FFXI Job Direction?? Dev Team, Please Respond.

[Sparthos]

Has nothing to do with numbers.

VW loot doesn't justify it's existence. You have a few "good" pieces here and there but overall you're better off sitting in Abyssea where everything falls into your lap rather than chase down hard mobs with not so diverse lootpools for minor upgrades if any at all.

T1s only have one unique drop and if you don't get it? You get garbage.
T4 has some unique armor but it's exceedingly rare and yet again if you don't get the unique drop, you're utterly screwed. The initial awesomeness of the top tier mobs is ruined by opening the chest to be rewarded with random jewels and other placeholder garbage.

If there's one thing about XI that's remained constant is events where loot is not in abundance fall to the wayside after the gung-ho shells run through it and get a taste of what the gear situation is like. Not even knocking it for its complete copy/paste of a previous event (ANNM), it seems SE fell right back into the claptrap that doomed such events like VNM and Moblin Maze Mongers with Voidwatch.

ZNM? Good rewards, plenty of rewards.
Nyzul? New sets, improvements over previous gear.
Voidwatch? Side-grades +1, copy/paste content.