Quote Originally Posted by wish12oz View Post
This event is based entirely on skill. If you're skilled you can clear enough floors to have a good win rate and finish acquiring all the gear pretty fast.
NO, this event is based entirely on LUCK. This is the exactly what SE said:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...82143#poststop. Specifically, let me highlight for you the exact words:

...As a general guideline, the system has been balanced in such a way so that once you have gotten used to it, you should be able to reach floor 60. If you try really hard, you can get to floor 80, and then if luck is on your side you will able to reach floor 100.
see that word luck, which is near Tanaka's favorite word, BALANCE? Skill alone is only supposed to get you to floor 80 and not 100th. What Tanaka failed to see that CHEATS can replace LUCK and hence, 100th becomes NO LONGER LUCK based when CHEATS can be used. Which SOME of US refuses to use, which some can agrue is foolish because clearly, SE doesn't give a damn that MOST (noticed I didnt' say ALL) ppl who are beating 100th with any consistency are ALL using CHEATS.