I would think you would want the challenge of collecting KI's and Upgrade items to be balanced with how potent the weapon is. The more potent Empyrean Weapons would come from the more challenging KI sets & NM's.
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I would think you would want the challenge of collecting KI's and Upgrade items to be balanced with how potent the weapon is. The more potent Empyrean Weapons would come from the more challenging KI sets & NM's.
Look, no matter how you look at it, it is not a challenge, IT IS A BIG MASSIVE GRIND. Simplifying the KI sets would help to remedy this grind to be more bearable. And yes a lot of these empyrean trials in abyssea are unbalanced, some are very easy, and actually quite powerful, example samurai and ranger/corsair path. While others are saddled with NMs with excruciating paths that will take you much much longer to complete. I don't think this is balanced. Unfortunately, the current team is done with abyssea contents, I doubt they will revisit or tweak it, even if we continue asking for this. Abyssea is a grating reminder that the previous team lead by Yoshi did a greater job at creating a successful content. But one should never give up hope :)
I can kinda see where they tried to balance the different paths at different stages. While Vere is hell to get to the 80 stage, the 85, and 90, trials are much simpler. Kannagi starts out easy as pie but Apademak is a pain in the rear. Except for Guku, Sobek is pretty standard difficulty for Abyssea. It's still stupid and unbalanced, don't get me wrong, but I can see where they sort of tried... a little.