@OP Yeah, Trabia is pretty empty at times. I had trouble last night gathering together a raptor party for ranks 30-35. It will possibly get better to be honest you just have to wait and see.

@Venat With the new recipes introduced in 1.19 they are actually fixing the surplus of items you are speaking of, check the main page of the lodestone.

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@everyone raging about game should be ready by now because it's still be sold in store. I'm not digging through a million articles about FFXIV's dev team changes, but iirc it was stated in one of them that it was estimated to take 2 to 2.5 years to make FFXIV retail ready meaning that we still have at least 1 more year. In all honesty since the dev team changes it hasn't really even been a full year of patching because of all of the ground work the new dev team had to do. But with 1.19's attribute adjustment, further leve adjustments, grand company additions, materia, recipe and crafting revamp, and new equipment stat revisions more content related items should start rolling in from now on.

NOTE: We already know about the job system which imo is a huge step to adding the capability of challenging content, and the Ifrit battle really is good considering the amount of content they have prepared in 1.19 for the 2 month interval it has been since last patch