Protesting Frontlines

[Nalien]

Morale changes everything. Heals in pve get killed before they can even pop attu/purify. Heals in high rank pvp gear are like tanks.

What if PvE had the equivalent of i65 Morale from a buff? Again, that's only a i15 difference with three distinct groups (PvE, i70, i90/100 capped).

Imo leave it equal for everyone or don't bother.

My main issue with that is that it doesn't provide anything physical to work towards, and effectively damns Wolves' Den.

If you're working towards the gear, then Wolves' Den is great. Frontlines and Wolves' Den offer the same rewards (ignore tomestones for a minute), but Wolves' Den is much quicker. There would be a much stronger reason to jump into Wolves' Den. Arguable that would take people away from Frontlines, but that's what I imagine the additional tomestone reward is for.

You would still be able to just jump into Frontlines for fun or to obtain the gear, but a gear treadmill would just provide a strong reason to people to continue coming back and create a core that keeps the queues alive. Without something like that, I can only see PvP in XIV turning into a "flavour of the month" style thing, where they release new content, everyone is hyped for it, and eventually that dies down and queues become horrible again until they release the next piece of content that goes through the exact same motions.