Game Getting DULL

[juniglee]

It's getting dull for me. I now play the waiting game a lot. Queue for Garuda EM for over an hour, party wipes, they leave after 5 minutes. Rinse and repeat.
I can't even get into Thornmarch, no one is interested.
But Coil is keeping me interested a bit.

This is new content though, you can't expect the majority of playerbase to clear it consistently in just over 2 weeks of the content release. Back when they first released hard mode primals too, people took a while before pugging Garuda HM had a high success rate. Currently, you might see higher pug clear rates on Titan HM, compared to a month or two ago, although this could also be partly because of the improvement to the position checking delay, which means less Landslide deaths to lag.

I am rather enjoying the new content myself however. I have been occupying myself learning how to play a healer. It is definitely much more fun than what I first expected. Crystal Tower is a really fun instance too. And I am really enjoying the new HM dungeons. Pharos Sirius was a pain as a healer, but I'm planning to try and tackle it again soon. I've yet to do Pharos Sirius or Copperbell Mines HM as a tank (my main class) however, so I'll have to give that a go sometime.

However, in terms of gear progression, there really isn't much motivation for me to chase gear upgrades. For example, Ultima Choker of Fending does give slightly more VIT than Darklight Choker of Fending, however its other stats are rather bad for a tank, compared to what Darklight Choker of Fending would give me (the main stat on the DL Choker is Accuracy, and it has 2 more Parry than the Ultima Choker of Fending). The new i90 Paladin weapon from completing the 3 Extreme Primals pales in comparison to Curtana (which I am probably not going to +1). It does seem that 2.1 seems to be more of a gear farming patch for the eventual vanity slots that will be coming in 2.2, however as it stands I do not want to collect gear, since both my retainers are filled to the brim, and a lot of the Primal weapons I collected simply as trophies for completing the various HM Primals many times can't be stored in the Armoire, or discarded. I also see 2.1 as more of a patch for people to play alternate classes, which is definitely fun seeing as each class plays different from the others. Farming Ultima or Extreme Primals on alt classes also allow you to get higher leveled accessories for those classes, which also work in conjunction with the weekly i80 loot you can get from CT.