Thread: Frustration regarding Patch 2.2

To an extent, the OP has some valid points.

The issue I've had with the past couple of content updates is that they've heavily favoured the extremely wealthy. Want to participate in housing? Better be in a wealthy FC. Want to level multiple crafts? Have fun buying enough of the crafting materials which are now the barrier to entry, since Philosophy tomestones aren't around anymore. They weren't even nice enough to let us purchase the items with Mythology, which frankly I find rather annoying; there is no efficient way to "target" materials like Potash anymore except through the AH. Considering you would need a grand total of 112,500 GC Seals in order to accumulate the minimum amount necessary to access a Mastery book for a single craft, I'm not rating this as being particularly efficient.

The fun doesn't end there, however. Want to go after the new Gathering stuff? Have fun stacking materia on your gear, and good luck with the AH prices. To be fair, they did improve spiritbond rates, but the entire materia system is a giant RNG that is programmed to destroy your gil. Exceedingly wealthy players? No problem. Everyone else? It's a lot of work.

I have absolutely no issue with long-term goals; it's how the crafting and gathering goals are set up that's bothering me. If you look at Zodiac weaponry, that makes all the sense in the world - wealthy player, poor player, it all depends on the amount of time you're willing to invest, mod some luck with the RNG. That's how to do a long-term challenge. Crafting and gathering jobs have absolutely no equivalent; instead, we're effectively being told that unless you're wealthy, you have an exceedingly high barrier of entry. This was a lazy way to keep materia relevant for Gathering, and Philosophy items relevant for the markets. Nothing more, and nothing less.

This is what you complain about?
What about the ungodly lag in instances?
Surely that is more of an issue than content taking a little longer to get. lol

Originally Posted by Rikitiki

Executive summary / TL;DR - S-E, please stop advertising new game features and then placing barriers in front of them that will require months of work to surmount.

I was really looking forward to this patch. So many things in there that I wanted to do!

But I do know this. First time's an accident, second time's a coincidence, third time something is seriously wrong. Housing prices were an accident. All the walls preventing us from getting at the new stuff in 2.2? That's a coincidence. If 2.3 ends up being just as frustrating, that will mark a trend. A very, very bad trend.

Be happy you don't play a real Mmorpg. Today's action rpgs + chat component are easy in comparison. And yes, the post limit is a joke. Obsly they lack common sense and don't read the forums. (Notice 99% of your post missing, otherwise I couldn't post)

Originally Posted by Seraphita

This is what you complain about?
What about the ungodly lag in instances?
Surely that is more of an issue than content taking a little longer to get. lol

Time for a new PC! I don't have any lag instances or otherwise... Data lag? Video lag? ..

You're aware you just replied to a thread that was last active four and a half months ago, right?

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