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    ThirdChild_ZKI's Avatar
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    Lace Valeria
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    Jenova
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    Machinist Lv 80
    I think the bigger problem is that most players now naturally expect a speed run, such to the point that any dungeons that have mechanics that require players to slow down and do more than just run an enemy gauntlet get skipped over, or people leave at the start.

    Brayflom HM in roulette? Must be a speed run.
    Castrum Meridianum, with a mostly veterans and just a few first timers? Must be a speed run.
    Crystal Tower? Oh, gotta speed run!

    This is what leads to crap like "It's not Brayflox, so I quit" or overall poor habits like enemy lockouts (no really, teach a brand new lv 50 Tank/DPS that this is what they're SUPPOSED to do. . . see how well that ends for them in other content). Yes, the Party Finder will allow for people to get exactly what they want, but inversely, the Duty Finder does not automatically mean it's a speed run.

    I think we all need to get over this rabid obsession with hitting caps and doing so as quickly as possible. Yes, I understand that current trends/content pretty much encourage farming (something I personally find terrible and refuse to reinforce), but to the point where the larger majority expect speed runs or that anyone would suggest adding a designator for speed runs (which, let me say is NOT a bad idea, merely redundant), then we have a problem.

    EDIT: Let me add that - as my own personal choice as a player - I have chosen not to partake in the Zodiac Saga. I threw away my first book, I barely do FATES (a necessary evil as I recently switched GCs), and I am definitely NOT lacking for things to do. I've been helping others learn Ex Primals, challenging Turn 5 to reach SCOB, actually crafting for a change, and leveling the classes I felt like I was never going to level, even making a return to tanking. . . And all because I'm NOT wasting my time, energy, and myth tomes on any aspect of the Zodiac Saga.

    Am I saying "be like me, I'm the one who's right"? No. I am merely citing my own example to say that I am free and I am enjoying almost everything that the game currently has to offer, at the expense of trying to complete content that was designed to trade skill for time. I don't speed run ANYTHING. And I still get all the tomes I need for whatever I want. I don't even TRY to cap weekly. . . yet lately, I do without even realizing it. I've run Brayflox HM twice in a week's time (and that's enough), and I feel I have more to show for it than those who farm it through speed runs.

    Liberate yourselves people. There's more to this game than speed runs, "Mythflox", and Zodiac.
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    Last edited by ThirdChild_ZKI; 06-17-2014 at 04:28 PM.