Quote Originally Posted by Claudeus View Post
I am really angry about how they solved the upgraded hexed/cursed gear.

As a owner of Huginn pieces, which cost dearly in effort to get, am I just going to enjoy a SLIGHTLY higher chance of getting a 119 HQ?! As well the farce about having to acquire the abjuration again to put the curse/hex back on the piece I need an UMBRAL MARROW just to put the damn curse back?

And they didn't think to add the currently worthless original abjurations to the curio vendor moogle so we more readily can use them to re-curse our stuff! C'mon, where's the logic in this?

I am just at a loss for words and with my stomach in knots over this. Please, please change this! Why not reward people who put effort into getting HQ hexed/cursed stuff!
Let me preface my reply by saying that I dislike this system as much as anyone else, so take my words as an objective response as compared to a "Oh, I like this!"

Umbral Marrows are surprisingly easy to get. I know I soloed ADL more than a handful of times in the past, and it's not terribly hard to do so these days. At worst, you can take a duo or trio and still do it fairly easy aside from the occasional Death shenanigans. Plus, with Dynamis being free entry, it's far less of a time gate than it was to get to ADL. I still think that it's silly to require such a thing, but it could still be worse.

Upgrading HQ to get NQ is a little ridiculous though. While I am happy they at least made it about 4x more likely by using a -1 over an NQ, it's still only like a 10% chance or so, definitely not something you'd want to burn a high-cost HQ on. At least with Legion being so readily available, perhaps materials will tank and we'll see a bit of a relaxation in prices. One can only hope. The system is still bad though.