What is wrong with people on the forum..?

[Faytte]

I will do the quests for the weapon 210 np,i don't care if it takes me more than a month,i love the game an im also helping everyone on my FC w specialist crafting(4 specialists), i never complain of anything on this game neither since 1.0 all the way to 3.15 ,great job the team has made.
-My only fear is that by the time i finish the relic we had some other access to a higher weapon then i will feel my time was bad invested.. one thing i notice is that things get discontinue really quick,i believe this is what they call vertical progression.
Besides that take it slow,you don't have to get this weapon in 3 days,take your time an enjoy the adventure, recommended to be done with friends for max enjoyment.
******* Socialize in MMO an you will never feel you grinding ever again because friends make it fun an easy.**********

1) Actually if you play at 'normal' levels you should expect closer to two or more months. It depends how 'no life' you can do this. Depending on your mix you are looking at 600+ runs of alexander. If you don't get burnt out, then its totally doable. It's effectively a worse version of 'lights' given those could be done so very rapidly thanks to the reddit community, and even thinking about to the lights---I would never want to do them again.
2) That is a very good concern, but you are wrong; we dont have vertical progression. In vertical progression, you need item X to get item X+1, to get item X+2, to get item X+3. WoW does a good job of this. You need to use catch up mechanics OR dungeons to START LFR. LFR gear is required to do normal. Normal gear is required to do heroic. Heroic gear is required to do mythic. In the middle there is world bosses and other things to supplement.

FFXIV does not have this. They have 2 tiers of gear
1) Catch up tier. This can be gotten very very rapidly.
2) Current top tier. Note: 1 patch after top tier is relevant, catch up tier will be given a way to gain access to top tier.

This cycle means you really never need to do the content to get top tier, you are at most a few months behind a casual method to gain it.
Worst still, getting top tier gear means nothing--you dont use it to access any higher end content that you wont 'get for free' before there is new content. In WoW you need to do heroic raiding to get into mythic (both to learn the strategies as they grow more complex, and for the gear). In FFXIV the tiers are to 'flat' so theres nothing to do with that Savage gear you have, and by the time you can--everyone will have it.