Is FF14's tome system and endgame horribly flawed?

[Gardes]

Gonna repost this again. The content and reward distribution is unbalanced and unfair. Easy content should never provide the same reward as the best reward that hard content provides while mid tier content provides less. The i200/210 tome reward should have not been rewarded by faceroll dungeons even at i180. The horizontal progression excuse is nonsense because adding more ilvl cap gear isn't going to make it horizontal when secondary stats have been further nerfed in relevance and are still going to be replaced constantly before actual level cap is increased. If the 'tome' gear has to stay, it should be moved to mid tier content.

[Fevelle]

Gonna repost this again. The content and reward distribution is unbalanced and unfair. Easy content should never provide the same reward as the best reward that hard content provides while mid tier content provides less. The i200/210 tome reward should have not been rewarded by faceroll dungeons even at i180. The horizontal progression excuse is nonsense because adding more ilvl cap gear isn't going to make it horizontal when secondary stats have been further nerfed in relevance and are still going to be replaced constantly before actual level cap is increased. If the 'tome' gear has to stay, it should be moved to mid tier content.

Yes it should. And that's why we have caps. You can choose: spend time or do the hardest content. The rewards will be the same, the routes, different.

[Jim_Berry]

Yes it should. And that's why we have caps. You can choose: spend time or do the hardest content. The rewards will be the same, the routes, different.

Agreed!

I, myself, am at a state where my option is to spend the time, since I do not meet certain requirements to Raid:

No TeamSpeak:
- Everyone seems to make this mandatory now. I only have access to PS4 chat, Kik, and Skype (no computer, no laptop, using Windows Phone, which does not support TeamSpeak).

Time:
- My work schedule.

Experience:
- Many groups who are looking for reps are on AS3, while I still have yet to clear AS1.

Funny thing about voip and Alex Savage, is that I learned it without TeamSpeak. But because I bring the bonus, many non-learning groups barely give me a chance.

[hagare]

Gonna repost this again. The content and reward distribution is unbalanced and unfair. Easy content should never provide the same reward as the best reward that hard content provides while mid tier content provides less. The i200/210 tome reward should have not been rewarded by faceroll dungeons even at i180. The horizontal progression excuse is nonsense because adding more ilvl cap gear isn't going to make it horizontal when secondary stats have been further nerfed in relevance and are still going to be replaced constantly before actual level cap is increased. If the 'tome' gear has to stay, it should be moved to mid tier content.

did you factor in the head start the raid has in your calculations?
did you factor in that the easy content is accessible for everyone in your calculations?
did you factor in gear life cycle in your calculations?
did you factor in that the easy content won't get the same gear in the raid in your calculations?
did you factor in the purpose of a catch up patch in your calculations?
etc etc etc

[Azazua_azura]

Gonna repost this again. The content and reward distribution is unbalanced and unfair. Easy content should never provide the same reward as the best reward that hard content provides while mid tier content provides less. The i200/210 tome reward should have not been rewarded by faceroll dungeons even at i180. The horizontal progression excuse is nonsense because adding more ilvl cap gear isn't going to make it horizontal when secondary stats have been further nerfed in relevance and are still going to be replaced constantly before actual level cap is increased. If the 'tome' gear has to stay, it should be moved to mid tier content.

who pissed in her corn flakes?? please keep in mind the the terms "hard" "easy" "face roll" are SUB-JECT-IVE. AND are NOT factual representation of content.

[SendohJin]

who pissed in her corn flakes?? please keep in mind the the terms "hard" "easy" "face roll" are SUB-JECT-IVE. AND are NOT factual representation of content.

what's not subjective are failure rates.

Savage > EX Primals > Alex Normal / 24 Man Alliance > Expert Dungeons

you can use any words to label them as you want but the % of times people enter content and fail to complete the content in the allotted time or choose to quit without clearing the content is not subjective at all.

Lots of people enter Savage and fail to complete it. Less so for EX Primals but failures are not unheard of.

Alex Normal and 24 man content is usually cleared by people who enter but there are still some occasions were people abandon.

Expert roulettes are almost always cleared but sometimes they take a lot longer and in really rare circumstances people also abandon.