@Daemon: I think you are mistaken about REM. When people talk about REM, it has more to do with the items that damage dealers use rather than a mage REM. Mages can swap weapons as they are needed but DD can not do so. So, it doesn't really matter what kind of utility a weapon can do a DD. If you have another weapon that is vastly stronger in raw power then a DD will have to abandon their favorite weapon and go with the new weapon. You can easily see DD start equipping Delve weapons and less and less people are using REM. What's going on? As you said, REM should still be 'effective' but why aren't people using them?

Imagine you have to use only 1 weapon as a Whm and suppose that swapping weapons will prevent you from doing anything for 10sec. You will be split between using a cure potency weapon or sticking with yagrush. Would you still put all your efforts into making yagrush?

The problem isn't about how hard Delve is. It's about efforts and time and preference. SE doesn't make alternatives for Delve. There is no other option. Win Delve KI and battles or stay in your mog house. SE is trying to fix it by making Skirmish v2. Their mistake this time is making Skirmish v2 reward less powerful than Delve content. Let's face it, low-man content is all about luck. You either get the drop or you get nothing. SE has been trying to change that into a process that takes weeks or months (salvage, NNI) if you sort of failed to win the luck battle. However, since very few people doing Skirmish V1, it will be difficult to have people doing Skirmish v2. Why would people want to do Skirmish v2 when they can do something else and buy their KI/win on mega boss for better equipments?

Of course it would greatly depends on how easy it is to obtain your equipments in skirmish v2. However, considering how SE is setting this up, you will have to have certain sets of equipments from v1 and certainly some other equipments from other events before you can compete in Skirmish v2. What happen to people who doesn't want to join a large LS or alliance?