Only 2/5 Endgame content currently viable, why?

[Teuciont]

At the moment, there's 5(from what I can see) high level activities in game. Only 2 of these 5 are actually worth doing. Why?

HNMs
Faction NMs
Darkhold
Ifrit
Strongholds

5 endgame venues possible, but only 2 are viable? Gear from HNM/Faction NMs and Darkhold for the most part is completely trash compared to Ifrit weapons, Strongholds and crafted gear. Is it really that hard to change the stats on gear from the other 3? This would give much more to do for those who have hit the level cap, especially those, like myself, who have just recently hit 50.

So please SE, though it might be too late for 1.20, can you make it happen for 1.21? Until 2.0, you need as much content as you can, phasing content out when there's not enough to phase it out with isn't going to keep people entertained. I've never gotten to fight HNMs or Faction NMs due to the fact that it's a waste of effort. And DD isn't worth the effort and the difficulty a new LS would face.

[TheVedis]

welcome to MMOs

take certain other ones with 20+ endgame dungeons

and still only 1 is viable for the best gear at any given time really...because thats just how it is

they will always release something with better gear making old gear obsolete just to entice people to want to do the new content that much more

[yukikaze_yanagi]

also, this isn't endgame but content 50. Sure, it sound the same thing, but it isn't. Even dzemael is never been "endgame", but "leveling dungeon"

[Hanemakikaze]

Same reason in every mmo, content progresses as does gear. Certain areas become pointless or less needed while newer content more active because of the progressing gear.

[Meow_Zedong]

ITT: OP thinks gear is the only reason to do content.

[Quesse]

The reason why gear sucks is because it isn't rare enough. Anyone can get any gear in this game - besides some ridiculous 3x materia pieces.

And part of the reason for that is everything is R/EX and THAT is due to trying to circumvent the RMT.

I feel like half the crap things that are done in this game are due to SE worrying about RMT (server lag due to encrypting every input and sending back to the server for verification, for instance). Fatigue was RMT, Gathering Fatigue still because of RMT, Market Wards because of RMT.... you can link alot of the crappy decisions in this game back to that.

[Madruk]

ITT: OP thinks gear is the only reason to do content.

You mean there's something else?

[Claire_Pendragon]

welcome to MMOs

take certain other ones with 20+ endgame dungeons

and still only 1 is viable for the best gear at any given time really...because thats just how it is

they will always release something with better gear making old gear obsolete just to entice people to want to do the new content that much more

Saying "Deal with it" doesn't help fix anything.
people continue to think there is only one way to have things done for MMOs.
There are alternatives, and ways to fix a LARGE number of problems that are in every MMO.

The only REAL reason an MMO doesn't take the steps, is from the lack of resources into doing it.
aka, whats the easy way out, rather than fix things from the ground up.

FFXIV is sorta doing this, but only going so far.

What was suggested is a decent alternative, considering when the Lv is raised, all of this content will be out dated.
And so it wont matter what is "Leveling dungeon" gear or not.

[Lucifer]

You can ignore every useless post in this thread and read mine.

You don't require good gear in order to kill Ifrit.

Why SE hasn't focused on gear requirements, you already know the answer to that. Gear checks should be mandatory.

[Xatsh]

SE is making every mistake western developers done with negating content is the simple answer. They created their own lack of content atm.