Recently I've been finding myself with less and less interest to play ffxiv. I've been working on Goldsmithing off and on when the mood (or lack of anything else to do) hits. Sometimes I catch myself just sitting there looking at my other monitor going through these very forums hoping for some new news.

Last night during my static leve run I think I linked instead of aspecting... twice. This lack of focus came from a lack of interest which came from the fact that this was probably the 500th time I'd done these exact same leves since I started leveling a few fighting classes.

I woke up this morning about to log on and thought to myself, why? I'm going to log in and waste hours of my life grinding away doing the same motions that I've been doing for months and I have news for you SE, It's not fun.

The crafting system (like many people have said) is very boring. It was enjoyable at first, but when you creep up on your 500th hour of sitting in one spot hitting standard to finish a synth so you can throw it away to make room for more, the novelty ends quickly.

Where is the "content" for crafters? I seriously enjoyed the Alchemist storyline, why can't leves be more like that? Why can't our leve quests have meaning instead of the same "make 6 rings so the strippers can put them in sensitive places" everyday? Why can't we come to an NM fight and (like the Goldsmith quest with the spriggan) need to pick up items around the spawn point to craft and throw at the monster to weaken it? You have the mechanics already, how about you use your imaginations to put those mechanics to good use? There are hundreds (still thousands?) of people in the game that could come up with encounters using the same mechanics that are in place now... without needing an overhaul.

With the promise of actual content coming in 1.18 (Dungeons and their bosses mainly) we may actually have some more interesting things to do. But FFXIV was interesting at first too. How long will the novelty last? And will it be something we can enjoy at least 3 months down the road without wanting something different (aside from the usual trolls of course)

But if it fails (I mean miserably not troll whine fail) For how many of you is this the final straw?