Quote Originally Posted by ElciaDeiLinus View Post
The thing I don't understand is why all the players with very high skill expectations haven't done what such players do in every other game- join an FC dedicated to high end content. I've never raided heroic content or high M+ in WoW with people outside my guilds, and I'm pretty midcore- a hardcore player with high expectations really should save themselves the stress by being part of a top end FC instead of pugging savage+ content.
In ffxi we had a static in our ls, the same group of us for nearly a decade, ran content multiple times a week, building relics and mythics, farming NMs and BCNMs for rare loot, popping sky gods, etc. But there is a big difference between ffxiv and other mmos. In ffxiv, the content comes out, you clear it, maybe do it a few other times for drops and then take a 2 month break until the next patch drops, and you repeat.

ffxiv simply cannot sustain this sort of guild type because there is not enough content of any kind that takes actual dedication for the long term. There are no long term goals. This game simply has nothing to offer the real hardcore raid guilds, which is why they are so few and far between in ffxiv and pugging is king. Often these groups who raid together, also raid together in other games that have those long term goals, that takes more dedication that a week or two, 4 times a year.