I have a few issues with the end game.

[Mogi]

1 welcome to the game^^ seems others don't know how to say this 2 your best bet is to work on a other class it's a lot of fun and sort of the point of this game if your just going to sit on one class things will slow down

[NefGP]

The game's still early, but given all their experience from XI they should have come up with better. 2.2 will improve things a bit, but I'm worried about a perpetual cycle of patches rehashing the same old **** blocks and tired, predictable mechanics.

It would be nice if we could more freely meld our gear like in 1.23, or at least have abjuration gear like in XI that's crafted first and then you have to fight super strong NMs for the items to lift the curses - ANYTHING to make crafting relevant at endgame. Crafting & Gathering were supposed to be central to the game but they've been tossed aside to please the super-casuals who only care about getting their next shiny fix ASAP.

Melded gear should be the best in the game like before, because the risk and cost associated with it was perfectly balanced. So what if some guy has an item with 5x STR V materia in it? Given the horribly low success rates on forbidden melds, I'd say it's more than fair - especially since Materia prices would likely sky rocket as a result.

[Noahlimits]

Let's pull out his lodestone, because that matters in this argument *eyeroll*.

He likely called out his lodestone because the OP lied about himself. He stated he's already 'six items from full i90', so checking his lodestone does have some credibility in this context. Then he mentioned EX primals, which the OP didn't mention as a thing to do either.

But I agree this game is lacking content. I just don't mind since 2.2 is just around the corner.

[Senfei]

I'm kind of confused as to which MMO people have played in the past that has a lot of non-pvp content once they have obtained all of the best gear possible.

I can't think of any.

[Dyvid]

Well given this is a troll post it's hardly worth the time but let's actually look at the end game

5 dungeons to earn ToP / ToM - gear progression
4 HM Primal fights for weapons - usefully when vanity comes out but that's about it
Crystal Tower - Vanity / gear progression till you buy i90 or earn coil
Ultima weapon plus Primal EX - i90 accessories + weapon progression
Coil turn 1-5
Behemoth & Odin - Vanity
PvP

It's a decent amount even though in terms of 1.23 we are just now caught up with most of the gear. Still it's far from nothing to do. And since people love to toss XI around like it had all end game content from the start, I would like to point out that it took 3 months after Rise of the Zilart come out before Sky was introduced and seven months after that until Dynamis hit the scene.

[Blazer]

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What you mentioned is all fun and good but can be capped out rather quickly.
People farm philos for darklight > get ct stuff (1 item per week) > myth stuff (1 item per week)> coil stuff (if you're lucky 1-2 items per week)>Primal stuff (the only actual worthwhile items you can farm).
...That's a lot of weekly cap. IMO the only thing done "right" in the endgame thus far would be the primal fights.

Once a player obtains their darklight gear reality sets in: "Wait, it's going to take me HOW LONG to get that?" And not in the sense of "man that's really something I'm going to have to work hard for!" The RNG in coil is annoying and if you try to tell me "myths are something people work for" I'll tell you that I use treasure hunting to get myths.

Also, please don't compare FFXI endgame to FFXIV, us FFXI vets know the current endgame in XIV will never be similar or compare no matter how much time passes.

[NefGP]

^ seriously. At least you could do Dynamis every 3 days (same with Einherjar I think?) and you weren't limited to a single coffer at the end of the run, etc etc...

[Dyvid]

^ seriously. At least you could do Dynamis every 3 days (same with Einherjar I think?) and you weren't limited to a single coffer at the end of the run, etc etc...

I know right! I mean after farming the whole zone for 3 hours you at least had 4 or 5 drops between 64 people to fight over. That was sooooo much better....

[NefGP]

QQ over bad luck/poorly geared THF

http://nexua.org/niji/butthurt-form/

[Vallug]

You have a problem with end game? Well gee it you must be the FIRST PERSON EVERY To make a thread about this! After a week of reading GD I cannot believe how many people come on here and repost. Course I see just as many doom and gloom threads on WoW so this is no surprise.