Thread: What's supposed to hold us over to 2.2?

Originally Posted by BobbinT

You don't even know how those dungeon fares compared with AK/WP. For all we know, it might even gave fresh options and perhaps faster means than WP. For one thing, farming WP daily has became mind-numbing effort. lol

The "fresh" factor will evaporate on day two.
And unless it rewards so many tomes that farming it is faster than farming WP, it will become deserted in no time. It's four months too late to be viable.

Right now, the only challenging fight in the entire game is Turn 5 Twintania. Part due to curious mechanics (never mind the fact that twister was dead broken for two months) and also because there's a steep gear check, requiring quite a bit of ilvl 90 gear. The only way to overcome this is to farm mythology for AF2, then farm turns 1, 2 and 4 for Allagan drops. Which will still be capped at 450 tomes per week/8 drops per coil static per week. After you've done this, there's nothing to keep you from shelving the game until 2.2 (unless you happen to be an altoholic) if you're a progress-oriented PvE player. None of the 2.1 content serves to further your progression, which is kinda sad.

Originally Posted by Yenn

I'm really curious if 2.1 has anything that's intended to hold those of us who have been running Bahamut's Coil for months over to 2.2.

As it stands, virtually everyone who has cleared Bahamut's Coil only logs in for 40 minutes each week, and then logs off for the rest of the week. We've run it so many times that we have people with two full i90 jobs.
As far as I can tell, 2.1 brings absolutely nothing to keep us attracted to the game; we severely out-gear everything that's being added and it provides no form of progression for our characters.

Is there any plan to provide us with hold over content, or are we just going to be left to get bored and stop logging on?

wow about 1% of the population has cleared coil....

Recycled primals.

I bet less than 0.1% of all players have cleared turn 5, and they should be congratulated for their accomplishment. They're fortunate enough to be in a group of equally skilled individuals who can complete the content. That's awesome. But if that means they now have nothing to do, well, sorry. The rest of us 99.9%ers will still have plenty to do and cool stuff to look forward to.

I personally am looking forward to everything and I play a lot. I haven't cleared turn 5 yet but am working towards that, I enjoy making gil and am ready to run dungeons with new jobs to level up and gain MVP points. I also enjoy doing achievements and am interested in the vanity gear and saving for my house and contributing to my FC home. There is a lot to do, it might not get you a new piece of gear but who cares? The point is to enjoy playing, and as far as I see it there is a lot to enjoy for just a patch. I can't wait for the first expansion to come out.

Originally Posted by Xenobius

there is *NOTHING* to do outside of dungeons, and dungeons follow progression.

Ultimately, most if not all MMOs fit your complaints....

Don't understand the "If you are good enough to finish content faster then most then you're out of luck, who cares".... if the game was ALL hard content, then the people who post these comments would be making posts about how THEY don't have content THEY can do... perspective people... don't hate on people just because they feel their needs aren't being met. It is a petty argument.