Quote Originally Posted by TheFatHousecat View Post
You mean the goal of completing the most interesting storyline in the game, which the dev team spent millions of dollars making amazing and exclusive cutscenes for, before 3.0? Don't people usually play Final Fantasy games for the story? That seems like a pretty huge motivating factor to me.

Also, 'generic' gear that, according to the census, only 2-5% of the NA/EU population is wearing? If that gear is generic, what does it make the stuff you wear that literally every level 50 character has easy access to? Are you only calling it generic to delegitimize it because you don't have it and don't want others to feel special for having it? (And BiS is worth a lot more than 1%- I'm not sure why this common logical fallacy still persists to this day. Do you even numbers bro?)

The bottom line is, if it really is just a matter of you not having or wanting to spend the time acquiring it, that's fine and understandable, no one can hold that against you and you could leave it at that. But you're attacking it and the achievement others feel by obtaining it. What's the point of that?
Firstly, I say that hiding the lore behind the hardest content in the game was a stupid decision, and it makes me just give up on it because it's not worth the headache of trying to find a static full of people who aren't total a-holes (which has been horrifyingly difficult in my experience). I'd rather do story light repetitive content with friends and people I like being around even though I wanna know what happened.

Secondly, Dreadwyrm gear is generic that that it is generic by MMO standards. It is tacky, gaudy, and is generic "powerul"; gold trim, sharp things everywhere, blah blah. Doesn't get more boring than that if you ask me which is sad, since the first and second coil gears look great still. Also BiS makes no difference practically except FOR the hardest contents in the game. Which you have to clear to get BiS. The vast majority of people I've talked to about it (which is just about everyone on my FL at this point) don't care at all.

By the same token; if you wanna try it, do it, then great, good for you. But the premise of this thread is an idiotic one. "Oh no not enough people are doing coil". Who gives a crap? If you wanna do it, do it. If you don't, don't. Not like the population has any obligation to care about it.