changes to the game that would go hard

[Collin_Sky]

IDK, do you think gear progression is slow? I think it's fast compared to other MMOs that I've played.

It's incredibly slow if you play more than one role and don't week 1 clear, yes.
Even more so if you PF and have to rely on book pity timers.

Tome gear in particular is the worst. It's pretty much impossible for a static to get all the upgrade mats for a single job in a reasonable time without spending books, and if you do that, you sacrifice being able to buy actual savage gear. It's a really dumb system.

It's also largely irrelevant. The crafted gear that you can buy within 10 minutes of a raid patch going live is enough to clear the hardest content that the majority of the playerbase even play. You don't even need tome/savage gear unless you're logging or running ultimate on release, which the majority aren't.

Not irrelevant. Why should I grief a group by using a 710 job when I could use a 730 instead? Why settle for lower performance if my goal is to enjoy playing at my peak? I want to push myself, and restrictive gear prevents me from doing that.