Quote Originally Posted by Minarisweet View Post
I think you would have to criticize the entire mmorpg genre... every mmorpg that has had a few expansions are mostly endgame focused.

I totally agree with your point but sadly the reality is mmos main focus is endgame content... so even if people do all kinda content here the devs are still gonna focus the balancing around savage and ultimates.
I think it wasn't this bad back then, even I a while back complained about this in relation to boss mechanics and job design, so many things became a lot more boring for no reason other than this idea that nothing outside of end raiding matters. Yoshida never told us to go heal Alex if we were bored back then, because healing dungeons and alliance raids was fun too.
Can't comment in relation to consumables though since I don't craft.