Gear design

So, I guess most people already saw the new The Feast season's reward.

http://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/lds/b...70802_yn_3.jpg

I was wondering, why do The Feast has the right to get amazingly designed gear, when we raiders just get the leftovers and ugly gears.
I don't care in getting this gear, I don't care if it's exclusive, but why in the world all the gear design goes for a minority of people and all the other gear are copy/paste of previous gear (aka latest craft gear, hello World of Darkness and SE's lazyness, and many other craft gear). Does SE only have 1 armor designer left? Only tomestones gear look original, and the latest one isn't even SE's creation. Please. I won't even talk about the summer's event gear, this goes in the same category.

Because the feast reward only goes to the top 100 in their respective data center (or even worldwide idk)

So between 100-600 people will have it ever, and it NEEDS to look good otherwise there's no incentive to try to get to those ranks.

Raiding gets you better stats and unique fights along with personal enjoyment.

PVP gives nothing except personal enjoyment, hence people need to be incentivized to do it.

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Originally Posted by Aletin

Because the feast reward only goes to the top 100 in their respective data center (or even worldwide idk)

So between 100-600 people will have it ever, and it NEEDS to look good otherwise there's no incentive to try to get to those ranks.

Raiding gets you better stats and unique fights along with personal enjoyment.

PVP gives nothing except personal enjoyment, hence people need to be incentivized to do it.

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If people need to be incentivized to do a content then this content is a failure and should as well disappear.

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Originally Posted by Arutan

If people need to be incentivized to do a content then this content is a failure and should as well disappear.

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So people shouldn't get rewards for their effort, only entertainment?

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Originally Posted by Arutan

World of Darkness + Moonfaire

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You completely ignore the fact that the new crafted WoD gear and Moonfaire set are a dyeable versions of their original counterparts. I don't see an issue with SE giving us dyeable versions of gear that originally couldn't be dyed.

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Originally Posted by magnanimousCynic

So people shouldn't get rewards for their effort, only entertainment?

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It means reward are a plus and if people are doing a content only for the rewards then this content doesn't work.

What gets me is he claims the Feast fails for the fact it needs to be incentivized. Then? Would not the same be said for all our content? Would we do any of it, if it gave us nothing at all? OP. Your complaint goes both ways. If Raiding needs good gear to get people to do it then it fails and should disappear.

Regardless, the looks of the gear this turn around so far for us PVE types are little less appealing. (Appearance wise, I do like the AF3 stuff, beyond that... not much else.)

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Originally Posted by Arutan

It means reward are a plus and if people are doing a content only for the rewards then this content doesn't work.

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How do you know they're not doing it for the ranks or bragging rights? There's people out there who want to try and be #1. How would they show that off if there's nothing exclusive to tell people "I worked hard to earn these special items"?

It's the same argument as savage raiding. Why do they get exclusive items when PVPers just get the leftovers?

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Originally Posted by magnanimousCynic

How do you know they're not doing it for the ranks or bragging rights? There's people out there who want to try and be #1. How would they show that off if there's nothing exclusive to tell people "I worked hard to earn these special items"?

It's the same argument as savage raiding. Why do they get exclusive items when PVPers just get the leftovers?

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Ok now you're talking about exclusivity when I said I don't care. The whole point of my topic is why do PvP get cool gear design and PvE got crappy gear design.

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Originally Posted by Arutan

why do PvP get cool gear design and PvE got crappy gear design.

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Why can't PVP get good gear design? Since the PVP changes with SB launch all they get for Wolf Marks is glamour gear now.

Good that's what I want, it gives people an actual reason to play PVP more other than trying to get Exp to level up. Every time I tried to queue up for feast I never got in.