Hitting 50 These DaysFollow

Going to have to agree.

I'm not one to ***** endlessly about XIVs comparatively minor issues, but the fast rate of dungeon nerfing and gear obsolescence is going to bite us in the butt, and probably sooner than we think.

It took my FC and I about three months to get full Darklight on our first jobs. We went from AF to WP gear to AK gear and a piece or two of myth/DL, to full myth/DL and relic+1s. This took a few months and some work. It was a satisfying pace, and I felt great every time I put on a new piece of "Summoner's _____."

Our newest member to join us was our old FFXI RDM. She rolled a WHM this time around. She hit lvl 50 via roulettes, dungeons, and DD speedruns in just over 2 weeks playing casually. We took her to WP a half dozen times to get a feel for endgame dungeons and a couple minor upgrades, then a couple runs of AV to get her some good healer practice. She immediately bought a Vanya and HQ i70 weapon off the MB.

That was three weeks ago.

She's now i86 with full CT//myth/weathered gear and is almost ready to Zenith her Thyrus.

She went from fresh 50 to 86 in about one sixth the time it took us to get to i70. That's great for her and our ability to get her into events. But knowing that will keep happening, I look at every new weathered piece I put on and I don't feel good. I feel like barfing and yelling "MMMMEEEEEEHHHHH!!!!!" at the top of my lungs in a disgruntled voice. My effort doesn't mean ****, so why not slack off and be rewarded when the nerfs come? Why care at all? I still don't have an answer to that question, so I've taken up crafting.

Lamia seems to have some of the worst inflation. I was feeling pretty rich at 3.5 million gil that I got through hard work, then a certain FC member (who is also a real life friend) explained how he had broken the markets to strike it rich and had almost twice as much money as I do!

I ended up making my own Vanya hands since I was still in AF gloves (everything else was at least iLvl 70 besides accessories) and the materials cost me about 80K.

Edited, Jun 3rd 2014 4:59pm by Catwho

I'll have to double check. All I know is when I saw what Vanya gloves were selling for I went NOPE NOPE NOPE and made them for myself.

That's already the case though. what meaningful different is there between "I'm bored to death of doing a billion Brayflox speedruns" and "I'm bored to death of doing 50 million Brayflox speedruns, but at least it isn't more"?

My FC is casual elite. Someone here once described it as "Firmcore", where we have a ton of talent between us but like taking things slowly and just enjoying the ride. We don't race to the end, so what seems like will continue happening is that, just about the time we get around to a piece of content it is going to be getting the nerf bat. And just about the time we complete a set of tome gear it will become obsolete. Seriously, the myth cap was removed the week after I completed my first myth set. Heck, two of our members never even set foot in Coil before the echo buff. I have the highest personal progression in the FC, and I'm currently at T5 and farming Levi EX. Guys like us get left in the dirt by SEs forced pacing, and then they hand us "babby mode!" shortcuts because they think that we suck. Its very, very disheartening.

I like that XIV is more casual in terms of time investment, but that's not an excuse for being so fast paced. The updates need to be bigger, further apart, and with less progression content and more side content. There are two ways that people can catch up: One is by shortcuts, but the other is simply with time. I can't speak for everyone, but I'd sure as hell prefer more of the latter.

Okay that is HQ prices but there are no NQs listed so your choices are pay butt expensive prices or go in AF til you get tomes.

And look, there are the NQ Vanya gloves listed for 150K that I turned down yesterday.

Apparently it means a lot considering all the folks who STILL brag that they "did COP when it was still hard."

You kids have no idea what we went through.

I'm not ashamed of it.

I still remember my static alliance we cobbled together taking 5 and a half hours to clear Promy: Holla. And getting eaten by Diremites under Diabolos.

Clearing CoP is a badge of honor as far as MMOs go.