Vaer has a major point with the limited life.

I agree with many on the fact that the endgame design of FFXIV is horrible because everything progress wise is the same and in a strait line. The core game design is what is preventing anything meaningful. But honestly that same problem of why we cannot have XI style content is why alot of people are stopping Alex savage as well now... the time investment to clear it too much for its lifespan.

All that work you put into clearing Coils, Savage Alex. It is all worthless in 6ish months typically. Those 600-1000 hours getting the gear... all completely pointless in the end because it will be ENTREE LEVEL ENDGAME GEAR in the next even patch.

I know the majority of people I play in my guild stop logging in until next patch because they are sick of only having Savage to do. Many said it was just not worth the work to obtain. The title of "OH we beat it" means little because what is the point on the large scale the savage alex gear will be worthless in a few months, completely worthless. Why bash your head on content, get in fights with static members, watch your guild lose members because people are left out.

The bigger issue in my opinion is The top tier gear comes from NON-GUILD related activities. Meaning there is honestly no real purpose of being in a guild besides social activities since the content was specifically designed to hurt your progression if you try to operate as a guild. This is causing endgame guilds to more or less hemorrhage members every single Even number patch. SE needs to either make more equivalent content that can be done in guilds that gets TOP tier gear.... or stop making Static content give BIS stuff it is too cancerous to endgame guilds. A Static should never be more important then your guild ever in a mmo.... and I am pretty sure the majority would agree your static is the most important thing for progression in FFXIV.

The whole island exploration thing is a good start... BUT it needs to be updated every patch... so that it is an equivalent progression with Savage Alex, AND NOT BE TREATED AS A CATCH UP MECHANIC. We also need several more types of content like this for guilds that also drop some BIS gear or equivalent. It would not fix the content negation problem, but it would help guilds not fall apart. It would also solve the problem of only having more then just a few dungeons and a hard mode raid to spam every week on a even patch.