SE morally reprehensible behavior

[Neophyte]

Then what are sale runs? Just because Alex Savage isn't sellable right this moment doesn't mean groups won't be doing it in the near future. A1 and A2 will for sure be sellable once groups gear up. And I don't know about you, but finding anyone to sell favor items is like pulling teeth.

Lel... I think it will be around ~15-25 Millionen Gil for one A1S-kill, giving you (maybe) 1 drop / 1 token, regarding T13 was still >10 Millionen with +20% Echo back in 2.x

With that ammount of gil you can get all crafter/gatherer to 60 and get a bunch of favor items in few weeks (when most gatherer have 2xMH-tool, the favor-fix is applied and ppl start selling more).

Right now you find few ppl selling favor items, but no one selling A-S. In a few weeks you see A1S for >20 Millionen Gil and lower favor mat prices.

At least you can make big gil with a gatherer now... better than in 2.x where the highest, timegated ***-lumber in HQ would sell for idk.. 2-3k gil.

[Kuwaitum]

I want to be frank and -might be- my post will be deleted but I want to say it. I am an almost daily player of FFXIV since release date, as a crafter I gave up competing with other crafters mainly the fresh starters. I craft/gather for hours weekly for months to hit Lv.50, just to see myself be out beaten by a One-week-player-old-gil-buyers that bought thierselves to a Lv.50 in mere days and only what stops them from Insta-4-Stars in all crafts are the Leve(s) balance which they devour since everything else is bought from the Market Board using gil.

At that time, I knew as in real life there are the Lucky, the Theif, and the Cheater. I stopped competing and only focused to have fun. I craft for fun and mostly to help new players. I am happy about it, I put the concern about being tiptop behind me. I admit that competing with people that: (1. Have time, or 2. Buy thier way to super crafter, or 3. Cheat/bot their way) is just a waste of time, especially when you are certain and sure that the content will be nerfed down and never the opposite.

*note: I am not generalizing to all craters/gatherers, but everyone knows many are like that.

[Shadowsun]

I wouldn't count lower difficulties as "raid" content.
The highest difficulty of each is definitely raid content.

The other difficulties are just too easy and simple to be counted.

[Roth_Trailfinder]

I wouldn't count lower difficulties as "raid" content.
The highest difficulty of each is definitely raid content.

The other difficulties are just too easy and simple to be counted.

Difficulty does not matter.

Just because they were easy, that does not exclude LotA, ST, or WoD from being classified as "raid".
Just because it is hard (and lets face it, it is the hardest under 50 fight in the game) Garuda NM is not considered a "raid".

Easy raids are still raids. Hard group content can be harder than the easier raids, but it is still group content, not raid content.

[Thrustie]

I don't think you're the grand master of MMOs who gets to determine what the word "Raid" is ultimately defined as. In FFXIV raids are clearly defined in the duty finder menu so it's not really up for interpretation. It's silly to argue semantics in what the game clearly defines already.

[Roth_Trailfinder]

I don't think you're the grand master of MMOs who gets to determine what the word "Raid" is ultimately defined as. In FFXIV raids are clearly defined in the duty finder menu so it's not really up for interpretation. It's silly to argue semantics in what the game clearly defines already.

I'm not. Neither is SE, who is arbitrarily cherry picking what they are calling a raid and what they are not.

I'm simply using the accepted definition, not SE's random-choice-but-lack-of-definition.

That said, I think this little subtopic has gotten rather astray from the thread's subject.

[Xaenith]

Did all you DoH and DoL levels get reset to 1? That would be a reset...

HW content is supposed to be *after* ARR content so why would having all 50 crafts but you at the end of HW???

That's like saying 'OMG I was max level and now max level is 60 so I got reset' it's frankly not true. There's simply more content added that you can play now and how is that a bad thing? If you don't enjoy it nobody is forcing you to do HW content.

I just started 2 weeks ago so all my crafts are like level 20 and I won't hit HW content for months. I don't care though because by the time I do there will be more content to go through and it'll take me a long time to catch up. TBH when you like a game you don't want it to end because then there is little to do. Being on the top in real life is sweet but being on the top in a video game is almost always not what it's cracked up to be.

[Tanthalas]

welcome to mmo's

[Zarzak]

they've taken all that mattered in FFXIV ARR and RESET it.

You mean like every MMO has done to raiders since WoW?

You mean like XIV did to raiders THREE times since release?

Really tell me how hard you have it as a crafter......

[Dante_V]

Oh this must be your first MMO, welcome!. Please grab the stick to your left and a staff member will be over to attach the carrot shortly.