FFXI fixed!

[Arcon]

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.

You never gave a solution. You told us to suck it. That is very different.

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.

I already told you twice why it doesn't compare. And I gave reasons for it as well. Although the complexity of it seems to be beyond your understanding. Tl;dr, a greater reward possibility is inherently different from a greater reward. That's not up for debate. If you don't get that, you have no place arguing here.

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.

I'll tell you what's a contradiction. You're telling people that we only want good items to show off. Then you tell us that we should just get the same gear in a different color, which is good for absolutely nothing other than showing off. Better gear has a purpose. Different colors don't. They are just to show people how good you are. That's the definition of showing off. You suggest this and at the same time belittle people for it. That's a contradiction.

(Also, logic can't be contradicted. Your perpetually bad choice of words does not help your agenda.)

Better gear does reduce the challenge quantitatively, but not qualitatively. Fights may go faster, require less cures, maybe even one less DD if everyone's decked out. That does not reduce the actual challenge though. You'd still have to have people who know their shit, who know what to do at all times, even when things go south. You still have to map out a strategy, know what the working setups are, assign people to different tasks, etc. Gear does not win fights, never. We never asked for content that requires the best gear. We asked for content that requires skill. And better gear does not remove the need for skill.

Don't believe me? Take an alliance with a VW mentality and pop JoL. Not AV, JoL. See how far they'll get.

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.

I bolded the terribly wrong part. You can't seem to wrap your head around the fact that that's no incentive to play better. Also, it is still not a display of skill. I can farm Dynamis as fast as possible and it still requires no strategy, no reaction to bad situations (because there are none), no skill. When there's no challenge involved, every achievement seems lackluster.

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.

But that's the thing you're too daft to understand: Joe pink can get it. No one is suggesting HNM-style competition that inherently excludes others. It's not that if some guy is a good player others can't be too. There's no limited supply of player skill in FFXI that some people just have more of. Everyone should get a chance, everyone should be able to. But everyone should be required to work for it, and I don't mean by grinding 10k of X or 30k of Y. I mean by improving so that they are good enough to get it eventually.

Your argument can be applied to the entire game: "That Lv35 guy can't do Dynamis? Then everybody doing it is excluding him, obviously." That statement is inherently flawed. He's just not on the right level to do it yet (in this case literally). The same can be said for Joe pink. No one is stopping him from participating. But he may not be on the level to win it yet. But no one's stopping him from getting there either. It may just require work on his part.

wow, this is still going on. I can only think of 1 thing tbh:

You obviously can't think much.