Quote Originally Posted by Olor View Post
What's the good reason? For most of the rest of FFXI's history best-in-slot gear was spread over a great number of events. Why now make it so most of the best gear only comes from one event, an event that is VERY RESTRICTIVE in terms of what jobs can participate.

I miss abyssea era where there was plenty of really good gear you could get with a couple friends on any job they wanted to come on. This SAM BRD WHM MNK RNG only era is depressing and it's directly tied to the fact that the devs are releasing content with generally crummy rewards, and ALL the content is aimed at the same kind of party set up and job balance has never been worse.
The reason is so that they don't invalidate all the content they just put out by increasing ilevel? Who would want to do any of these bc's or any delve content for gear if you can just get i120+ from the new content? They wanted to keep some longevity to the content.

I honestly don't remember that in Abyssea unless you were one of those bst that took 3 hours to solo a mob with your invincible pet. Everyone else did it more efficiently by bringing the correct jobs. There was a bandwagon at that time too if you didn't remember, most people wanted to bring NIN WHM MNK THF and BLM barely any other jobs were considered. Most people even soloed everything with mules during that era to keep all the drops to themselves. If you think Delve is restrictive then you are nuts... You can practically destroy any delve zone with any DD job as long as you have a conventional support line.