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Having a bunch of things to chase makes for a more fulfilling experience, and that’s what I want more of in FFXIV if I can get it!
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Watch this next: https://youtu.be/FalOh8mW1EA
Having a bunch of things to chase makes for a more fulfilling experience, and that’s what I want more of in FFXIV if I can get it!
Follow my Twitter @rinonbanana
#ffxiv #endwalker #dawntrail
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MMO's kind of have an uphill battle. They try to cater to a lot of different types of players. Then content of certain parts get more priority. The disability accessibility features have kept me playing new world. The end game gear progression was unsatisfying for my friends to keep playing. I kept playing and found things to do.
my brother had said the other day that he didn't know what to do in the game because he "completed all the content" but what he actually meant was he had finished all the raids and current battle content. but he never really touched crafting or gathering, eureka, bozja, any deep dungeon, ect. when people say there is nothing to do or they have done everything the game has to offer, what they actually mean is they have exhausted all of THEIR options, just the stuff they had deemed worth their time.
I’ve been around since 2.0 but I was very on and off over stormblood so all I’ve done in eureka was get max level. My goal is to master and get everything out of eureka by 7.0!
i guess it's all about setting goals for yourself. I got some great ideas for myself just from the comments of this video (doing each and every quest, do triple triad, do achievements and so on). I have a small house, no desire to change it (my Plot is perfect), so i actually don't need much gil. Yet, i treat the amount of Gil i have as a personal highscore. I just like seeing the number going up. My Goal is reaching the Gil Cap at least once. Maybe i expand on that, when i'm there. Maybe i'll be capping out my Main and each Retainer, who knows. But this one goal keeps me playing and enjoying the lull.
Okey, this downtime for me been busy. My static is still blinding through p12s phase 2, and while there is no raidin, I have gone and farmed all of the EX mounts (just waiting for that last mount to be buyable), and once I was done with that. I had a moment of silence, I thought "what now? next raid day is in 3 days." Well I finally took the chance to start Eureka… I just walked in the first instance and started. Blind and enjoying. Just today I got through 2nd zone and starting zone 3. Ofc I do not playing FFZIV all days of the week (normally), but currently I just can't stop playing it daily to get Eureka done and get to do Baldesian Arsenal for that SWEET OZMA MOUNT! rages in excitement
I ended up taking a break not too long after 6.4 as my static ended up dying to TOP and left me to prog the newest savage tier in PF (which was a new experience raiding with random people) which did burn me out after getting non-stop parties that either couldn't make it to phase 2 of P12S, or groups that would but couldnt get past caloric 1. I started playing again recently and my static is even coming back and at the end of this month we're gonna be doing the current tier and then after that we're gonna jump back into ultimates, though they all said they'd rather start from the bottom up and do UCOB and then we'll eventually find our way back to TOP- but that is something i'm definitely looking forward to
100% agree, endwalker has been amazing for catch up, I've been playing since 1.0 and the rate at which content was pushed, i was never able to keep up, there's just so many achievements in the game i couldnt finish them all before the next set came out. endwalker was a great chance to catch up on them and now im ranked 2 in the world for achievement points. i have 1800+ days worth of playtime and im down to the last 17 achievements in game. endwalker was a great expansion for community building. for getting out there and doing all the content the game has to offer, whether it interested me at first glance, or not.
I haven't seen the video yet but the thumbnail enough made me wanna talk about the current Tomestone event: It actually feels really good. Better even.
Seeing people on Ocean Fishing, talking in chat, people doing Fates in SHB maps, people going to Golden Saucer to do GATEs. It's been really fun doing it with a bunch of randoms. And from what I've seen, you can just do the weekly farms and you won't lose anything from the event. Is really freaking good.
This video has made me realize I really need to solidify my goals for 14 and for me, someone who's always been a jack-of-all-trades, who genuinely enjoys combat in this game as well as difficulty? Well, I have 19 jobs I need to **master**, not just learn. I'm good with most of them from a casual perspective but there's so much more I need to learn about them and how they work in high-end
Who knows, maybe Dawntrail has me getting orange parses on 21 of them!
I always do stuff like this, but even then I'd prefer new content being regularly added. It's one thing to have a small lull in content and you fill in the void, it's another thing for it to last for half a year. I do agree, they need more goal/reward style of content.
Been playing since EW's release with my husband who has been playing since 1.0. Even HE hasn't done everything– I just recently beat him to cap in Eureka and will be doing my first BA run soon. I also beat him to the Big Fish title (he's been stuck in lancet jail for so long please YoshiP release him). I am trying to clear out all of my sidequests in the game (just two zones left to do!) and get all of my classes to 90 before DT (everything's at 80+ now). I have mentor roulette, I have PVP achievements, I have treasure dungeon titles– there's SO much to do, you just have to engage with it. (I find it helps to have a group of people who pull you in to content– ask 90% of my FC/discord group how I got them addicted to ocean fishing, haha)
I decided to farm Eureka and Bozja (I hated the latter on release) and it's so fun, I even find myself unable to leave the instances most of the time. So great discoveries, I never have a downtime in the game 😊
I’m just got final fish title and my extreme bahamut mount. Those were some of the big drought goals i had set that just got done with sooner than I anticipated. I’ll probably take a month break now for ff7 rebirth and come back energized to finish off 100% fishing log with ocean fish and maybe finally get that last mount in the game I need from the blu mage raids
When people say there's nothing to do 99% of the time they just mean "theres nothing i WANT to do" and when you point this out they get real mad for some reason. and for those of you who have legit done every single thing. Cool. Good job. You won you can now go do something else for a little bit. I think 20k playtime you may have gotten your moneys worth so far.
