how do you play a P2P game casually?Follow

did you not read what I said.. first off we're already off the "getting my moneys worth for what im paying" part so your comments on that are now irrelevant. AS for t3 I answered that too... did you not see the part about "I didnt do coil until AFTER it was made farmable and the lockouts were removed", since t3 dropped NO gear and you only need to complete it ONCE to gain access to turn 6 (once you finish the other 4 turns), everyone who needed t3 completed it PRE coil 1-5 farm able lockout removal.... when I tried to DUuty finder t3 after the lockout was removed I sat there for 3+ hours in queue and nothing popped.. and even in PARTY FINDER ive only ever to this day since the lockout removal seen a PF for turn 3 TWICE and NO ONE but the person who created the PF joined the group/. So buying it was the only option since clearly no one was doing it anymore.... all that was already explained in previous posts.


As for the person who said they play casually and dont car about being behind as they have not done an extreme yet etc etc. I dont care about being behind either, i mean if you leave for months of course youre gonna be behind.... what I DO care about is when I do come back and finally DO decide to do that content. Ill still be able to find ppl who are STILL doing it and getting it done a opposed to it being a T3 situation (like explained above) or Ultima hard where no one is doing i anymore so now not only are yo behind but you cant progress because no one is doing it so youll NEVER see that content (even though youre ready to see it now) OR you have to pay someone to get it done.. when if you had done it on day one when everyone was still doing it youd have gotten it done and over with and avoided that situation.


Now if SE removed level syncs and party requirements for old content that no one is doing and thus made it soloable (kind alike dynamis is now in FFXI) then Id be golden because Id know even if i stopped for years, whenever I DID finally come back I kniw ill be able to do whatever I missed out on with no problems because i don have to depend on anyone else to get it done and can just jump in and do it myself thus being able to do it at my own pace without having to wait, hours, days or weeks for a group who FINALLY wants to do it. Or without having to pay an FC to run me through it.

CT is nothing like Dynamis.

Someone smart said the definition of insanity is repeating the same action expecting different results. If you're really looking for more socialization and challenge, then join a coil 2 static. Otherwise, keep pluggin away at that Brayflox and CT and keep wondering why you're always rated into oblivion.

Saying that it's like Dynamis because you use an alliance for it is incredibly misleading. There is no event in FFXIV equivalent (or even close) to Dynamis at this time.

Just on it's own, it certainly isn't. But I think PF could be a more social experience, and the kind of leadership that the PF starter shows goes a long way in that.

And by showing leadership, I don't mean that the PF starter needs to know every aspect of the fight and give out detailed commands to each party member. If the PF starter initiates some discussion about possible strategies, I'm more likely to chime in with my own 2 cents. If the PF starter greets people as they join and engages in some social chit chat, I'm more likely to respond in kind. If the PF starter doesn't say a word, even after I say my "Hello" after joining, I'm less likely to do any of those things.

Duo, I'd love to see your list of Top 5 reasons why you're still playing this game. For real.

That's your opinion.

The reason why Ultima HM isn't farmed like T1-5 and ex primals is because those instances (especially T1 and T2) are just as easy, drop better gear, and are also gateway instances to harder content, which Ultima HM isn't. Ultima HM was great at the time, but it is easier to gear alts to a higher standard in other content.

I understand the worry regarding people not running content, but SE have done a pretty good job of keeping old content relevant with roulettes, it is a little too early to panic :-)

Except they're not clearing it just in time for the next patch. Many people are done well before the next patch is released and there isn't much to bridge the gap. Maybe when they release the GS we'd have something to do to occupy the time we'd normally be waiting on new progression content. Until then, they're always faced with the possibility that people will just un-sub until the next patch comes.

I had a bit of a head start bringing a nearly capped class to ARR at launch. I still managed to cap 4 jobs, unlock all appropriate cross-class abilities and spells and progress through EX content. I don't consider myself hardcore because I wasn't on a schedule and didn't have a group dedicated to clearing endgame content, yet I still sit for 6-8 weeks prior to updates with not much to do.

At the current pace you'd have to be either extremely ambitious(wanting to cap all jobs, classes, professions, ect.) or extremely casual(time constricted) to work through the content they're releasing and finish your goals just before another update arrives. I can't really say that the game is flawed because it doesn't offer enough content to keep me busy, but it's definitely a valid reason for me not to sub.

I may not always agree with your posts Filth, but in this occasion we seem to have opposite views that end up with a similar result.

You are saying there isn't enough content per patch cycle to keep people busy, and I'm saying that a game that receives regular updates shouldn't be so easy to catch up to "endgame" that people can take breaks for 2 months and achieve it in a week. In either of these situations, someone who claims to play casually shouldn't really be "entitled" to moan. Clear the "easymode" content with a ton of time to spare and take a break. Or when the game becomes saturated with content, don't take a break for 2 months, come back moaning you cant catch up as apparently it is impossible to socially interact in order to clear content, and then blame the game design for making it too hard to catch up. Don't want to be 2 months behind? Don't take 2 months off if it means that much to you.

I will be 1st to admit I play casually (2hrs a day is my average, 90% of which is taken up by roulettes), and if I decided a 2 month break was a good idea, I wouldn't expect to come back and gear up in a week. The amount of content released at the moment is about right for me.

I hope I'm not coming across as ranty, I just find posts that are contradictory or self defeating quite frustrating (not you Filth). It's the whole entitlement scenario again. Yes you pay a sub, yes it's different to a F2P, but I pay for gas and electricity monthly, provided they are supplying it to me, it's down to me what I use it for. They supply the content, if you choose to exclude some/take a break/whatever and then moan because "you don't want to do content X, I need more content Y now" or "I've been away for 2 months, it's so unfair I'm behind everyone", then you have made your own bed of nails, get comfy.

I have plenty of ppl on my friends list however we talk so infrequently I dont even remember half the ppl on it. Yes I have a linkshell but its an RP linkshell.. and theyre so casual that they need MY help far more than I need theirs (i.e theyre not geared or caught up to doing the things Im doing to even be able to help me with said stuff).

As for making a PF why should I do that when Ive joined countless other PPLS PF that went nowhere because they couldnt get it to fill up... why would the results suddenly differ if I do it instead?

"All of these actions, unfortunately for you, would require that your in-forum demeanor and behavior be quite different from how you act in-game. If you respond to people there like you do here, I'm certain no one joined your Party Finder because you are on their Blacklist."

Surely you're intelligent and I would think youd think I am too, in fact not only am I intelligent but Im also, cunning, conniving and manipulative and quite well versed at getting what I want, as such if I think I have a use for you Id treat you very different to increase my chances of getting whatever if is I think I can get from you, and one thing I know about that subject is staying on someones base side is the VERY wrong way to get what you want from them or to get them to do what you want, point being im VERY capable of conducting myself accordingly if I believe its to my benefit, as such Im on a lot less peoples blacklists than you might think, dont be so naive as to think that what you see displayed her is how I am eveywhere, after all Im sure you know what they say about those who assume.

Infact on the phone last night with a friend while we were both plying even commented "God, you're quite nice and polite ingame.... if only these people knew how you REALLY are." So yes I can change my demeanor and behaviour quite well if and when it benefits me.

As for brd my Acc is 518 (which is above even t9 cap) and I m il98 also what do you mean pretending there are gear options? there very much ARE gear options