Why can't it always be like this?

[Cabalabob]

No capped tomes, job specific gear coming from job specific content, no weekly lockout fights.

Feels nice to be able to gear as many jobs as I want and do content at my own pace. Why can't it always be like this? I get that there's people who burn through content in days and have nothing left to do, but lockouts and caps don't stop that, they just cap everything Day 1 and have nothing to do til reset.

[Averax]

You don't have to get the best gear possible for every job. The ilvl 310 gear will always be easy to get and you'll be able to get it very quickly on multiple jobs. The capped tomestones are harder to get/farm because that gear is meant for higher end content.

[Arutan]

If there was no cap on the latest gear people would be full geared for the release of raids and just burn through.

[Anzaman]

I actually find myself to be a bit bored at the moment, tbh.

There's no "list" to go through, so I spend most of the time wondering what I should do. Having weekly tomestones, daily beast-tribes and so on creates that list for me and I'll play through it.

[Skivvy]

If there was no cap on the latest gear people would be full geared for the release of raids and just burn through.

Why does it matter if someone else wants to rush to get the best gear, so that they can enjoy the content they like, and be as geared as they like? This game is designed so that no one can pull far ahead. As it is, a large number of people are bored with the game as all they do is reach their weekly cap, and then go do something else until the next week.

Opening up a free farm for gear would allow people to branch out and try other jobs as they no longer are stuck taking several months just to gear their first 2 main jobs. Despite the panic people like to spread around here, I highly doubt most people would be rushing to max and gear all jobs within a month.

Anyway, I love the openness at the moment. Also wish it would continue as it really does open up a lot more opportunity for the players.

[Mikhaill]

I actually find myself to be a bit bored at the moment, tbh.

There's no "list" to go through, so I spend most of the time wondering what I should do. Having weekly tomestones, daily beast-tribes and so on creates that list for me and I'll play through it.

You only have 70 AST. Do your other 60 jobs and leveling them to 70 and gear those?
I have a hard time seeing why you're bored...

I like this too, I hate weekly stuff and it's not fun to play once a week. :/

[Ayrie]

Tome caps are meant to extend the life of content by placing real barriers in the way of progress. This means that to beat 8-man Savage X, players must have ilvl Y, and that will take them Z weeks to accomplish. Now couple that on top of getting 1 drop a week, possibly, it will take D weeks to truly get the "best gear" available in that content.

The reason they care at the speed of which you hit these caps is because: if you cap everything you need to do for the next 6 months in 3 weeks... they run the risk of losing 5 months of your subscription.

If they keep you around for 3-4 months, there is a very high chance that you'll stick around the full 6 because of "working towards" being ready for the next big dungeon.

That the answer you were looking for?

[Skivvy]

Tome caps are meant to extend the life of content by placing real barriers in the way of progress. This means that to beat 8-man Savage X, players must have ilvl Y, and that will take them Z weeks to accomplish. Now couple that on top of getting 1 drop a week, possibly, it will take D weeks to truly get the "best gear" available in that content.

The reason they care at the speed of which you hit these caps is because: if you cap everything you need to do for the next 6 months in 3 weeks... they run the risk of losing 5 months of your subscription.

If they keep you around for 3-4 months, there is a very high chance that you'll stick around the full 6 because of "working towards" being ready for the next big dungeon.

That the answer you were looking for?

Everyone seems to think that this game is full of mainly raiders. I'm struggling to find it right this moment, but awhile back SE had released numbers showing how many people actually have cleared content. The top raids had an embarrassingly small number of people who had actually cleared it. So why are we using them to defend having these restrictions?

Removing the tomes cap will help "normal" players far more than anything else. It opens up the chance to try out a new job, and have it properly geared so you can get a good feel of it vs. finally getting around to gearing it just before a new Tome is released and you get to start all over.

[Shurrikhan]

Why does it matter if someone else wants to rush to get the best gear, so that they can enjoy the content they like, and be as geared as they like? This game is designed so that no one can pull far ahead. As it is, a large number of people are bored with the game as all they do is reach their weekly cap, and then go do something else until the next week.

Consider it like hardcore leveling with periodic competitive periods for fair competition.

With it, it means something to clear on week 1 vs. 2 vs. 3, etc.

Without it, it's a gamble between the fight being mechanically driven or gear driven, and alloting one's time, at the cost of all potentially neglectable sleep, accordingly.

[Ayrie]

This isn't about raider vs non-raider. This is about Square making another withdrawal of 15 dollars from your pocket.

The function of the gear is pointless, the rate of acquisition is what keeps you at your chair week-to-week, capping tomes, getting better for whatever reason you personally may have.

The point remains: if you accomplish all of those goals in 1 month, Square is likely to miss $75 over the next 5 when you cancel your sub because you've reached your goals and have nothing to do until next release.