Diadem Gear > (Alex Norm / Savage, Crafting, PVP, VA, Extreme primals, tome) gear?

[Vaer]

Wouldn't surprise me if this gear is a weird preview of what stats gear can have when they add the materia slots to tome gear whenever they do.

[Pluvia]

Meh not like diadem gear will matter in 3.2 normal alex will drop 220 gear, tomestone gear will be 230 and alex gear will be 240

[MasamuneBranford]

Diadem gear can be great and can be bad. What if is better than savage? Who cares?

I'm not a raider. I don't play even close enough. However - I can certainly see how raiders would be upset and it's clear that you're missing the point. Top raiding groups pride themselves on being amongst the world's first. Not my cup of tea - but I will always respect another's hobby.

Where you're missing the point is that the gear from Diadem can be better than raiding gear. This means that when the next patch arrives - there will be some raid groups that are in a "better" position from day one than others based purely on RNG. The best raid group in the world might get horrible Diadem drops and the second best raid group might get countless miracle drops giving them a huge edge next patch. Hardcore raiders are now forced to grind Diadem if they want a shot at being world first next patch rather than playing the content that they enjoy. The random stats that are better than raid gear is an issue.

[Tyla_Esmeraude]

Isn't there an achievement + title, and a mount or minion that is exclusive to Savage Alex? Wouldn't those be the incentive you speak of?

Mmmm, I don't think there's an achivement/title atm for beating it as far as I know. I also don't care about the mount, not my type, heh.

[Fyce]

My static cleared a4s 9 weeks ago. One hour inside diadem nm and we changed a scholar chess with crit and a 210 dex ring with crit better than eso ring. Effort? zero, nothing, just killing crabs, gorilas and rex's. It's a mindless grind.

So, in short terms, you want some gear to be the best for two consecutive patches. You want raid gear to stay the best for half a year before having to replace it with... new raid gear.

You should start to wrap your mind around the idea that raid gear is the best only for the current patch before having alternatives or better replacements the next one, or you'll be disappointed every time an odd numbered patch comes out.

How can you promote Alex Savage clears if you are gifting gears without effort?

Not everyone cares about big numbers on their shiny armor. Some people do it for the feeling of achievement and the battle itself.
It's sad that I have to explain that to a raider.

[rappa]

Eh, even the twines coming from Void Ark and Hunts is kinda shitty. No need to deal with annoying Livid Liquid, just wait a few months and you can get it with less time invested and less effort. I could've just unsubbed and come back to easier to obtain twines instead of banging my head against the wall with my whole static on A3 for quite a while. There is no incentive to do Savage now, not even for bragging rights as some say as the sole reason people do Savage (hint: it's not the main reason, else we would've seen more interest in Coil Savage). Now that we are onto AS4, I see not much reason to do it if we can just wait for the relic, heh.

With Coat and twines you get "same" gear as a raider. A raider with gordian pieces have better gear than non-raiders.
The point is, you don't need to raid, Diadem could be better than esoterics gear and gordian gear.

The fact, Weapons like heavens bow in thordan EXT is better than Esoteric weapon.

[Iagainsti]

SE is doing bad if they let diadem pink gear with good rolls can be better than gordian or eso.

How can you promote Alex Savage clears if you are gifting gears without effort?

Take 3 months break, back to 3.3 and LF diadem "i want free gear".

[Nemesis4567]

Why would anyone complain over something that is accessible and solo friendly? Do people just do it for the sake of just creating a thread that is gonna end up in arguments?...it's Just beyond me...

Lately this forum is full of complaints over Petty stuff...

Diadem gear can be great and can be bad. What if is better than savage? Who cares? (Waiting for the deluded elitist wannabes to come in and tell me that they put soooo much efford to get it and blah blah blah) move on and be happy and enjoy the game

Totally agree with everything you said. Fitting, that your name is Mature. As that was one of the most mature posts I've seen on here. Besides, I always felt that the true prize for beating savage was more bragging rights and less on gear.

[rappa]

So, in short terms, you want some gear to be the best for two consecutive patches. You want raid gear to stay the best for half a year before having to replace it with... new raid gear.

You should start to wrap your mind around the idea that raid gear is the best only for the current patch before having alternatives or better replacements the next one, or you'll be disappointed every time an odd numbered patch comes out.

2.0 - 2.1
Mixed Myth and Allagan > full myth gear

2.2 - 2.3
Mixed Soldiery and High allagan gear > full Soldiery gear

2.4 - 2.5
Mixed Dreadwyrm and Poetics gear > full poetics gear

3.0 - 3.1
Full Diadem gear with good rolls and RNG > Mixed Esoterics and Gordian > full Esoterics.

Now sum the effort to get allagan gear - high allagan gear - dreamwyrn gear and Gordian gear against faceroll NM and stars monsters.
One type of gear need you to improve, to be a good player, the other one, just a ship, RNG and good rolls.

[Felis]

I want to know. What is the point to raid 3.2 if in 3.3 we would know Diadem v2 could have the same gear or better?

materia meldable raid gear