Quote Originally Posted by bswpayton View Post
Not exactly tho like you said you dont like the grind, but ok lets say that the end of your content journey is the 24 man raids and the current ex dungeons. For both of these you can easily get away with lore gear with a few extra pieces with a higher item level.

Lore is unlimited right now so you can have all you jobs inbetween 240 to 250 range you could do all the content that you said you enjoyed like that. So then what for your playstyle not venturing out into other content if all your jobs are ilvl 240 - 250 what else are you going to do in game. I dont no this to be the case but judging from how you say you have unsubbed etc then Id gather nothing really until stormblood, just because shire has a higher ilvl doesn't mean that if you max all your jobs out in it that if you stay on a certain level of content that you would stay subbed any longer than you normally would.
Fair questions

I think my displeasure comes from a few sources within the game, and they all feed off of each other and have landed me where I am now. And also, I can only speak for myself of course. I know plenty of people are completely content with the game, I'm happy for them! So take this all with a grain of salt.

My (very condensed) transition over the last few years has been:

-I want to play a few jobs! (WHM, BRD, BLM), and I definitely spent a lot of time gearing the first two jobs
-After a few major patches hit, and full gear sets were constantly needing to be replaced, this is when the monotony started kicking in
-Got tired of running the same dungeons and raids over and over again for months at a time
-Dropped down to only a single job because I just couldn't do the long grind for all the other jobs any longer
-Found other jobs I was interested in, but decided not to pursue because I decided I did not want to spend the next several months gearing jobs only to be hit with a new patch & tomes and have to start fresh.
-Stopped doing dailies on my WHM because what was the point? I could get by on whatever gear I had.
-Boredom continues since I've lost the will to battle the gear treadmill, which then killed my desire to try new jobs, etc.
-Unsub

There we go! And really not trying to be dramatic, that's just how it's gone for me. Honestly, this probably just isn't the game for me anymore. I enjoyed it when it first came out, and I still really want to enjoy it, but there are a ton of little things like this that have pushed me to the point where I only sub now and then.

And I think I went off topic to your question Going back to that, again, I really do like gear progression. Even as a casual. As I mentioned earlier, I really do try to gear & play my jobs to the best I can, and when I'm hit with caps and (IMO, unecessary) delays, it's just a bit disheartening to me. Do I NEED max Ilvl? Of course not. But no one really does.

For me personally, removing the caps would actually make me excited to try leveling new jobs. i have a bunch that I would like to try out, but I just don't want to deal with gearing it in the current set-up. I'd be spending far more time in game levleing those jobs and working on the gear.