I achieved my 2.0 goals

**DawgPilez** · 08-12-2016 07:01 AM

Hello everyone. I'm just a humble Pre.HW player. I didn't want to get HW until I did next to everything in 2.0. I accomplished that goal yesterday hitting lvl 50 on all the available jobs, finishing all of the class and job quests and doing all of the group content up to EX Ramuh, Shiva, and Coil (can't get a group in DF and couldn't coordinate with fc).

I am content and very burnt out. I'm happy to reach this game. The game stopped being fun when I realized that so few of the classes felt fun, crafting was only rewarding in a system that helps itself, and harvesting wasn't very useful anything other than being self sufficient in the crafting system. Yup, I made a lot of money, but I didn't really use it for anything other than bypassing grinding walls and getting HQ mats that I was too lazy to farm myself. Sometime after leveling my 3rd dps class I realized how repetitive this game is and how it lacks any fun value below lvl 50 and even at the higher end, it still feels like a solo game I'm playing with others that are running scripts. I don't mean using programs, I mean we are suppose to know our class to the point that we are on autopilot and no one is communicating.

It's just sad, but I do enjoy this game. I want to come back, but only when I can find a class that I'd like to be. I love Monk, love Whm, and love WAR, but it became so monotonous playing either of them and their alternative jobs while the pressure put upon healing and tank jobs pretty high. I can't recall having fun with this game after everything became familiar and monotonous. The world is beautiful, but you rarely can interact with it when 90% of the time you are in dungeons or doing unfulfilling fates at set places.

Action combat has me sold and more pvp or versus company/world elements. This game lacks in that and makes me feel very disconnected from the bustling world. Idk what it is (probably the lack of difficulty), but FFXIV isn't as fulfilling or memorable as FFXI. I don't want them to be the same game, but dang I've accomplished a decent feat and feel it pales in comparison to unlocking BLU for the first time on my first try in FFXI or challenging the lvl 75 quest. Running to Jeuno for the first time was more rewarding that FFXIV and I think it's related to the relative ease in acquiring gear and money in this game, the lack of challenging world content, the power of the character, and the lack of community communication outside of FC chat.

This post wasn't supposed to descend like this and this isn't a "I'm piecing out" thread. I wanted to showcase an achievement in my mind for a game genre I never seem to complete. 2.0 content is dead, so me getting a near full set of 130 gear, level capping all of my roles, and seeing the majority of the original game content is enough for me. I look forward to seeing how this game evolves. I don't perceive it will be any different than what it is now. I look forward to returning and finding the fun again. I'll probably skip HW to see what new classes come in. Until then, my account will be banned from posting as my sub ends today.

I return to being a lurker.

**Zigabar** · 08-12-2016 07:07 AM

I thought this was going to be a good feels post.

**Kitano123** · 08-12-2016 07:22 AM

So the end-game that you haven't even participated in is boring and monotonous....mkay.

**Mugiawara** · 08-12-2016 07:24 AM

Originally Posted by Kitano123

So the end-game that you haven't even participated in is boring and monotonous....mkay.

He's not going to like it if he felt the classes are boring...Plus end-game is you doing the same things you've
been doing since you started, which is gear treadmilling. If he don't feel like it's fun now, then he probably won't later.

**Kitano123** · 08-12-2016 07:31 AM

Originally Posted by Mugiawara

He's not going to like it if he felt the classes are boring...Plus end-game is you doing the same things you've
been doing since you started, which is gear treadmilling. If he don't feel like it's fun now, then he probably won't later.

He didn't say the classes where boring he said the opposite.

He hasn't done any end-game content.

Maybe you need to re-read the OP.

**FunkyBunch** · 08-12-2016 07:41 AM

Originally Posted by DawgPilez

Hello everyone. I'm just a humble Pre.HW player. I didn't want to get HW until I did next to everything in 2.0. I accomplished that goal yesterday hitting lvl 50 on all the available jobs, finishing all of the class and job quests and doing all of the group content up to EX Ramuh, Shiva, and Coil (can't get a group in DF and couldn't coordinate with fc).
I return to being a lurker.

Congrats on finishing all Pre HW stuff.
That being said, if you haven't played the classes after level 50, you haven't played the classes really at all. They all have a completely different feel (well minus maybe NIN). BLM is especially different.
I feel like you handicapped yourself quite a bit by doing ALL of the 2.XX stuff and not even seeing what HW brought to the table. It was a completely different game for me.

**Norleas** · 08-12-2016 07:49 AM

Did you try pvp though? Check and mate.

**Niwashi** · 08-12-2016 08:04 AM

Originally Posted by Kitano123

He hasn't done any end-game content.

He hasn't done any of Heavensward's end-game content, but he's done nearly all of ARR's end-game content. If he ended up not liking the original game, the expansion is unlikely to change that, certainly not by providing more of the same at a higher level.

It's a pity. I'm in the process of completing all the ARR stuff myself, but I'm still enjoying it. Of course, it's nowhere near as fun as the earliest few levels when first starting the game, but I've never known any game where the endgame can match up to the fun of the beginning.

**Mugiawara** · 08-12-2016 08:31 AM

Originally Posted by Kitano123

He didn't say the classes where boring he said the opposite.

He hasn't done any end-game content.

Maybe you need to re-read the OP.

I want to come back, but only when I can find a class that I'd like to be. I love Monk, love Whm, and love WAR, but it became so monotonous playing either of them and their alternative jobs while the pressure put upon healing and tank jobs pretty high. I can't recall having fun with this game after everything became familiar and monotonous.

Now he finds them boring if I'm understanding correctly. If he can't find em fun now.
But my point still stands, if he's not really enjoying the beginning, he's not going to really enjoy HW.
Though he might find a bit more fun if he DID get some of the jobs to 60...still, he'd still be doing the same stuff.

**Ksenia** · 08-12-2016 08:45 AM

You said so yourself, OP. You aren't bored, you are burnt out. All MMO's burn you out. I left the entire scene for a year, played Fallout 4 and some Civ 5. Fallout 4 players will know what /tgm is and yea, I abused the hell out of it. /player.setlevel 80? Suuure, why not.

You just need to get clear of MMO's for a while, OP. No point in hating on this one, they are all treadmills. You just don't see it until you get clear of it. Once you do you can even appreciate it a little more. They have the ultimate cheat button. It's called Logout.

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