I was really excited about 2.1 but the amount of content it added just isn't enough. CT a few times a week at most doesn't do much.

I would love to farm Ultima/EX for their drops on my alts but at this point there is only really two options. Join the FC with lots of good players where half of them are the most vile humans you can find or play with lots of friendly people that absolutely cannot handle it.

I get the feeling there is going to be a lot of people running into this exact problem. There is a massive jump in difficulty from t4/HMs to t5/EM. I have run into similar problems in other games but usually there is a bit more room to carry/overgear content so that it can be done with people at a lower skill level. In their current forms T5/titan EM can't be beat with more than one or two bad players and even then it depends on what their role is and everyone else in the group must be very good to pull it off. Taking 3+ people through those fights if they are average skill level is pretty much impossible.

I love FF and was having fun for a while here but there just isn't any reason to stick around. For the very casual and those into hardcore asshatery I think FFXIV ARR is great but for the rest of us I am not so sure.