FFXI R/M/E Thoughts:

[Damane]

This is a joke. So you guys are saying that old content must reward better loot forever? Like your job is done permenetly since you got your R/M/E? Nobody forced you to go after R/M/E and now theres a healthy option for everyone to be geared in this game.

So your proposal to SE is to force a dwindling playerbase to go after R/M/E weapons, so everyone has to go through that ordeal like you did (because ou wanted to do that, no one forced you) to be able to be decently geared?

Because we all know that the community has no space for 2nd best gear for endgame. So if depends on ppl like you every DD will have to go get a R/M/E weapon to be accepted for new content.

Genius.

i think you are understanding things wrong. i dont think vertical gear progression is bad, but the current rate of vertical gear progression we have atm is TOO fast for a game like FFXI that eats alot of time up just to organizing a group/ally to do the content. Imho they should do slight vertical progression jumps every 8-10 months while filling the gaps in between with decent horizontal sidegrades to specialize in. atm we are looking at vertical progression jump since adoulin was released on every 1-2months which is way too fast, people cant keep up. first skirmish, then delve, then skirmish 2.0 and everythign inbetween. People are haveing a hard time keeping up. I am caped on delve and skirmish 2.0 gear, but I also ran/run with a very good endgame shell.
The problem is you cant keep that up for every 2 months, it becomes a giant pain in the ass. Not to mention the huge inventory mess and at some point you would start wondeirng yourself why even do the hassle when you can restart in 2 months with it AGAIN.

EDIT: on the REM subject: I dont think REM weapons should be made overpowered, but they should be on par with boss delve weapons or very very very slightly ahead of them.