Every MMO should have a long term goal, remember the relic weapons in XI, just a few had em, those were upgradable and best weapons out there, but those were hard to get, right now we dont have too many ways to get the seals and items so everything becomes spam fest, so yeah they need to look at that first, CoP was a good way to get good items, maybe they can take that as base and do something really original in XIV, i feel that AF gear was easy to get doing just a couple of quest and for AF weapons or relics there should be something more challenging, so what im saying is that getting a good ring after all those quest was good enough but wasnt enough for having the best weapon in the game.