So don't people cap soldiery anymore or...?

[Cherie]

This is just something I notice when trying to cap my soldiery. Usually I run mythflox with friends or just run primals with them or something to cap soldiery for the week. Recently my free company broke up so I just have been using duty finder for mythflox groups.

Then I notice something strange, no one has any soldiery gear in these duty finder groups! I mean, sure I understand there are lots of new players with the PS4 release but after like 20 runs over the last two weeks, it was very rare to see anyone with a single soldiery piece. It was maybe every other run, I'd see like one person that might have 1-2 pieces.

It doesn't really matter that they don't have it, it bothers me none and we clear the dungeons just fine. It does make me think though, do people quit the game these days before they farm enough soldiery to get a piece of gear? It might make sense, give that maybe during their free month, they reach 50 and to get the chestpiece (which most people seem to like to get first) it takes two weeks or so.

It just seems sad, do people quit just willy nilly like that lately? I remember back months ago when myth had a cap, you'd often see people with some myth gear. It wasn't hard to get after all! It just required that maybe they play a month or two and they'd be clad in a couple pieces of the stuff.

Personally I think people can do what they want but, I just wonder like, why are people leaving if they are? And if not, why bother sticking around if they aren't even doing dungeons? .... It's just weird to me. I do realize people have alt jobs they do farming on, but 1 in 8 having any soldiery gear seems to suggest it's a bit more that that.

[AiChyan]

Personally I'm too busy working on animus books and gathering to do full runs of expert level dungeons. I have SoL pieces but its been months since I last capped my Sol tomes.

[Cspr_Answrth]

I cap soldiery every week. If I do content on my bard, it's got 7 pieces equipped...
However, when I do things on my tank, it only has 1. It's possibly people are just playing on their secondaries.

[NintenPyjak64]

Personally, I have no reason for Soldiery for SMN any longer. Getting the gloves and boots I still need will drop my accuracy for SCoB. I don't have another class I'd like to play in SCoB so I have no reason to upgrade past i90 for some of my alt jobs.

Now if they added Sands for 1.5-2k tomes, then that'd be a better incentive for me to cap each week, but beyond T8 and the upcoming CT2, what'd be the point? What else could they add to the NPCs to give people more of an incentive to cap?

[Cherie]

True true, I guess maybe the people farming soldiery are people that just don't have any soldiery gear for their main class and want some? That might make sense. I like that idea better than people just quitting the game.

Obviously since I play this game, i want it to be successful... hehe

[Ooshima]

I cap them

But I dunno what to do with them anymore.

They are just inferior to HA drops albiet HA are RNG. Maybe I just buy all weathered weapons then.

[Shiki_Lockhart]

You can get people not going with their main job like me... I main mnk and sub sch but I go pld for the roulettes since is instant and get extra gil.

[Erendis]

I never capped soldiery I bought healer chest with soldiery, got some tomes from running new dungeons once and the rest from beastmen dailies and treasure maps

[Zaiken]

Well, if they make the Soldiery Gear less ugly and not losing tons of Accuracy for certain class like Paladin, Bard, etc, then more people would be tempted to get it. The only decent looking Soldiery is the Bard one.

And yeah most people are Spirit Binding now since they need it for their next Novus Weapon.

[Darki]

It could be allot of the parties are SB parties.