Endgame gearing in FFXIV

[ForteNightshade]

While I would love if it was faster to gear up alt jobs, having role-based lockouts would be tricky to do while still keeping the current coffer system. Because otherwise I could run the fight as healer, tank, and DPS, get coffers on all three lockouts, and then open all of those coffers on healer to gear up just that one job really quickly.

One simple change I'd love to see, though, is not deducting a chest if you have one person who has already done the fight for the week. One repeat person is not going to wildly unbalance the runs and allow massive gear-grind farming, but would make finding a sub for a static if you're missing someone one night a lot easier to do without making everyone's gear climb even slower.

I've been clamouring for that change for ages now. It's so damn frustrating because you're essentially forced to do "barse" or "fun" parties if you want to partake in Savage outside of your weeklies. And it makes subbing for friends or even just helping people impossible. My personal structure would be:

0-2 - Two Coffers
3-4 - One Coffer
5+ - No Coffers

Unfortunately, this does create a problem where it's optimal to take people who have cleared because you're now rolling against five others instead of seven but I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing. You're trading a potentially quicker filling PF for better loot RNG. I think the larger pool of players available throughout the week will balance things out.

[Packetdancer]

0-2 - Two Coffers
3-4 - One Coffer
5+ - No Coffers

Honestly, I'm even okay with it being 0-1 = two coffers, and having 2-4 already cleared cost you a coffer.

It's just so, so incredibly frustrating when you're missing one person and trying to find a sub. Or if you want to help a friend's static out and don't have a sufficiently-geared raid alt.

[Ivtrix]

Savage loot really should have unlocked this patch.

People wanna gear for ultimate, not everyone raids ultimate the same job they cleared savage on.

[Deejudanne]

the 450 weekly cap on the current highest tomestone gear makes no sense to me considering as you mentioned the game being a 1 character being able to be everything kind of game, sure i guess first 2 weeks are important for raid racers but after that just remove the cap lol, all it does is add fomo and making casuals just give up on gearing up other jobs than 1 job specifically that they are probably even bored to death of but since its the highest geared job they have they feel forced to play it