Empyrean 90-95 trials

[Zumi]

You are out of touch. Since SoA the rates of VW have dramatically dropped off, and so to will the rates of plates coming in.

Whenever SE releases the 99 R/M/E boost people will see their 85-90 empyreans suck still and want to spam farm T3 Zilarts. Because many don't read the forums here people aren't doing so now.

However in terms of difficulty most people will do relics 99 because they are much easier to get.

[Mayoyama]

I feel that the 90-99 trials do serve the purpose of balancing out empy with R/M.. but the huge abandonment of VW for SoA content is going to create an extra artificial barrier to upgrading these weapons. Dynamis was revamped to make them easier to obtain, alex became a LITTLE easier by adding NNI/Salv2 as other potential sources but these too will suffer the same fate as vw (abandonned in favor of other content) - although having said that, SE was meant to have also done some sort of adjustment to tags/assaults about 2 years ago now... yet another thing added to the backburner.

The "logical" solution would be to either adjust (increase) the drop rates of HMP (and alexandrites tbh lol) and/or add more lowman/solo friendly options for those who want to put in the effort without needing to drag 12+ people with them.

SE already stated that R/E/M would no longer be top tier (instead being "comparable") so theres no reason to keep superficial barriers anymore.

EDIT: as for relics, I believe they're in the best position, as ADL will only end up becoming more and more easy to low man as stronger gear is introduced

[Zumi]

Also RMT spam ADL almost every single day and put so many marrows in the economy. Same thing can't be said about plates. They use drks cors, smn, sch. All the drks got the same gear too.

[Demon6324236]

Also RMT spam ADL almost every single day and put so many marrows in the economy. Same thing can't be said about plates. They use drks cors, smn, sch. All the drks got the same gear too.

Well I cant say they are all RMTs, or that any are really, I admit the same geared DRKs sound like it, but some names look real, Cornela, Jacksonwells, and Southwall for instance, and I know Swen used to run Qilin all of the time so I don't know that he is a RMT really, if he is then they do Plates too anyways. Point being, some may have RMT like characters or names and could be RMTs but I would not say they are all RMTs. :x

[Zumi]

Swen is a bst that wasn't with them just happened to be in the SS. They had 25 characters at ADL did several of them.

[Demon6324236]

LS color looked the same is all.

[Babekeke]

RMT rarely even use a LS, as they tend to all be sat in the same room. More than likely a few ppl using several mules. Looking on FFXIAH, a few of them seem very active and obviously have a few jobs levelled, whereas others have barely bought anything at all from AH.
Also, RMT tend to maximise the potential of their chars, by creating galkas to melee, tarus to mage. Rare, though not completely uncommon, to see RMT use mithras/humes/elvaan.

The main clincher is whether or not they have relics themselves I guess. If it is a few ppl and mules, the main chars will have relics, and it's unlikely that they'll bazaar the marrows. If it's RMT they'll all have AH bought gear (usually DUX for melees) and definitely won't have relics.

[Demon6324236]

Normally I would agree Babekeke but it is a bit weird most of their people look very similarly geared, I mean 3 DRKs with the Abyssea GS from that one Golem looks very odd...

[Babekeke]

Ah the one with the German sounding name? I can't really tell what it is from the pic, and I'm not very good with DRK gear either, but aren't they wearing empy gear? Unless it's basic empy gear and not upgraded, then I'm inclined to think that it's someone's mules. RMT prefer to spend as little time and gil as absolutely possible to gear themselves, and upgrading empy gear isn't part of their timescale usually.

[Demon6324236]

Yeah that GS, I just find it odd they all have that and similar gear, I mean yes its Emp Head/Body/Hands but still, seems odd to me, not so far as to say I would think they are RMTs, but enough to say it is weird.