In need of alternative endgame content

[Welsper59]

Um... 72 hour lock out on Dynamis, I think is was 48 on Limbus, SKY and SEA was combo of 1-3 hours spawns and force pop NM. Salvage was 24 hour lock out, Nyzul Isle was based on tokens acquired.

So in XIV we have 168 hour lock out on out 1 highest tier content and no lock out on stuff that by in large doesn't matter any more.

XI maybe have taken a long time to get 1 certain item you were looking for, but there was alternatives to getting similar gear available, and you could involve multiple groups if needed.

It's actually many years after XI launch that alternatives to getting gear were made available. When you actually think about the situation at the time, I think you'd enjoy the current lock outs more. Dynamis, open world HNMs, and Sky were relevant end game content for years before Sea/Limbus/Salvage/etc were made available. So just banking on those 3 content sources (primarily), you really didn't have much to go on. Especially if you take into account those HNMs being open world... you didn't get claim? That potentially 24hr wait just turned into a possible 48hr wait (4-7 days more if you were hopeful on the KB/Aspi/Nid claim). It didn't help that the gear that dropped from any given source was nowhere near the best for many jobs

Assuming you're being 100% truthful about what you want, it's not the lockout that's your problem, it's the progression methods. If the ilvl of gear from dungeons or CT were around the same as Coil, it'd offer you a lot more to do wouldn't it?