FFXI fixed!

[Ragmar]

The answer is still no. I gave a solution to fix it. If the lower tier normal players don't get a chance at the same items then it's unbalanced.

Listen, you can't understand this, the complexity seems beyond your understanding. The advanced hardcore does get better rewards. Think about it like this, if you fight an enemy that drops say twilight mail at 5% on normal mode and 25% on hardcore mode then the person doing the fight in hard mode has a GREATER reward possibility. Refer to quote #1 at the end of this post.

Special items aren't needed to supplement the difficulty. The only reason someone would want this is to show off themselves. Like Frank said if this is your goal make the damn armor another color. Giving it higher stats to make you better in turn makes you look weaker because your using the hard mode to make future fights easier mode. It's a contradiction of logic.

You can't seem to wrap your head around the fact that your going to be getting better rewards faster then Joe pink if you beat something in hard mode. Just because Joe pink can get it in easier mode from luck or hard work at a lower tier, it shouldn't make it less rewarding for you and your piers if the gear is still awesome sauce. Refer to quote #1 at the end of this post.

What you promote is in fact something that limits others so they need to do hardcore mode or GTFO. You see why your logic is so flawed. If Joe pink can't get it then it's merely an epen's piece for the upper echelon of the user base. This is why it excludes people which you cleverly stated you didn't want. Refer to quote #2 and #3 at the end of this post.

On a final note.. Please start paragraphing your WALL-O-TEXT, I might not have the best English or grammar skills but, I do seriously try to make things as understandable and convenient as possible to read. SEE all the edits?

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Increasing the drop rate 5% per tier does not mean that joe pink isnt going to get his RNG 1/1 while Mr. Hardcore elite won't go 1/100 (obvious exaggeration but point is still valid). You're asking for special treatment for people with less play time and less ability to complete content no matter what where as I am asking for content available for anyone. SE does not have to only make content my 5 year old can dominate nor should they.

As many times as you want to say its us who want gear to validate ourselves many of you have posted the fact and that is you who feel inadequate or envious when others can do things you cannot or have things you do not for whatever reason. That's like caping the score on a game like bubble breaker at 1 because if not everyone can reach that score they might feel inadequate.

You still can't see you are the one asking, by design, for others to have to play like you. There is always going to be someone with less play time or ability than someone else. You are asking for the bar to be set at your percieved level of casual when guess what there is always going to be someone who who percieves your level too high. This is how the game will be reverted to kindergarden levels, because someone will always think the game is too hard or takes an excessive amount of time.

You keep taking about "EVERYONE should be able to have exactly the same things" and under my suggestion they "can" have them. It is their own choice and based on their own ability which determines what gear they would have.