Dark Matter Augmentation/Campaign
I've found this campaign to be really interesting, particularly with the results of the gear and the feelings it has left with me on Dark Matter augmenting. It's a strange mix because doing the free augments is one of my current favorite parts of logging into FFXI atm because the results can be so crazy. However, the results are more often than not utter trash.
Because of this, it's awesome that the devs implemented this campaign to give us free augments for gear. However, this campaign has also instilled the ideology within me and everyone else I've talked to that Dark Matter augmenting is completely futile outside of the campaign. Because we are only given 1 augment chance for 1 dark matter, the odds are incredibly out of the player's favor to get anything useful. The main problem with this is the total lack of Dark Matter along with the fact that Dark Matter's cost has increased quite a bit (on Sylph they generally go for 1mil each). Today on my three characters within my account, I got trash on every single augment attempt; that would've been 18 million gil down the drain if you could even find 18 dark matters.
So basically, unless they change the amount of augment attempts you get per a single dark matter (maybe 3-6 tries per dark matter?), it doesn't seem worth it to try augmenting outside of the free campaign. I'm really curious to see what others have thought about with this campaign.