More Horizontal Progression please

[Nektulos-Tuor]

People stand around "doing nothing" in FFXIV for MONTHS because they get the top level equips and while some unsub until the next patch, some stay around "doing nothing" at Mor Dhona/Idyllshare. It's no different, and to be honest, it's even worse in FFXIV's case.

There are 24 slots in EQ2, and the best in slot pieces were all about 2% drop rates. Each Expansion has about 12-15 new dungeons. With a contested dungeon as well which is easier to get loot but you have to fight other players in the zone to kill the bosses.

However, you could also trade contested loot and "Sell Loot Rights" which means you could trade gold for the item and then leader loot the item to the guy who gives you the gold.

Not only that, there are about 10 raids released as well, raids unlike dungeons though have 10-20% chance to drop the best loot and always drops a fabled item per chest.

Trash in raids also drops some of the best loot, but at a lower rate. However they were worth killing and some of the trash was harder to kill then the bosses because of placement and strats.

That game had the opposite problem of FFXIV, the content released faster then anyone could gear up the previous content and items that were good lasted even at high levels next expansion. For example in RoK I could never touch raid content because I never finished Dungeon Content. I barely got my Mythical before the expansion ended.