I wanna preface this with saying I've enjoyed a lot of Dawntrail so far, but I think there's either something shifting about me personally and wether or not certain aspects of the game are even *for me* anymore, or the game itself has nothing interesting up it's sleeve but meaningless grind and rng slop.My motivation got completely stunted by frustrations with awful rng. This obviously isn't the game's fault but since it wasn't turning around, I lost the drive to play altogether.
The bad luck just infested every piece of content I did, from high end to casual, and nowadays constant showering of useless items in cosmic and OC.
Coming back to the game after a break, I'm having the opposite issue.
For the sake of enjoying myself more, I focused on content less reliant on rng.
I was hoping that 7.31 would bring something fun to do with new relic quests. I was let down by the last step just being tomes again but this time you gotta grind atmas! Yay!
The steps this time around really irked me even more and seeing the insultingly low rate of light gain from roulettes, I looked up to see what the last step will be and of COURSE it once again is 1.5k tomes per weapon. Seeing how long farming roulettes would take after that, just gave up. It doesn't fix the problem Endwalker introduced at all.
It made it worse by just adding obnoxious arbitrary steps instead of replacing the "1.5k tomes per weapon" issue with something actually fun that's tied to OC or a fun activity.
I realize now I'm not really getting anything out of grinding either. I feel 0 motivation to do constant roulettes, or deal with rng, and I just don't think there's much to enjoy anymore.
I'm not having fun outside of DTs banger fight design. The rest is just a chore. Nothing interesting, unique or fun here, and Phaenna is just more of the exact same content for cosmic.
Stuck between rng and long boring grinds, with nothing actually interesting for frankly insulting rewards, boring glams and ugly mounts, relics that are same item level as content released several months ago, and an honest lack of any heart or soul put into the content. It feels bland and vapid instead of exciting and new as many patches have been for me
These grinds weren't NEARLY this frustrating at any other point in my experience with both other expansions and even THIS very one.
I'm likely to reinstall and resub when beastmaster and zone 2 of OC release, but at the moment I think my time with this game is slowly approaching a PERMANENT end.
Its either me just not having the time or energy to keep up with this, or the way this content is implemented that just has me feeling my passion and drive that kept me here for 10k hours is slipping away.
What do you think about my predicament?
Do you think content design and the manner they implemented grind is at fault? Or am I just growing tired and should move on to different games cause it's a *me* issue?
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