Alienation of Dedicated and Skilled players

[MagiusNecros]

I kinda get where you're coming from when I consider running Mhach City 15 times has not rewarded me with a caster body drop even once. 30 hours of my life wasted with no reward. And it's my second week in and it still hasn't dropped.

I must agree though that we need more then these cookie cutter stats that only buff your main attack stat or have very menial reduction on the GCD.

Don't even have stats to buff up your defense more.

[Zojha]

I kinda get where you're coming from when I consider running Mhach City 15 times has not rewarded me with a caster body drop even once. 30 hours of my life wasted with no reward.

Welcome to RNG based rewards.

[Caelum_Dragguell]

I kinda get where you're coming from when I consider running Mhach City 15 times has not rewarded me with a caster body drop even once. 30 hours of my life wasted with no reward. And it's my second week in and it still hasn't dropped.

I must agree though that we need more then these cookie cutter stats that only buff your main attack stat or have very menial reduction on the GCD.

Don't even have stats to buff up your defense more.

Well RNG drops aren't what I'm referring to. That's just bad luck but stuff like that isn't what needs to be changed. the cookie cutter stats however are exactly what I want changed

[MagiusNecros]

Well RNG drops aren't what I'm referring to. That's just bad luck but stuff like that isn't what needs to be changed. the cookie cutter stats however are exactly what I want changed

Well when you look at the stats most classes are focusing on one stat because only one main stat effectively matters. Can you reasonably increase elemental resistance? No. Would it matter? No. Status Immunity? No. Evasion? No. Defense outside of base gear? No. Secondaries that boost attack? Yes.

It's pretty streamlined as opposed to other FF games and RPG's in general.

[YISUG]

I kinda get where you're coming from when I consider running Mhach City 15 times has not rewarded me with a caster body drop even once. 30 hours of my life wasted with no reward. And it's my second week in and it still hasn't dropped.

same here , i think i played it more than 15 times since the patch and ive never seen the drg body drop at all
why cant we have the token systems in the 24 man raids

[WellFooled]

No. He wants the developers to make him feel special for pouring "hours into it".

No one wants to feel their time is wasted. Rather, we want to be rewarded for our spent time. When FFXIV renders everything we've worked for obsolete every few months it feels as though nothing we strive for matters, no goals have lasting benefits for us, so why even set goals? Why strive for anything? Why keep playing?

I agree with the OP, not because I think I'm entitled to something special for having played the game so long (though Veteran rewards were a nice touch, thanks Devs!), but because I have invested in FFXIV and I just want that to mean something.

When I reach a long term goal, like a relic weapon, I want that to mean something. Instead, we literally destroyed our reward when we started the next relic chain. When I spend months collecting enough red scrips to scrap together a set of gear I don't want a patch to come along making that same gear acquirable in a short afternoon.

Vertical progression has some benefits, but those benefits come at the cost of cutting off our legs every other patch.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

I kinda get where you're coming from when I consider running Mhach City 15 times has not rewarded me with a caster body drop even once. 30 hours of my life wasted with no reward. And it's my second week in and it still hasn't dropped.

I must agree though that we need more then these cookie cutter stats that only buff your main attack stat or have very menial reduction on the GCD.

Don't even have stats to buff up your defense more.

Nah on FFXi u spent 1-2 years to get a red mage hat to drop to you. Each run taking a few hours to complete so 30 hours for an item in here is fine with me lol

[Dalvy]

+1 to the OP

There are so many raiders who have quit because of the lack of attention given to ride in 3.0. Truly this is the expac of the crafter/gatherer.

People nowadays just sub for a month after patch, then unsub when it falls back into the droll tomestone/raid token grind. That translates to a sub droop immediately after patch release, which means the player pool gets smaller and queue times for fsrm/old content go up.

I personally would want to see more engaging side activities as we are progressing through the main content. Lets face it--craft/gather is boring and not for everyone, and diadem being a bust proves it.