More Horizontal Progression please

[Luciano_Bozzelli]

How is standing around doing nothing for 2+ hours less tedious than actually actively doing something in hopes of a drop?

It's not the standing around we remember... It's the waking up in the wee hours of the morning to see if somebody was at your camping spot, hiding around a rock to monitor that man running around killing lizards. Should I come out of invisible and show myself... Should i let him keep killing lizards and stick around to see if leaping lizzy pops? Who is that guy? I wonder how he got that earring? (might I add that is something that never gets wondered around ffxiv, we know how to obtain everything).

And might I add, camping for 2+ hours in hopes of getting that drop, meant you had an item that would last for a very long time, and get a lot of use from it. Over years worth of use, not just I beat Alex regular I got my body peice tokens, and a week later that body peice is avg and damn near useless even though it took me 4 weeks to get it!

Working real hard to camp NM's to upgrade my Law gear to 180 for it to get replaced the second i step in Alex normal, that hard worked upgraded jewelry was outdated within days!! Days!! You know how fast I had to run to those NM's before they died, how I had to keep my ear to the linkshells, and the area shouts... I spent a lot of hours doing that kind of camping too, but I don't use that gear anymore do I? What's the difference?