FFXIV and Risk vs. Reward

[TarynH]

Any job can take out any single open world enemy in 5 or less hits.

Thank God for that! Who wants to sit and hack at a mob for 5 minutes? What is this? FFXI? Do you want them to add BST, so everyone can bandwagon a job to get casual CORE content done? Or how about we add true sight/sound mobs so that gatherers can't use stealth?! Oh wait... they did! Nobody bitches about that in Diadem huh?

I don't mind if "hardcore" players want hardcore content. Just leave it separate from the main core of the game. There are various types of hardcore and casual players, that shouldn't be lumped into generalizations. I'll assume most casual players won't want to get a hunting party together to go around and do their daily beast tribe quests, all because someone wants random IT++ monsters tossed into the overworld. It's bad enough having to work around A ranks that nobody kills. I don't want to sit and /check everything before I run by it. It's a waste of time for a casual player.

But let's try to understand exactly what you want, without running down the content that we have in general. Going by the logic of your post, you want monsters that you can't burst kill in 5 or less hits. You want monsters that rise in strength by some sort of tier system. You want random harder monsters to spawn as you attack normal monsters, that can kill you in 1 hit. You want to grind and grind for hours, and not be able to "faceroll" content. May I introduce to you, Diadem. It's everything you've mentioned, and you can grind on it for hours for little to no reward (dependent on RNG).

But what it really boils down to, is you want FFXI in FFXIV. Which is fine if you do. It was a good game in its time. I personally don't want FFXI again. There are only so many years of my life, and I don't want to waste them waiting for /shout parties in Jeun... err Idyllshire.