So anyone else tired of grinding tomes weekly for gear?

[Mycow8me]

I'm just tired of it. Seriously. Just not all that interested in savage for some reason. Ex primals are fun still though.

Miss Big Game Hunting with fc buddies... the same buddies that dont play anymore for the same reason.

Dont mind farming or grinding honestly. I really dont. The tomes are just getting old. Weekly caps getting old. Creating difficulty modes hard/ex/savage... its just old. Surely theres another way.

I will admitt upfront im an old ffxi player. I dont expect this game to stray from its course but when i look back on ffxi things like sky, dynamis, znm, hnm, sea,... etc... these were all creative farms and grinds. More often than not it wasnt even always about the reward or grind itself but about the teamwork and fun/experience towards the goal.

This isnt a quiting thread. Just wondering if im the only one. I dont know how much longer ill be playing at this rate. I like this game but at the same time every new tomes patch just feels like a burden.

I wish i could timetravel back to my ffxi days with mah buddies... good times...

[Nektulos-Tuor]

Wait 3 months and it will be 100x easier.

[Canadane]

Wait 3 months and it will be 100x easier.

I somehow doubt in 3 months we won't be grinding dungeons for 450 currency items per week.

[Lemuel81]

@OP tired of it myself. Sure I could quit and find a new game, I love the game it would be nice to see new features, new ways of collecting gear. All SE does is recycle everything and try to make them shiny but at the end of the day its the same crap.

Wait 3 months and it will be 100x easier.

Did u even read the OP? Has nothing to do with being hard or wanting "easier". Were tired of farming tomes period we have been doing it since 2.0

[ANG3L2701]

@OP tired of it myself. Sure I could quit and find a new game, I love the game it would be nice to see new features, new ways of collecting gear. All SE does is recycle everything and try to make them shiny but at the end of the day its the same crap.



Did u even read the OP? Has nothing to do with being hard or wanting "easier". Were tired of farming tomes period we have been doing it since 2.0

Exactly!!! I couldn't say it any better.

[razielvh]

yup, I am as well.

[Xatsh]

Me and most the players that were in my guild are in the same boat. We are sick of the current endgame treadmill of the same thing over and over and over every 6 months.

I will say I am an old XI player as well and the lack of content variety that is relevant at once time drives me insane. I have never played a mmo more linear then this and that is not a good thing. more or less a choice between spam a hard 8man instance, grind dungeons mindlessly for tokens, or do primals. Primals are the only actual fun thing. Gathering and Crafting design is great but economy is vanity only which I could care less about.

Hunts and Diadem were a decent idea but done horribly. Hunts were in my opinion one of the better things they added in the open world.

I am getting close to being done with the game honestly, just sick of lack of content and the fact your work for the current content getting reset so often. That and most the people I knew all quit already so nothing really holding me here anymore. I do not see the game changing apparently there is a lot of people who enjoy this kind of progression model.

[Cinno]

I actually just got into a discussion with a friend in game about this very thing when I told her i'm not getting any of the lore gear.

The Lore drop rate is small, and the weekly cap just drags it out.

Speaking of dragging it out, the fact that it takes SEVEN WEEKS to get one Lore weapon immediately turns me off from it.. As someone that plays (and gears) multiple classes, it would just take too long for me to even bother with it.

I feel bad for the few players out there that have every class at cap, and gear them all up.. it'll take 91 weeks to get every Lore weapon. That's over two years.

I know it'll be nerfed by then, but.. if that's the case, what's the point in delaying it so much anyway, besides forcing people to keep Midas relevant..

[Canadane]

I know it'll be nerfed by then, but.. if that's the case, what's the point in delaying it so much anyway, besides forcing people to keep Midas relevant..

That's pretty much exactly the point.
There's limited amount of stuff to do, in a completely vertical progression path. The only way to somewhat mitigate this is by placing limits on what a player can earn.
This isn't XI where certain content lasts forever and ever. I would love it if that were the case, but sadly, that probably wouldn't go over well with the large amount of silent casuals that probably don't even know the Lodestone exists.

Also, let me add, thanks for your first post on the lodestone! I'm glad you take issue with this seriously enough to actually speak up.
Hopefully more will do so and we may see some change.

[MaikoRaines]

That's pretty much exactly the point.
There's limited amount of stuff to do, in a completely vertical progression path. The only way to somewhat mitigate this is by placing limits on what a player can earn.
This isn't XI where certain content lasts forever and ever. I would love it if that were the case, but sadly, that probably wouldn't go over well with the large amount of silent casuals that probably don't even know the Lodestone exists.

Also, let me add, thanks for your first post on the lodestone! I'm glad you take issue with this seriously enough to actually speak up.
Hopefully more will do so and we may see some change.

Good ol' Canadane! Have you ever watched that show "Absolutely Fabulous" I recommended to you when we ran that raid awhile back?

XI was a different beast compared to XIV. I get where a lot of people are not happy with always hitting the endgame ceiling as well. I feel it too.

What I've been doing in between is finding things to do in the meantime. I do pace myself.

Recently I took up the Manderville sidestory and I am laughing my collective ass off.

I was able to move my FC into a large house - which proved to be big and void of life with just three of us - so I promoted the FC for other members to join our like minded, laid back style - and I've been privileged to of made friends in the process as our FC did get a small amount of newcomers. We're looking to keep member count small so everyone can interact with one another. There's still some room for a couple of wayward souls =p

I took up crafting - I like/hate it. I ended up specializing LTW and that's been a decent way to make money in game but alas, my gear still needs major improvement despite my over melding. (Need a new Awl... that is expensive to make/buy 0_0) I'm working on a Blacksmith and I am considering adding mining for my 2nd gathering class.

I took up religion (rolled a WHM) and I was able to heal my first Void Ark run - I felt I did pretty good.

I want to do BizEx/RavanaEx farming for the weapons and a bird. Too many people want to cut Ravana down without taking the adds which is new to me. I've done multiple runs where the adds got cleaved down.

Given my mindset, I want the new SephEX weapons, but no one will take me because I've never run it before - so I'll assume much later I'll run it in some months down the road.

Anima weapon - still a struggle to get the unidentified items needed. No one's running Alex regular anymore so I find myself having to make nice with Beast tribes.

The new tomestone caps.. 230 gear is nice.. but I'm not going to push myself hard for it. Slowly but surely I'll get to it as I clear my weekly dose of Alexander Midas runs. I'll be as content with 220 gear that's crafted (another thing I can't afford...)

There's other things... but it's too long to list. I just don't push myself. I find new avenues and have fun doing them =)