What ilevel gear will be dropped in Diadem 2.0?

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Originally Posted by Watachy

Never understood why someone that did not invest himself as much as others could have the same reward.

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Well, but that's never the measure we use, tho'. We always measure by performance, not effort or investment, which means that people with better endowment will get the same results and thus rewards with far less effort than those with worse endowment.

If effort or investment were what we measured, a half-blind, partially paralyzed 80 year old with only one arm would be on even terms with a healthy and quick witted 20 year old. That just isn't possible when measuring by performance, though. Similar applies for genetical differences - some people have weaker bones, better reaction times, better ability to memorize, worse attention span etc. Not even going into early childhood development which is also outside of your control and has a heavy influence on your later perfomance.

Thus, measuring performance always partially rewards you for being lucky in the genetical roulette/the circumstances of your birth. As such, I never understood why someone should be rewarded for that. The Anima is probably a lot fairer in that regard, since your performance mostly affects how quickly you get it, less whether you get it at all - Almost anyone can do it if they put in the effort.

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Originally Posted by Hasrat

I'm from the future, and can confirm it's mostly level 2 gear. Just 2.

/speculation

I genuinely don't understand why people come up with these threads expecting anybody to know facts that haven't been released.

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Because it's fun to make predictions?

I'am a raider, and with the last Diadem, I was exited, because I could have better gears with extra secondaries stats (it was like Jackpot in some way).
It was just refreshing compared to raids.
For this 2.0 version, I hope it would be appealing, rewarding and elaborate.
And, I will don't care about other if they reach the same ilvl as me.
Skills is what will differentiate us.

I'm expecting item level ranges of 230 to 265, with the best gear only dropping from the special raid bosses in the central crystal.

I'm curious as to what kinds of rewards the gathering missions will have to offer, though.

i265. Aetherial gear's substat potential is potentially better than everything else. You can get lucky and wind up with 3-4 substats whose combined total is a good deal more than the 2 substats on any i270 gear. If it was i270, the pieces with a good substat allotment would be inherently superior to everything else, like when Diadem was released with i210 gear. Taking ilvl down a notch, it still can be better than raid/tome gear, but by a smaller margin, and it would always have a little less vit/defense.

There's new aetherial weapons. They are really stingy with weapons, so its almost certain those won't be i270. Those will probably be i265. It will make up for that there's no new weapon from PotD.

The rest of the gear there will either be i265 or i270. They will be i270 if they really want to make sure people will be doing Diadem.

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Originally Posted by SuperZay

They must make it high ilevel enough to make the new Diadem popular instance, or it'll fail again and will never ever recover. But maybe not high enough to annoy raiders who worked hard for the same ilevel gear. So... i265? i260? Will certainly not bother going there if it's i255 or lower.

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Has Diadem every dropped weapons its tons of ways to get gear but weapons for multiple jobs is the main thing , Im sure it want but we dont need gear all the time

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Originally Posted by ServerCollaps

all raiders cried in douzens of threads, that their gear isnt BiS anymore and that they have to start playing the game again in order to get new BiS, which is nearly impossible because of rng anyway

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Id def beg the differ, who other than raiders said the jobs, are unbalanced and that pali and whm are horrible. It def wasnt casuals , nothing against raiders , I try my hand at it sometimes as well but this small majority definitely has some control over some of the changes that happen in the game

I would like to see other incentives besides gear, what if going forward the new relic quests... are all activities taking place in diadem. Like you'd need to kill that 50 man boss to get the upgrade crystal for the final step and some of the lesser NMs drop Umbrites and Crystal sand, and then one day on the highest peak you'll find yourself fighting on clouds with an airship docked nearby. I dunno, something cool

i280 gear and i290 weapons seems fair.