What this game needs is a bigger reason to do the "work." My enjoyment of the game has honestly gone way up over the past couple of months, and really the only difference was that a group of us in my FC started a "busy adults weekly content static." We're staying out of savage, but we're all working toward beating the primals that were just way too difficult in PUGs. Took has five weeks (two months considering we missed a few weeks) to beat Thordan Ex. Just having that static to look forward to gives much more purpose to grinding out those tomes.

I've said repeatedly that this game's biggest problem is having an endgame scene that's out of touch with how the rest of the game is designed. If SE made true endgame more accessible to people who didn't have statics then grinding tomes would make much more sense in the "day in the life of" an Eorzean.