changes to the game that would go hard

[BigCheez]

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.

I feel like needing BiS for multiple roles is a fairly minor complaint? A set of crafted gear would surely suffice, no? There's enough time to gear 3-4 roles between savage and ultimate release. Surely anyone who feels that they need multiple roles geared immediately is playing with multiple groups and already needs an alt to circumvent lockouts anyway.

I agree that the distribution of loot is a mess though. Due to so much of the gear and also tome mats dropping from the 2nd fights, you need to reclear it so much more than the others to get your loot.

[Collin_Sky]

I feel like needing BiS for multiple roles is a fairly minor complaint? A set of crafted gear would surely suffice, no? There's enough time to gear 3-4 roles between savage and ultimate release. Surely anyone who feels that they need multiple roles geared immediately is playing with multiple groups and already needs an alt to circumvent lockouts anyway.

I agree that the distribution of loot is a mess though. Due to so much of the gear and also tome mats dropping from the 2nd fights, you need to reclear it so much more than the others to get your loot.

With this logic, why bother gearing at all?
Why should anyone care about gearing up? It's pointless to do so.
It's a terrible reply to this discussion. The entire point of the endgame loop is to gear up your jobs.

[BigCheez]

With this logic, why bother gearing at all?
Why should anyone care about gearing up? It's pointless to do so.
It's a terrible reply to this discussion. The entire point of the endgame loop is to gear up your jobs.

Literally my point. Gearing in FFXIV is pointless and boring and I would rather it was removed than endure the current state of it.