The initial NMs were panic installments of a floundering team. We can only hope that they have heavy materia slots, if there even is such a thing. Otherwise, yes. None of the first generation of NM gear will end up being relevant, as "hard" as it was to get. Every time the team wants to go kill mosshorn I'm like silently...why? Zero point. Unless we're just that bored with other NMs, which we honestly are.

It just....sadly....only served to buy time. Oh well. **** happens. You have to play the game in realtime. If you spend all your time preparing to have fun, you'll never actually do it. Those NMs were fun while they lasted.

Still, I agree. That gear should have been much better. The R35 gear blows half of it out of the water if you're not tanking, and can be soloed and duo'd. The faction NMs have ten times the cost and require twice the stopping power. I'm 1/7 on faction gear. I have better drop rate on prince of pestilence.

I think the first-gen NMs are just meant to be forgotten. Shame, really. At this point, I'd save my faction points up as opposed to blowing them on small chances at gimp gear...but it caps at 1000 points.