How do you keep playing?

[Eeshen]

I'm a pretty new player, only have played for a bit more than 4mths.
However, after reaching 70 on my warrior and raiding with a static twice a week, I really don't have any reason to log in.

My miner is 70, I'm not really into crafting, nor do I want to level another job.

I'm just wondering what people do to keep themselves coming back to the game. This is not a "put down" on FF14, I really want to stay ( I love the warrior job, dungeons and some of the savages), but there is really no need for me to be running dungeons, so I'm at a loss on what else to do.

My only other enjoyment is PvP....but those que times !!

Thanks

[Flower]

I'm biased, I've been playing 8+ years. Honestly imho, if you can't find anything yoiu enjoy about the game outside of the weekly dungeon grinds then maybe this isn't your type of game.

[LaylaTsarra]

Why would you only want to level one job? Seriously tanking isn't the only job in this game. You might find that you might enjoy healing or a dps role.

[Keridwyn]

I've been changing up what I'm doing.

Sometimes I'll focus on trying to get one of the older ARR sightseeing vistas (some of those can take forever) or I'll go gather a bunch of something to sell on the MB. I'll see if I can't join a Hunt train or take a chance at trying to spawn one of the S Rank hunts (I even succeeded once!). I'll shuffle things around in my apartment trying to get the room set up just right. Every once and a while I'll spend some time racing my chocobo or playing a couple games of triple triad.

I haven't really been in the mood for dungeons/raids the like lately so it's been interesting trying to find other ways to entertain myself.

[Dzian]

In all honesty the only reason I still play is for a few friends.

It's been that was for a long time. The game itself isn't great honestly every patch is basically more of the same. There no accomplishment in gear or rewards the treadmill is to fast to let anything feel special or worthwhile and it's all just rather repetive and monotonous..

Yet somehow still manage to have a laugh goofing off with the few friends that are left and haven't quit. And they're basically the only reason in pay my sub.

The older ones at least some I've been friends with since 1999.

[Vidu]

May I ask why you dont want to level another job? One of the appeals of this game is that you can level mutliple jobs after all! You might actually happen to enjoy one of them on occassion - when I first started playing more than 4 years ago I couldnt imagine playing anything but my paladin - and I didnt for the first couple of months. Today I really enjoy switching between the tanks, my scholar, my bard and my redmage - and I at least enjoyed doing all of the job-questlines.

Besides that... the game offers several more or less grindy things to keep you busy:
- Beast Tribes - offering unique questlines, pets, mounts and vendors (mainly for dyes and some crafting products)
- Old Relic-Quests - while not relevant progression-wise anymore, you might wanna do them if you like the looks of the weapon. At least ARR-WAR-relics look pretty cool
- Primal-Mount farming - for ponies, birds and now dogs!
- Crafting/Gathering - even though you mentioned you're not into it, you also asked how "we" are keeping busy... well, I do so by crafting. You could always just level up CUL and a few classes for cross-class-skills and start providing food for your static!
- PvP - yes, you mentioned that and yes, queuetimes can be aweful, but just have the game running in the background while doing something else (reading a book, playing a game on a handheld... personally, I'm cross stitching)
- Maps - my FC is doing map-parties ever so often! Mainly because we need to get them out of our inventories, finally... keeps you busy for a whole evening and with voice chat it is actually entertaining
- Housing and Gardening - granted, not available to everyone, but I can spend a lot of time changing decoration or planning out what to crossbreed next!
- Palace of the Dead - all the way to 200! You could try to solo it - but you could also form a second, mini-static of 4 people to get there! Still challenge enough!
- Re-running Alexander and Coil-Raids - obviously synched and maybe even ilvl-synched. That would require you to find people who'd enjoy the challenge of those fights and arent excatly in for the rewards ofc.

...and an aweful lot of little things like: Khloes WT book, the fashion report, Triple Triad, finding the right glamour, farming for a certain piece of gear or a minion from a dungeon, weekly turn ins for Naago and Zhloe...
Sometimes I play more, sometimes I play less - depending on my mood, basically.
But I feel the worst thing people can do is limit themself by not exploring the options this game is offering - specially in regards to leveling different classes. Getting my monk and dragoon up to 50 back in ARR helped me a lot to become a better tank because I understood the needs of those jobs better. Leveling a healer helped me feeling more comfortable with my HP being closer to 40% than 80% for most of the time. And I ended up actually enjoying bard!
So... if you want to play the game but dont know what to do... my best advice would be to either try out a different job/role or peak your head into crafting!

[Skivvy]

As someone who has been in your place plenty of times, I think that can be a pretty normal feeling. Plenty of people tend to only resub with new patches, clear some things, then go back on a break. I've personally been here since launch, but have also taken some really lengthy breaks. This game can just get so damn stale/repetitive at times.

Having a fun group to talk to/play with can make a huge difference in your wanting to play a game (at least for me). Also, as others said, may want to try branching out with testing the waters of other classes/jobs. I normally hate that type of reply as people will naturally gravitate towards what they have an interest in, but sometimes you CAN find things you find enjoyable that you'd not expect.

Best of luck finding something to spark your interest here

[Riardon]

There are really tons of stuff to do.
PvP, achievement prizes, sightseeing, crafting for housing, making gils, raiding, tomestones, gearing and playing more than 1 main jobs, Gold Saucer MGP farm and prize hunting, crafting/gathering/fishing logs, lvl Chocobo to rank 20, lvl many or all jobs to 70, Hunting, Extreme Primal farming for mounts, Artifact Weapons etc.
I'm subbed and actively playing almost every day since 2.0 launched and I'm still doing things I've never done before.
There is a lot of content and by the time you do 1 of these a new patch is out bringing more things.

[Meghann]

I play for a few months and then take a break until a new patch is released, but mostly ATM I am loving the hunts so that keeps me interested, maybe you should try another role?

[Flower]

I used to feel that way about 2.0 after it's release. I know where you're coming from. Just keep in mind no other mmo will be any different. The only reason other games are slower at it is because they're lazy. I have personally gotten used to the treadmill and now I find value in other things, like rare glamour, crafting, gold saucer, all of the side content like hunts. Lots of cool and hard to get items to give you that feeling back.