Quote Originally Posted by Raenryong View Post
That's just how MMOs work though - certain gear will never be acquired by everyone, especially if they are not in a top tier guild. Even in FFXI, the vast majority of people were never going to touch a relic or mythic. A good chunk would never touch an Empyrean. In other games like Rift or WoW, only an elite few would touch the very top. Equality of opportunity, not outcome!
True, I could have started working on my Relic and so on over there in XI, but that's such a massive time-sink, if people think the ATMA and Animus grind is bad they need to go do that again. I just think it's unfortunate that once you hit 50, the tier progression goes like so: Darklight > Myth or Allagan > Weathered > High Allagan. There needs to be more "well for Weathered you can also go this route for this other gear, it won't be as easy to get, but it's different gear and it's still available to you outside of Soldiery" or something else that gives us more choices. Like for the Aetherial gear, best stuff you can find before 50 will be Aetherial. But once you hit 50 it gets completely phased out, could there be a chance to get level 70 Aetherial gear that's superior to Darklight but rarer? Very possible. After all, there's people going into HM Primals and CT for things with 100+ gear, it's not as if it would throw too much off if there was some alternate superior gear that was out there. All that matters is that it is out there, and ready to be acquired if you go for it.