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I've been to Diadem 6 or 7 times now and I've seen two "really good" i210 pieces drop - and they're really only good because they offered a combination of secondaries otherwise unavailable. I would say farming Savage is still relevant, and if you can't get past AS3/AS4 going into Thordan EX is still a good way to spend time. Void Ark gives a few really good secondaries on pieces at i200 which is still a nice upgrade over some pieces & provides a guaranteed upgrade.
People certainly are blowing Diadem drops out of proportion - same with the shouts you see about "Dino"isle. If Square notices people flocking to certain content and certain methods of completing that content they're going to get a clearer picture of their playerbase. If they see a substantial number of people taking part in Diadem and continuing to avoid Savage Alexander, and they see people investing in Anima Relics over Gordian or Thordan weapons they'll know what the majority of players want content wise.
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Even if you seem to have poor luck seeing good 210s drop (because both times I went in I saw marvelous 210s drop for whatever job/equip slot they rolled as) the fact that you have an infinite source of 210s at all is a huge shift in the meta. Also I have to wonder if people reporting "bad luck" in Diadem are even doing it efficiently/"correctly" to begin with.
Previously virtually everything was on lockout and unless you were in an Alex Savage static that had various floors on farm you didn't have access to any 210s whatsoever; with a Savage static you might get a 210 piece once a week if you were lucky but you could have to wait anywhere from 4 to 8 weeks to get a 210 depending on what you were looking for. We knew there would be alternate ways to get 210 eso stuff and we also knew that 210 aetherial gear would be a thing but we didn't know it would turn out quite like this.
So now you could gear every job in 210s of any variety (and since this game's stat weights are junk anyway if you don't have a 210 for that slot you might as well take it since the primaries on 210 will generally make it more attractive than the difference in secondaries compared to 200s -- not to mention Diadem is the only way to get BiS in the current patch) by just wasting your life in a mindless grind. It takes zero skill and very little coordination to have an effective diadem farm - go in with a premade that understands how full credit works (tag a mob to turn it red for full cred, burn down purples based on highest rank mob with most HP remaining to ensure full cred on stuff that matters, tag NMs if you can to turn them red or otherwise burn them for your gold coffer, repeat until the time runs out) and it's no exaggeration to say you could be rolling on 100 or more items per run, and if you're doing it on Hard mode more of them are going to be 210s and the 210s are going to be better (but even on Normal mode 210s still drop from gold coffers and still roll with better allocations than raid/tome 210s).
Hell, most groups don't even bother with objectives even though it could net them 40 "free" eso since eso is so worthless now; even if you buy an eso piece you still have to put in the effort to obtain an upgrade item (Void Ark giving you one once a week is nice but getting anything else requires either an investment in an even worse grind - Hunts - or being able to clear A2S/A3S and winning the drop on the coat/twine or saving up manifestos to trade in). Might as well spend the time it would take to complete the objectives on trying to pop and burn one more NM for another chance at a gold coffer.
Remember, sooner or later EVERYTHING is going to be a dull grind (again), but Diadem will be the only dull grind worth doing - meaning if you actually like something about other content, well, good luck finding people to run it.
It just begs the question of why anything else is on lockout.
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I don't know about anyone else, but I like the mayhem that is Dino Isle, was a big fan of Diablo, so I enjoy the Random stats and chance to see some really sweet gear, and that I can farm titanium ore all day without having to proc hidden items on nodes. All in all Diadem rocks.
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I agree that the chances of getting good gear is not that great its just a fun activity outside of raid I personally enjoy it. Got one pretty nice ring for my pld.
49 Vit 10 acc 21 crit 12 det skillspeed 15
Other than that everything has been crap. Mostly 1 stat with mains which 9/10 is accuracy.