Well, duh, obviously admire the artwork, that’s why there’s no flying there 
Less than half of the rare’s have any involvement with the teleporters. As in like 4 of them are accessed by a portal. All of the others spawn on the map or on a floating island.
Yea. I spent 10 hours straight on one character today trying to farm those nodes because it’s the only way to get Rune Chits for one of the Archivist quests. Trust me I almost had an aneurysm from all the rage. All but 3 or 4 of them are on trees or tiny little vines on cliffsides that are nearly impossible to navigate when you’re trying to beat other people there, too.
Wrath had these Raids within less than 9 months,.
Naxxramas (Tier 7)
Obsidian Sanctum
Vault of Archavon
Eye of Eternity
Ulduar (Tier 8)
Trial of the Crusader (Tier 9)
Here we are in SL with 1 raid in 8 months…Sorry its kind of hard to defend SL lack of content
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I miss that mechagon vibe so much. It was the most fun the game had for a while. Wish Korthia had half as much activity but so far it’s just an empty land of nothing.
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Yes…hard to defend. There was definitely no significant differences in the world between now and the time frame that all your examples were released >.>
I’m having a similar experience.
I did the story + dailies on tuesday. That was ~3 hours of gameplay.
I did dailies (~15 mins) and all the one-time relics below rank 4 and the assault on wednesday. That was maybe 2-3 hours total?
Today I did my L9 Torghast runs (~40 mins), dailies (~15 mins) and that’s it. An hour of gameplay, on the third day of a patch release.
I play to raid and do m+ (which are the only things Blizzard tends to do right 100% of the time), and my time to play starts next week, but I can’t imagine being the kind of player who only does world content (solo, casual, whatever you wanna call it) and not feeling crushed by this “content” patch.
Sure, there’s gonna be more story. About a half hour worth per week by 9.0’s stardards, for a month and a half.
Also there’s a bunch of meaningless things to collect, recolored mounts and whatnot, but actual content, that you engage and have fun in…?
Korthia feels as empty as the early iterations of the Maw felt. I wouldn’t be surprised if they cranked the spawn rate of everything up to eleven, because it does feel like a barren wasteland.
My 2c.
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There seems to be an internal cap on everything. Chests, nest, rares are a given. But even after a while purple mobs with the artifact fragments no longer appear.
So blizzard hard capped every and just said nothing about it.
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I’m certainly glad I have alts to run now that I am ‘done’ for the week on the main.
However, my views for doom from last week have been turned a little.
I’ve noticed the severe drop off of rares and treasures compared to Tuesday night as well.
I spent 4 hours Tuesday and cleared most of the rares available in the zone, spent 9 hours between today and yesterday and killed maybe half of the rares (often the exact same ones).
As for Treasures, I could swear the spawn rate’s gone abysmal…
I wouldn’t call Flying and Torghast new content - cool they added a score system to Torghast to force you to do it in a particular way.
Renown and soulbinds aren’t content - they’re passive additions that you gain from doing other things.
Raid/Dungeon/Story are a given. The issue is that so much of this is time gated.
They released 2 hours of quest content week one of a new patch (and a bunch of mindless rare and treasure grinding) after waiting 7 months. Not sure why they didn’t release the dungeon this week or a bit more story content to keep things interesting until raid and mythic+/PvP season started.
It’s not exactly the best first impression of 9.1. That’s not to say the content that’s out isn’t fun. I enjoyed it. But it’s not enough to keep my interest personally, there needs to be more than waiting for rares to kill.
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Im in the same boat now. After a few hours of hunting treasures none are spawning anymore. Just watched a swarm of players run up to a spot and by their animation started looting something. Normally a nest is in that spot sometimes so it seems like you can only loot X amount of treasures a day then you can’t see them anymore.
BIGGEST PATCH EVAR, WANDERING AROUND WITH NOTHING TO DO!
Ugh.
It’s such a barren place and geez, even Mechagon, what the hell do people see FUN in that. This team needs to think outside the box.
Iirc you can only loot a specific node once per day, so if you loot that nest in the tree by the korthia village, you can’t loot it again until reset the next day
If Prison ended in 3 days, there’d be a lot more crime.
You aren’t playing the amount of time you’re saying you are. Treasure spawns are frequent, and so are rares. Shard to a busier server if yours is dead.
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That’s just wrong.
As people have noted, rares barely spawn. I’ve been into 40 man Korthia rare farm groups with over 50+ different random that weren’t part of the group and we saw 5 rares in 3 hours.
As for treasures, I just saw the difference from my Warrior compared to my mage; You cannot loot the same treasures more than once during the same day.
Nests and Shrooms are treasures.
Ok so, by now I have placed a total of 7 lvl 60 chars in Korthia and this is what I have noticed:
Up until the moment you get Tier 3, there are lots of rare spawns, chests etc in the shard you’re in. The moment you get Tier 3 with the archivist (by killing rares, doing the relic quests etc.) the place suddently goes very QUIET.
I am under the impression, and you can call me a conspiracy theorist here, but it’s hard not to notice when it has happened to every single char I got tier 3. I’m going to play it this mage now, and lastly one of my rogues to see if the same happens for them as well.
Anybody else notice the same pattern? I would call this Timegating, just not blatant in your face and probably not something that someone who doesn’t play many alts like me would notice.
lol, not true. I loot shrooms five times, shard piles five times, nests five times. Again, you are NOT doing what you say you are doing. And LOL, don’t join a 40 man farm group, wth?? 
You’ll never find treasures with 40 ppl running around with you???
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Time to progress your Main Story Quests (MSQ) in FF14!