Copium.
I'm genuinely stressing that I won't have time to achieve all my goals before dawntrail lol. I'm rank 5 for achievements on my world but that just makes me aware of how far I am from completion, especially things that don't have achievement points associated with them – like I'd much rather try to get all the remaining ultimate weapons I don't have, but that means I won't have time to grind hunts… It's rough trying to prioritise between all the things I want to do!!! (and I'm in 2 DSR statics, a TOP static, an ucob static, a criterion savage group, and play in both 3-man and 4-man weekly competitive mahjong tournaments. There ain't enough time!!!)
During the downtime before Endwalker, I made it my goal to do all of Eureka and Bozja. I ran Baldesian Arsenal several times just for the fun, even after my first clear. I worked on getting every log in Bozja to get the bike mount, learning and completing some of those duels along the way.
This time around I've been working on big fish, and I also wanna look into finding a Delibrum Savage group to work on getting the Cerberus mount. I definitely enjoy these down times when I'm not progging savage that let me go do stuff I normally didnt have time for.
I am still quite new to the game, being just recently unsprouted and then grinding trade mentor to get back into the novice network. I have so much to do. Every day I do a little and have so many things I learn every day. Today I did the entire eden story line because I wanted to know the story before the new ultimate drops. I haven't even set foot into pvp or savage raids.
Oh yeah, I've been watching CyderSpider's series about getting all the achievements and I've been introduced to like 5 huge things I never even knew were in the game…Dispute me having unlocked a couple of them already.
My current goals before Dawntrail (aside from actually finishing the MSQ) are filling up collections (mounts, minions, TT cards, etc.), leveling all of my Jobs (currently have two 90s), and finishing older content that I never got around to (I recently finished the Omega and Alexander raids and unlocked Eden and Pandæmonium). With the Moogle event out right now I'm also farming tomestones on the side (I already completed my three challenges).
People who run out of things to do in FF14 tend to treat it like an MMO like WoW, where old content becomes 'dead' once the next influx of content comes out, which just isn't true for FFXIV. I respect how much effort has been put into each aspect of the game to make older content worth doing without even needing to be a completionist. I find myself coming back to Eureka and Bozja to level alternate jobs while also at the same time chasing some cosmetic stuff, and that's just one example.
Taking after Rath Games on Youtube/Twitch, I started a solo run of my own! Do all content on your own, only use gear that you yourself have created, and so forth. It's been a lot of fun and a unique way of playing rather than mindlessly running through some of the early fights.
I feel like an underappreciated thing in these lulls is letting people catch up. I took a break from XIV for nearly half a year and have recently returned. I'm happy for this "dead" space because I don't feel as much of a pressure to catch up at breakneck pace in order to get up to speed. I'm having fun goofing around on alts more and replaying older story stuff, and it's actually really refreshing!
I play almost daily and haven't queued for a dungeon in several months. I have plenty to do running my bar, doing side quests, and grinding Botanist achievements. I'm really behind on the msq, but I'll get around to it eventually.
The only people saying that there's nothing to do in the game are the no life streamers who only do battle content and aren't creative enough to think of things to do in their streams.
Even they haven't done everything in the game and usually play easy jobs so they can get carried through raids.
I first started playing ffxiv just before 6.3 came out, and I totally binged the story. Because I got so sucked into MSQ, I decided to keep a lot of the side content for after it was over, because I knew I'd struggle waiting for more story. I've been caught up with MSQ since summertime, so as we wait for the new expansion, I'm working on getting my crafters and gatherers leveled, a few Anima relics, island sanctuary, and progging my first ultimate. Logging in started feeling a little stale, so I finally picked up BLU, and have been having a total blast with that.
My closest friend has had most content finished since before we met, so whenever we feel like we want to freshen up older content, we've gone back to savages and attempt to do them as a duo. It has been so much fun to set our own goals and problem-solve, and its fun for me since I wasn't around when they were "relevant". In the same vein, I've started to go back and do MINE runs of raids and trials so I can get a feel for what they were like when they were current.
Back when EW released, there was a lot of pressure to do MSQ. It burnt me out, badly.
Learning to have goals is what got me over it and since I’ve had no burn out. I go through each individual goal and come up with more as I go.
With 6.55 done, I’ve recently cleared BA, and plan to get more simply because it’s fun. I’d like to do my third Eureka Relic, clear E12S for loot, farm EXs for mounts, finish all 19 EW relics and get the <Olympian> title (20 clears of the final room in the newest 90 treasure maps).
