On Red Mage melee...

[Doombringer]

woe sucks.. drops get poached, and the droprate are less reliable than in aby. (sure, it can be time consuming to get 50 helms/skins, but at least when you kill sobek you get sobek skins.. in woe you could go all day and not get any of the RIGHT coins) woe is just to reliant on luck.

then if you have proper atmas and all/most abyssites of merit/furtherance... most emp nms are no harder than clearing a woe zone. honestly, sobek and briarius are duoable. and i'm sure somebody somewhere has soloed them. and gukumatz's KI can be goldboxed now..

AND they added more +2 items to sobek, and even a couple to briarius. so you could prolly get STRANGERS to help you out.

i would say, unless you can solo woe, well... it's not worth it. because as soon as you step up to a trio or even a duo, you now have the manpower to build a real almace. it's not hard, it's just time consuming. the real problem with the fake emps is that they can end up just as time consuming if not worse due to the random nature of WoE.

honestly i don't think we do woe "right". seems to me like it was supposed to be the new campaign. something strangers do together, with one happening near constantly, and the chips fall where they may. but since abyssea is so much more popular, woe is a dead event, and you're not getting any coins without a significant effort. a significant efort put towards a weaker weapon.


that being said, don't let me be the party shitter. if you can get a badelaire easily, do it. CdC is a huge buff, no matter where you get it from.