So which is it Yoshi?

[Sephirah]

Yoshida, you say in your reply to crafting:

Preserving the Appeal of Dungeons

While there are a variety of ways to enjoy FFXIV, the desire to become powerful is a great motivator for many players. In particular, the impressive weapons and armor obtainable by triumphing in high-level PvE encounters attract many players to take on these challenges.

If the same items were made craftable, some players might find it easier to save up their gil, robbing them of this motivation to undertake the game’s toughest battles.



I realize this is a worst-case scenario. In a perfect world, it would simply be another option, and players would have the choice of either fighting or saving money to obtain their desired gear. Unfortunately, this remains a concern.

Just replace the word craft and this is exactly the dilemma we have with getting allagan equivalent gear with myth stones that can be farmed from AK.

Ensuring Item Rarity

We also believe that the strongest gear available at a given time should not be obtainable by all players.
As of Version 2.0-2.1, this position is held by the Allagan gear that may be won by completing the Binding Coil of Bahamut. With only the most skilled of adventurers able to complete this challenge, many others must settle for obtaining high-item-level gear via tomestones while biding their time, waiting for the difficulty of this battle to be eased.

But in your myth stone post, you said:

• Play through the Binding Coil of Bahamut and obtain gear from drops.
• Collect Allagan tomestones of mythology to exchange for gear.

Although these methods are different, each allows for the acquisition of level 90 gear.

In short, players who have ample time to play are free to collect tomestones, or challenge the Binding Coil, and those who have less time can still acquire tomestones at their leisure. Despite the difference in time available to players, the game is designed so that everyone can potentially obtain item level 90 gear.

Again, the myth gear is JUST as good as the Allagan gear, infact, "BiS" combinations require a combination of the 2, nobody is going to wear full allagan and nothing else. "Exclusive" in this case means nothing more than appearance...

I'm really worried you guys are making this game TOO casual friendly. I have no problems with casual players, and think they deserve to enjoy the game as much as anyone else, but there needs to be incentive for "end-game" or "hard-core" players.

There seem to be conflicting statements being made...