Please Stop Making Content-Less Grinds

[Riion]

Yeah, everything is becoming an absurd grind. It's really disheartening that by playing moderately every single day there are pieces of gear I still wouldn't see for months. I like the game, but I don't want to live in it 24/7 to accomplish something of worth.

[Tupsi]

Yeah, everything is becoming an absurd grind. It's really disheartening that by playing moderately every single day there are pieces of gear I still wouldn't see for months. I like the game, but I don't want to live in it 24/7 to accomplish something of worth.

Did you know? Second Coil has a 1 week lockout, thus it will take a month or more to complete a set of armor for your main? Just like it did for the first coil of bahamut back in 2.0? Did you know, Labyrinth of Ancients had a 1 week lockout and it would take 1 month or more to complete a set for your main/alt/whatever you wanted to complete? Did you know, Syrcus Tower has a 1 week lockout on gear/tomestone and will ta...you get the idea.

Taking awhile to get what you want is nothing new to XIV, FF or MMORPGs. You don't have to be on 24/7 to do the Hildebrand quests, or to try primals and such.

[Ransu]

Taking awhile to get what you want is nothing new to XIV, FF or MMORPGs.

Depends on the game :P SWTOR has become so casual that drops in operations are just tokens now. If a guild has hard mode on farm they can take a new guild member through two operations in one night and have full gear. Wont be min maxed but it will be the highest tier lol.

[Riion]

Did you know? Second Coil has a 1 week lockout, thus it will take a month or more to complete a set of armor for your main? Just like it did for the first coil of bahamut back in 2.0? Did you know, Labyrinth of Ancients had a 1 week lockout and it would take 1 month or more to complete a set for your main/alt/whatever you wanted to complete? Did you know, Syrcus Tower has a 1 week lockout on gear/tomestone and will ta...you get the idea.

Taking awhile to get what you want is nothing new to XIV, FF or MMORPGs. You don't have to be on 24/7 to do the Hildebrand quests, or to try primals and such.

Sigh, a month is reasonable. Three or more months is not. If I did a Three Frontlines every single day it would still take me over three months to get a full set of the highest tier pvp gear. Three months...every single day. That's not discounting the price of the sets below that, either. Nice try, though.

[Abraxis]

Sigh, a month is reasonable. Six months is not.

I'm inclined to agree. Granted each patch adds changes to drops, quantity, locations in which to obtain items and what not...but the fact remains, the way they currently have the grind factor set up for most things, assuming nothing gets changed, items that are currently end-game or BiS will be impossible to obtain while they're relevant, since the time needed to get said item, would lapse into the next patch/expansion making it utterly pointless and obsolete.

I think SE is taking the "prolong time invested to obtain reward" a bit TOO far in a majority of the games aspects. But hey, that's my $0.02.