i get to log in at will and level at my own pace. Sadly, i burn through the content on one job, my WHM. Every quest done. I had a friend that made all my end game gear for me before me returned to WoW. Now i am at 50. shiny 2* HQ gear. This is where my problem started.

Now I have a healer. I am decent on my healer (even more so now that i have a computer upgrade).

Anyway, what i am trying to get at is I am glad to see that SE is getting new content out so quickly (even if its now what everyone expected) because i am hoping that it will provide more incentive to run content, and make the level process more bearable when doing so on ALT classes. FATE grinding may be the fastest way to level, and that is how i got my sch/smn up, but if you have ever tried to grind a caster class up via fates, you know its no easy task unless your a thm/blm who can spam blizzard two til the cows come home. I am really looking forward to DF Roulette and hope that SE follows through with its promise to make leveling alternatives to FATES more productive