Should Alexander hard drop highest item level gear?

[Galdous]

The first of the two new tombstones will essentially be "Darklight 2: Electric Boogaloo". The baseline gear expected if you want to competitive in the new raid. The second can be expected to be just like your soldiery or poetics.

Now the real change is the normal vs hard mode of Alexander itself. Which can be seen as the normal or heroic versions if we're going to recycle terminology from other MMOs. I can see normal mode dropping gear, and the hard mode dropping slightly better gear, probably with the same look.

I do think Alexander Hard should drop "the best" gear available, as a immediately visible reward for the player's hard work and dedication to learning the fights. Even if its as much of a "Wow its nothing" stat increase like the whooping 5 extra ilvls on Coil Weapons.

Alexander normal should not drop gear that is near the best as hard mode. SE devs in an interview said that normal mode was made to be beaten by everyone within 1-2 days. So it is a tourish version of CT basically. At most it should drop a few tomes as a method to grind tomes if you dont like dungeons and not drop any gear whatsoever. It is meant for those who are upset they could not experience the storyline of the original Bahamut coils and do not want or cannot commit to a static. If anything Alexander normal should be a worse gearing up option then high end dungeons because of how easy it is meant to be.