I guess it's time

[RiceisNice]

It's not about Gear or Items themselves. It's the cycle the Game has.

Square Enix (The Developement Team) spoke about, that A Realm Reborn is the foundation of upcoming Expansions. These Expansions build on the Foundation, "Adding more Systems and Content".
The Truth is simple, nothing has changed as the Thread Creator said it, Heavensward is just a little modification of A Realm Reborn, going the same routine.

IMO this really shouldn't be the case. Each expansion should be a new foundation that is added on top of the previous one. There's so very little you can do if they all use the previous expansion as the foundation to build upon that; it leaves much to be desired in regards to content implementation, and especially for setting up new content in the upcoming patch cycles.

2.0 they had to redo the gameplay entirely, while adding elements like jumping, companions, the like. That's worked out very well, the world becomes a bit more fleshed out. 3.0 brought in flying, which allowed them to make the new areas as big as they are now, but the problem comes with it is that it's mostly fluff at this point because there's really no reason to be in the open world; not taking advantage of the wide open world and flying.

If their expansion is just going to add on top of what the previous installation did, how is that any different from a patch? They've already added an entirely new job and pvp modes within each patch cycle, yet I feel that designs like FC crafting and MCH come nowhere close to as polished or in-depth as say the original frontlines or NIN.

[Cakekizyy]

I hope formula stays the same.

[Iromi]

You see, Claymore65, people have been asking for those things and more for years. They continue to get ignored and we are just getting the same patch cycle over and over.

All I was hoping for was a change in the current meta. Been wanting force pop tier NM with FC (Can you imagine..this game is nearly 3 years old, with 0 content for FC) where you like, farm pop items, use them to pop specific NM that give good drops..which leads me to my next part.

Like Mwynn and RiceisNice said, they said they will be adding new content, systems and entirely new stuff. When 3.0 launched it was nothing but 2.0 with a new skin. They focused on the leveling dungeons way more then the end game content and the like.

The interesting stats, been waiting for the stuff we were promised would come back on Alpha forums in 2013, things like enmity +5, refresh +10, store TP+ (if you google 1.0 relic stats, youll see) and I have been patiently waiting and been subbed from launch in 2010 till now. I feel like I've been led on for years waiting only to get told "no" to everything that was promised in a huge list in the 2013 alpha. Truly a disappointment what has become of things..but what more can we do but just stop playing Can't hold on forever and wait for changes that will undoubtedly never come...

[OliviaJ]

I have a mountain of things to do. There is never a time when I log in and find myself with nothing to do and I've been playing for a couple years now. Beast tribe quests, crafting and the gathering for it, new content that I've barely scratched, etc. Hell I haven't even had time to run dailies beyond mining a map out which takes all of 2-3 minutes. The pace of the content fits perfectly for some of us but I do understand that there are some players that are laser focused on just a few things and yes, those things get boring quickly. If you play the game in it's full glory I can't see how anyone would ever run out of content.

Man, even spent an hour and a half the other night doing nothing but socializing with a FC who was complaining that I sniped one of the lots during last patch and ruined what was going to be a monopoly of their FC members in this little cul de sac. They wanted me to join them! It was great doing nothing but chatting and showing off housing ideas.

To the point the game isn't geared for every player but those of us who enjoy it for what it is are staying put. I don't want to see the formula change.

[Lulu89]

Make friends.... Help yore guild/FC grow and help new players LV and gear up. Feed the MB and make some Gil why lower the MB over all. Do learning plays for raids and not just think about one self.... Go work on GS crap. No one can run out of thing to do if your helping and not just carding for your self. It a MMO befor a RPG.. Play and help others to make the game a better place for all. I run a big guild and I'm always crafting, clear boss and Dungens for members.. Doing learning run 2-3 days a week. And I'm been here from 1.0beta as well, be a leader and help new players!

That's all.

[Iromi]

I don't know who that was directed at, Lulu89, but my bf and I run our own fc with folks who've been with us since XI days and help them and others all the time. We also run a linkshell and help people quite a lot. As I said we've literally done everything in the game...

It still does not fix all that stuff I mentioned above. :/. In fact I was suggesting they put in actual FC focused content. Anyway its not about running out of content, I already mentioned the issues and can't repeat myself and bore everyone heh.

[Seraphix2407]

Ff11 was more social than this game. In all forms too; rp, fights and gather people together. How? Content it has, this game has content issues which lead to less difference on gear ot Event itself.

[RobbieH]

we want more content that will last us more than 1-2 weeks out of a 3 month wait

Yes we do.

End-game raiding lasts for like 1-2 months if you raid it (depending on group skill) and want to be full raid tier BiS geared, by the time the next content patch hits there's another 3 months wait before next raid tier hits so that's a 4 months wait, unless people want to gear another Job it could take another two months to get Chest piece with tokens, which would translate in being very unlucky with the drops.

Basically raiding atm is, 2 Months to gear up (and 4 months of wait for next tier), only to be completely useless once new tier comes.

I not only would like gear sets for example i'd also like gear to last longer and be harder to obtain.

4.0 should arrive in one Year, i want to see how this game is doing before the expansion comes at the rate things are going.

[vp_cmc]

I can't take a break for more than 45 days, because I will lose my house. And I don't want to lose my house.

My endgame is:
0. patch came out
1. spend fortune on melds into new crafter and gatherer gear
2. return that fortune using geared crafters and gatherers
3. new patch came out, goto 0

[SaitoHikari]

At the risk of sounding like a broken record... I would really suggest taking a break.

It's not to be mean, but among all these 'Change or RIOT' threads on the forum lately, being in an echo chamber of negativity can really warp your perception of the actual state of the game.

Trust me, I say this as a moderator of another game that is in a FAR worse state than this game, and I ask myself on a daily basis exactly how much of the fault lies with the development team or the community hell-bent on a self-fulfilling prophecy. I actually took a 2 month break from that game and returned to find out things weren't nearly as bad as I had been led to believe. It was then that I realized that I had suffered from burnout accumulated over 3 years.