These are smaller scale goals compared to what I did during the Patch Cycle. Having those goals keep my interest in XIV whilst playing other games, and I love that it’s an option.
Well said. I also appreciate the breathing room the end of expansion gives. As someone who cares about the game, hearing people say verbatim there is "nothing to do" hurts. They never elaborate why they feel that way, either. If all they're looking for is new story or high-end fights there is a very well defined schedule for those, so it should never come as a surprise when there's a lull.
Glad to hear it’s still going. I was thinking about finally getting into this game, and was worried it was dying or dead like EVE Online.
"There's nothing to do!"
"I only want to do ONE thing in this game!"
Two peas in a pod
heres what ive been doing, and what i plan on doing, during this "content drought"
– working on getting omni-90. currently on 12/19 at 90. will get blu to 80… eventually.
– worked on and finished Bozja. currently grinding mettle/relics. got my paladin relic as my first one.
– working on island santuary
– planning to head into eureka.
– planning to learn monk (pain)
– planning to start extreme to work my way into ultimate.
– started an alt to play through the story since i am a story skipper
As a roleplayer, I've never experienced a content drought in an MMO.
I'm enjoying playing through the ace attorney games that I missed when I was in high school. XIV isn't going to poof into dust when I am not looking so no need to force myself to log in before next expansion. I'm allergic to relics unfortunately. Deadly allergy. I will DIE if there is a relic in my inventory. I've farmed Bozja and Zadnor a lot but I never started a relic, same with eureka.
Content droughts are Ultimate prog time for me. Groups are typically chill and my static and I have a good time. Any other point in an expansion and people set weird deadlines and expectations of being at X phase before Y drops and everyone gets stressed. My more casual friends also take breaks to play other games and don't feel neglected when I'm not spending time with them.
A lot of people unfortunately have the mentality that only the content they care about is relevant. So if there is no new ultimate raids lets say, those people consider every other patch note worthless fluff taking away dev time from more ultimate for them because that's the "real" content
probably ultimates, having done with TEA and UCOB, might as well uwu next
as someone who started with endwalker's launch, the breathing room is greatly appreciated. Just recently did Eureka + Bozja, and, honestly, even the fact that the endwalker relic is only tomes has been helpful since it means I'm incidentally progressing it through roulettes while working on bozja+anima weapons. I'm slowly progging through p12s with a casual static and might end up trying some of the older ultimates this year!
This expansion cycle ive gotten a eureka relic, and some elemental armor, learned ast in high end content to see what all the fus of the "hardest healer" was about, got all jobs to 90, got all my bozja field notes. Even still indont feel "done"
I've been working on all of the relics, which means also having to try get through eureka and bozja since I only started playing in EW. Hunt trains are a big part of it for the tomestones, so also putting effort into trying to get the endwalker hunt mount, and trying to do enough roulettes on tank and healer to make steady if slow progress towards the commendations needed for mentor so I can give that roulette a try.
The single biggest thing I've been working on going into quiet time is helping friends get through the msq, running around as they do cutscenes and just hanging out.
this came at such a funny time, because i had just recently debated this with my static leader. we were talking about some reservations we had with some of dawntrails early release info, and he dropped a comment that was strange to me saying that endwalkers postgame was barren and dead. I asked him what he meant, and he said there was ZERO postgame compared to the past. I asked if he played eureka orthos, or the new crystaline conflict, all of island sanctuary, the new gold saucer stuff, or how he was feeling about two whole ultimates. He paused and admitted… he forgot. He forgot that content came out at all. He forgot the impact of those things. He ultimately decided that those things werent for him at the moment, and thats fine, but he ended up realizing how much more… grateful we could be about what we got. Tbh, both of us ended up agreeing that our excitement for the relic ended up putting some jade-colored glasses on us, but i was happy to help someone who definitely loved the game remember that things arent as bad as we might think in a dark moment
Started achievement hunting a few months back. Always loved completing games, but never tried in ffxiv. Got my score from 12k to almost 16k. It's been a lot of fun and I've got to experience content I never would have before.
Aiming to get as close as I can to 20k before DT releases.
I decided to finally get started on grinding skyward score for the Pteranodon mount. It's gonna be a lot of time spent in Diadem mindlessly gathering but It'll eventually pay off with a rare mount
I am aiming to get my Amaro mount in time for Dawntrail, which means I only have to 80… 3 tanks, 2 dps, and 2 healers. Totally doable, right?
I have seen this title change 4 times, video must be a banger, watching it just because of that
Honestly, sometimes I wish there was a little less new content. MSQ/Expansions, yes. But with so many tribal quests and custom deliveries, I feel like I will never catch up. I do understand people genuinely may have done all of those, but even after almost 3 years of playing the amount of stuff I want to complete feels daunting at times.
I still need to level a few other jobs to 90 and all gathering and crafting jobs to 90. I still want necromancer, I still have NEVER touched any savage or ultimate, so I absolutely have so much to do in that regard. And my biggest goal is getting that damn Sabotender mount from the gold saucer. I'm using the MGP tickets from the moogle event to help with that
every time someone says the game has no content at the end of an expansion everything in this video is exactly what I think about