Quote Originally Posted by Slickpig View Post
Completely agree! There were items in FFXI that I could just accept the fact that I was never going to have, and just enjoy the gear I had. But in this game, gear is so easy to get, you are expected to have the best. It's a shame really. It was ok not to have the best gear in 11, people for the most part didn't judge, unless you were way under geared. Much more variety of geared players in 11, everybody didn't look the same.
Agree 100%!

Even in early WoW there were items that took a long time to get and were really rare, giving them the "Legendary" status. Sulfuras and Windfury required to get past low drop rates in raid dungeons, crafting, as well as a long quest line to final build and obtain the legendary weapon. It reminds me of the relic quests, but they weren't literally given to you (also got crafters involved).

The original Ashbringer was going to be something like this, though it seems they killed the quest and it was forever stuck in it's corrupted form.