Tomestone Lockout

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

As someone who likes a lot of those Anabaseios weapon glams, being told that I can basically get 1 blade a week sucks ass and it's obviously done to keep people around for 4 weeks aka 1 month aka 15 dollars of subtime. They won't remove the cap until we're so close to Dawntrail that most people will just stay subbed for that. It's a very cynical model but it obviously works for them.
I agree with you though, OP. In a perfect world where the video game model isn't dictated by appeasing greasy fat greedy shareholders who demand INFINITE UNENDING GROWTH, we'd just have this content unlocked so we could enjoy the game and grind to our heart's content in Yoshi P's maze. Instead the game forces you to slow to its preferred glacial pace and thinks you'll stay subscribed for that. Or, more realistically, they just hold your house that you painstakingly, lovingly, decorated hostage.

It's why when I bring up adding more events in the downtime and people shoot it down saying they don't want "manipulative events designed to keep them playing" in the game, I just laugh in their faces and stop talking to them. The game's already full of that crap.

You can get one weapon a week in savage.

[Avoidy]

You can get one weapon a week in savage.

Fair, the arbitrary limit still sucks though, considering there's about to be nothing to do/look forward to until summer.

[Rongway]

You can get one weapon a week in savage.

You "can". It's unrealistic. The expected value is something like (1/19)(1)+(7/19)(0)+(11/19)(1/8)+1/8 weapon each week, which adds up to an expected value of 1 weapon every 4 weeks. This assumes that nobody already has the weapon for their job, that everyone will Need on any weapon they can, and that everyone will Greed on any weapon that they cannot Need. In practice this value will be slightly higher because some people will have the weapon already and some will be uninterested in off-job weapons; however it is still far less than 1 weapon a week.

[JaneFoster]

You're not supposed to get max level gear on everything. 650 is plenty for anything that's not a savage, and its completely unrealistic to be able to play every single job well enough to do savage with them.

Why is it wrong to want 660 tomestone sets for multiple jobs. I get that 650 is "enough" to clear everything but savage but that doesn't mean that is how I want to gear my character and I bet I am not alone in that. I don't do savage but I still want the full set of tomestone gear for my healers, tank, phys dps and caster. It just takes far too long to get there. That's the point. And its not like there is any meaningful horizontal progress to choose from as an alternative that just wanting to max my tome gear.