Thread: Gear Progression after 2.2

I stopped playing this game about a month ago. Not because I didn't enjoy the game, but I got to ilevel 90 with my BLM in 3 months and I really didn't feel like spending another 3 months on each class, so I stopped subbing and decided I'd retry again after the next big patch.

However, I saw patch notes and such about 2.2 and noticed we get new tomes. There was also information about the fact that Coil 1-5 will no longer have lock-outs and Myth Tomes won't have caps, essentially turning Myth gear into the new Philo gear.

This essentially means I spent $45 total to play every week to get the slightest chance to upgrade my gear, yet anyone with a few days spare time can now farm for all the gear I struggled to obtain and get to where I am with very little effort other than boring grinding. The $45 (or 60 if you include the first month of leveling my first class and getting used to the game) all came to me having maybe a weeks headstart on the new content than anyone who just reached level 50.

I'm not against this system and I understand their reasoning. I mean, what's the point in making epic new content if only 1% of the game population is going to get to experience it, with even less being able to experience the next content. I also know that other MMORPG's have used this in the past.

Is this going to happen every 3-6 months, though? Am I going to struggle to obtain all this new gear just to have it unlocked when I'm finished obtaining it so everyone else can obtain it stress-free? I wouldn't mind if it was with every expansion rather than every coil update, but it feels like I might as well wait until 2.4 comes and farm for 2.2's gear and keep doing that.

I'm not angry at the game, nor am I complaining or hoping it'll bend to my will or anything, I'm just wondering if this is a game I want to keep investing in. I wouldn't mind if it was a F2P MMORPG, but spending money for weeks of playtime to gain gear only to have it obtainable in a few days later on feels like a bad use of my money, is all.

If this is the case I won't be able to re-sub, but I wish the game all the luck in the world and hope it doesn't fail. I really enjoyed my 3 months of playing. Probably the most fun I've had in an MMORPG when it came to end-game and I'm a huge lover of the FF series as a whole. The money I've spent so far has felt worthwhile, so I don't regret playing.

Sidenote: If anyone in my FC reads this, I kind-of forgot to say I wasn't playing anymore, so... yeah. Woops.

This essentially means I spent $45 total to play every week to get the slightest chance to upgrade my gear, yet anyone with a few days spare time can now farm for all the gear I struggled to obtain and get to where I am with very little effort other than boring grinding

What about fun ?

You don't pay for gear. You pay to play the game. Thinking about the cost effectiveness of subscription spent on gear is a really, really bad way to look at MMOs. You spend money to enjoy the game, and if you don't enjoy it, it's better not to play.

Even if the myth cap is removed, if the rate of getting myth doesn't change, its still gonna be a long grind. I mean with the current philo earning rate, you could get 2-3 piece a day and 200 philo per CT run. With mytho, this is only 50 per run.

If the myth is going to be the new philo, the earning rate must change and give 200-300 myth per run, or else, its still gonna be hard (long) to get even 1 piece per day.