(01-20-2015, 11:41 AM)Warren Castille Wrote: But these people are playing wrong. How will they know if I don't publicly thumb my nose at them in a passive-aggressive manner?But here's the thing. You relinquish any right to complain about progression if you're not actually participating in the progression outside of the most noncommittal fashion.
If you want something enough, you put in the time. If not, no biggy, you obviously didn't want it enough if you couldn't bring yourself to make sacrifices for it, so you have to let it go. In FFXIV's case everything will eventually get nerfed to irrelevance anyway after enough time has passed.
I want that Wootz plate set but there's no way in hell I'm paying the 2m+ just for a set of glamour, so I wait.
Besides that, the relic quest is so damn obviously a timesink anyway. No one should be surprised at this point that every step is as grindy as the last.