Quote Originally Posted by Radd View Post
So again, it comes back to what I posted the first time. They become a requirement, and are a long tedious grind to get just to play the game normally. Good. Now that player will just stop wasting his time and move on to something else while the community stagnates in it's own circle jerk and SE loses another customer.

They aren't supposed to be common, there are only so many these days because people have been playing this game non stop for years. Are you telling me that a person without one should play for years just to even have the chance to catch up to today's content, which will be outdated by the time they catch up and they have to do it some more? Do you get it now?
They are probably not supposed to be common, but you were around for Abyssea, Dynamis revamp, and Salvage revamp right? SE has introduced content that centered around building these weapons. And now a lot of people have them. You can argue about whether PT standards all you want, but the fact remains that enough people have RMED weapons that you can fill your Plasm farming DD spots with a single shout. I have not argued that it's right, but that's how it is right now.

Also, you don't have to play for years. You need an NM kill and 30k plasm and you're caught up, weapon-wise. You may not get in as a DD while you're first farming plasm, but that's because there are so many other players who are better geared than you. If you have a problem leveling and playing a support job in order to gear your DD job then this may not be the game for you.