The new Allagan set of items needs to have a small customization option.

[SchalaZeal]

This statement is absolutely not true.

Read this part of my statement:

(and are willing to go with strangers in coil, even if they're "good" strangers - I know I'm not except to fill holes in my static).

And yes, this includes going with the same "good strangers" every week and making them your static. If you met them through PF or the likes, definitely not how I work.

Also, you have to clear T5 to run T6, every single week. And even if by chance you managed to clear T5, 6, 7, 8, 9 every single week, you could be gear-less for months anyways. Because RNG. Crafted is costly but at least the gear itself is guaranteed, and materias have no lockout.

Edited to add:

And lastly I PREFER CRAFTED. Yes, seriously. If Vanya didn't have to compete with Argute and Summoner and Allagan gear, I might have actually went ahead and crafted and penta-melded myself an entire i70 set. But seeing as the cost was so high (before philo mat quantities got reduced, and consider penta-melding accessories being millions each) it took me long enough that I was i80 by the time I had the funds, I simply gave up on it and saved the money for housing, since it was 2.1 then.

I did have my Astral accessories, melded with a single VIT IV materia each. My Summoner still uses them to this day (and thus has 4900 HP with party buff and food, even if "only" i80).

I'm convinced that crafted i90 gear will have more longevity due to competing more with i100 than i110 except in the domain of bragging rights. That is, going full-90 won't gimp myself the way going full-crafted-70 would have last patch. Not that I "do" randoms.

[NeoAmon]

You have to clear T5 to run T6, every single week.

News to my eyes. As far as I know you only need to clear T1-T5 once to complete the current quest and then be able to get the new one in 2.2.

So yeah, source please? I don't think SE would go as far as making sure T5 is a gate to T6.

As for 4900 HP, will it is your play style, more power to you. However, you only need 3900 HP as a caster without group buff or food to 7 man Twin.

except in the domain of bragging rights

Not really, it is because main stat makes Allagan 2 superior to crafted gear no matter what you meld. There is no amount of melding you can do that can cover the lose of 6+ main stat points per piece. That is why players want it.

[Galactimus]

Also, you have to clear T5 to run T6, every single week.

False. Beating Twintania for the first time complete's the quest ""Alisaie's Pledge." Completing that quest once is the only requirement for entering the "The Second Coil." It's not a repeatable quest so there's no reason why you'd have to complete it again each week. You also enter "The Second Coil" from a completely different npc; this time in North Shroud.