Weekly Gear Lockouts Kill Gameplay

[ApolloGenX]

As someone who got BiS on every job in Anabaiseios, I don't think the weekly lockout on loot is an issue after the Anabaiseios changes (apart from the weapons which are truly awful) By the time I got 16 P12S clears I had gotten every savage drop I needed to gear every role and that was by doing purely PF and having weeks where I just got nothing. The real issue is tome gear, I did the math last tier and it took 36 weeks - NINE MONTHS - to get the 6.4 BiS on every job, or 41 weeks if you played SpS BLm instead of crit.

That said, BiS is really not needed outside of ultimates and savage criterion, anywhere else - even savage - you are good enough with just crafted (apart from later savage weeks where the ilevel lockout from players themselves) currently the highest ilevel you need to enter amywhere is 690 for extremes which you can get from your role gear and farming expert dungeons, anything higher its only to hit harder and get prettier numbers in a certain site. So altought I would like weapons to be much cheaper and tome gear to go down in price by the odd patches, I think the weekly lockout is a nessesary evil to keep the raids somewhat alive and to not allow people to burn themselves out (and of course, more sub money too)

Yeah, or maybe it would help make those raids more accessible and more players would be able to use the content.

[Rithy255]

Personally I think the game does need to be more accommodating to people who enjoy multiple jobs, Melee DPS especially suffer from only being able to gear two jobs at a time. (seriously why do melee have different gear types in the first place?)

It's not like it would be game breaking to allow people to gear different jobs at the same time because if you have multiple characters you can actually do this... it's just way more annoying because you have to go through the story serval times and level jobs ect.

I can understand having lockouts with gear and loot, but I really think it should be dependent on the Job I think this could be done by having the "books" that drop from savage be based on gear type, so you can get 1 Fending book and one mending book, in the same week. (just as a example), Loot drops could also apply based on gear type, I guess this system would need a lot of work though i could be missing something here.

[LilyPendragon]

but I really think it should be dependent on the Job I think this could be done by having the "books" that drop from savage be based on gear type, so you can get 1 Fending book and one mending book, in the same week. (just as a example), Loot drops could also apply based on gear type, I guess this system would need a lot of work though i could be missing something here.

This, along with not screwing other people out of loot if you join a party after having already cleared would be perfect. If I clear with my static on BLM, but still want to raid, I could go on Dark Knight or Samurai, and still join 2 chest parties.

Keeping the lockout per sub-role would be the best of both worlds. You can't gear your main any faster, but you don't have to wait months to be able to gear other things, and are still able to actually play the content without locking yourself out of a decent portion of PF groups.

[AngaratoSvartberg]

been like this since ARR. people been crying about since ARR.
never gonna change.