Gating interesting content behind artificial side leveling

[Stanelis]

if you're arguing Eureka isn't content, idk what to tell you. If we want to continue to break it down piece by piece, Yes, the leveling system is just a time gate to prolong the content and is "useless". But so is any leveling system in any game, if im forced to think of it that way.

to me, your question feels like its poking at the very fundamentals of this game's creation/existence. "why does FFxiv or Eureka exist?". to me that's the same as "why does Savage/Ultimate exist, or lalafells".

I am not smart enough to answer these questions.

It is content, what isn't are the artificial elemental level stuff. Also, as per my topic, I m discussing the elemental level side of eureka, not the whole thing (even if it is tied together). Also, leveling systems aren't necessarily time gates (they can be in older MMORPG, in an era where devloppers though it'd make people sub longer) if they are matched with relevant content and character growth.

Personally I can't understand why anyone does roulettes and I loathe the duty finder. I think the negative effect it's had on the community outweighs any benefits. But that's just my opinion, so I don't make threads insisting that the duty finder has to go,

I'm not saying eureka needs to go, I m saying it needs to be improved. That public dungeon thing is an improvement from what we had before, but that doesn't impact anemos, pyros and pagos.

Yeah the afk-ers are annoying, especially when they all start complaining because no one waited for them to come all the way from town.

So basically you also indicate in your post that there are stuff to be improved. Because people wouldn't be afk if they were hitting for more than 30 to the mobs required to spawn the next fate. And that's why the elemental level system doesn't work in the first place (it would, but if you had less levels in each areas or if each area was bigger).