When are we supposed to stop fighting?

[Acelyn]

One thing that's bothered me since beating the story is the whole we need to suffer to learn and live angle.

Or how the last dungeon and meteon pushed that things got too good and people just gave up.

Our whole deal is fighting to solve issues and make things better, we've traveled through time, space and reality to make things better, to win, to keep marching toward a world where things are better and we're not needed, one where no one needs to fight.

So doesn't that mean our endgame would lead to annihilation?

Just irks me that's what they came up with, the whole point is to fight, even now in pandemonium we're battling away and everything we do leads to people prospering in some way, just look at the world itself since arr, its much better since we stepped off the cart. Like, at this point if the wol just said eff it, wouldn't that be fine? And honestly preferred.

[Absimiliard]

The fighting never stops.

[vehere]

Miss Venat's Wild Ride Never Ends

[KageTokage]

It's striving for perfection that caused multiple civilizations to die out.

I don't think that's really a risk for the forseeable future of Etheriys given the sheer number of divisions that still exist amidst mankind, and we all know too well how poorly attempts at worldwide unity ended from both the Allagan and Garlean empires.

[RyuDragnier]

To be mortal is to know conflict. To stop conflict requires people to stop being people, at which point you're just another mindless thrall. Thus, our journey, our fight, like the wind, is eternal.

[Hasrat]

Can't stop fighting or we'd have time to realize the world will carry on just fine without us, one way or another.

[WhiteArchmage]

Because it's an MMO with an on-going story based around battle classes... never.

Taking into consideration the hinted motivations of the WoL? When we're no longer needed, but there will always be conflict in the world, there will always be stronger people taking advantage of the weaker, and where the WoL learns of it, they'll be there.

[Knot_D]

No fighting means you're ended up like third world at The Dead Ends... Everything will become boring.

[Lyth]

And here I thought that this was going to be a meta-commentary on the state of the forums.

Know this, my children. There is more ugliness than beauty in this world.
To live is to suffer. To drink of calamity and drown in anguish. To toil and be tested, always and ever.
'Tis a perilous path you walk. Death lurks in the dark, and is the sole promise that awaits at journey's end.
You will tremble with terror. You will weep tears of anger and despair...
...But do not avert your eyes. See your life for what it is.
Then will you see how the hardships make you strong.
Every doubt reforged as scales for your armor.
Every agony to temper your blade.

You can't get rid of adversity, but that shouldn't stop you from living your life to its potential. Stoicism and Fatalism aren't quite the same thing.

[Yuella]

if there's no fighting, there's no more expansion to play