I'm sort of anti the whole "empyrean is average, no emprean is below average" thing. But that's basically stemmed from when I didn't have access to the game when a lot of abyssea shit was happening, returning and then having to play some SERIOUS catch up by myself as I'm 12hrs out of my LS's timezone (and they dont do abyssea anymroe anyway).

Basically, I don't like being called below average just because I got a late start and haven't got an emprean weapon yet. (Not that I'm not working on it, farmed 6 CC sets 2box so far today and will probably farm 2 more before I go to bed.)