Diadem broke the game

[Derio]

Dont forget the mount from diadem. And with tank queues being long for void ark and the entire queue being messed up for ex roulette. Diadem is the best option.

[Hakuohsama]

ranged or melee?
1 hour queue time sound like a DF bug to me. My queue time as MNK is around 5-15 minutes

With my Bard i can wait 1 Hour + and nothing pops up.

[Rufalus]

PF is full of Diadem on your world? Things are balanced on mine, people are doing plenty of the classic style content still.

I saw this coming, reading how Diadem offers the best rewards, I was trying to hype people for it before the patch released so we'd have lots of groups to join on my world and I could ride that farm train to i210 random stat gear and hordes of material.

I am surprised that they even let you choose exactly which material you want to buy -- that changes things massively. They only withheld the grade V material for craft and gather; if they didn't I'd be forced to gather there for hours to super-meld my crafting classes, so it's probably best they left those out.

[Elisewin]

The problem is again the same: diadem rewards the brainless game, because stick with a zerg and just kill everything is playing in zombie mode.
This is disturbing? Not really to me, I don't like to farm mobs so I won't enter in Diadem unless some friend of mine ask me to join them.
So, since I prefer to do raids or doing things that ask me to think about what I'm doing, I'll just continue doing raids and who cares about people with full pink 210.


The only thing that disturbs me is that Diadem had the potential to be a better feature.

[NovaLevossida]

Diadem is great under perfect conditions. Anything else, including duty finder, and it's basically the worst current content in the game by far in terms of design flaws ruining it.

[AeraLure]

why blame the diadem? its just the raid and dungeon should providing more reward than nerfing the diadem. really other than direct gear, normal/roullete dungeon doesnt drop anything right now, no rare material, nothing.

dungeon should give something to grind, not only minion, but give them glamour material/gear material too, or give them super rare equip that 10/15 ilvl ahead the usual gear drop. lack of grindable thing is a problem in this game, diadem is alive because a lot of people doing that over and over again because they want i210 or want pegasus. is there any reason for a player doing dungeon over and over again? no, a chance for a minion drop is not worth the time.

^ This. Diadem is the first place that rewards you for playing it over and over. You might get a 210 piece you can use for any job you have (or your main if you play need-only), but you'll definitely at least get some trade-ins. Compare that to pretty much anywhere else - Void Ark offers the weekly token and EX daily allows the weekly eso cap. Do those and you are done for the day/week. Aside from those, everything else (except A4S and Thordan EX for weapons) is glamour. The game actually needed something like this imho and needs more (though we need more raids too - end game is anemic). That's not to say, though, that it doesn't have its own problems (it's tedious with no mechanics or worthwhile objectives, you're punished if some of your party leave to gather due to the claiming system, can't cooperate with Alliances).

[Laerune]

You cant blame the players, Void Ark is a weekly and Alexander Savage is something most players can not do. So this leaves the Diadem for players to join and do.

[StrejdaTom]

I am the party influenced most I guess (savage raider, so I should be pissed that this faceroll content gives so much for no effort) but for me Diadem is one of the best additions so far. I didn't try it trough DF and I definitely won't, but hard with FC or even party finder is quite fun. It reminds me of old grind parties like in Lineage II etc. and it really hits the spot for me. I honestly wouldn't nerf Diadem, I would make other content more appealing.

At this moment I really don't care that people are getting same gear from faceroll dungeons, hunts, Diadem etc. as long as there are ways to find out if people cleared A3s for example so I don't end up in static with someone who has no experience but only gear.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I really should try rolling my face on a keyboard if things are as easy as people say.

[Gamer3427]

Personally, I find the Diadem to be my least favorite part of this patch. I enjoy the killing of hunt targets, and the clusterf*** of everyone swarming Dino Island, but unless you get 210 drops, get them in the roll, and they happen to be something you can use, the rest of the drops are pretty pointless except for possibly gearing up your other classes. This is particularly evident with the Star ranks which only seems to give chests to whichever party that spawned them based on my experience, which means that when one pops up it's a matter of "am I fighting this to get rewarded, or am I wasting my time?". Aside from the pegasus mount, items for crafters, and materia, there's nothing really available in the spoil shop. I might be more interested if there was a unique gear set for each class that was i205 or better, or had a good look to it, but right now there's nothing to warrant dealing with the frustration of the Diadem from a combat perspective.....

As for from a gathering perspective, as a fisher, there's practically no point at all in the Diadem. I've only found two fish that I can catch there that I can't catch elsewhere, and one of those is completely worthless on the MB. More-so, there's even less incentive to try and farm for the Steel spoils, because the only thing I can get that benefits my fisher directly is small amounts of bait that I can farm Blue Scripts for far easier.....

My point is that from my perspective, the Diadem hasn't broke the game, but is completely broken in and of itself. As for the OPs argument, I somehow doubt the Diadem is the reason for que issues. The half hour wait time between runs is enough for people to be doing dungeon runs, and the Que for Diadem itself is seemingly infinite for Easy and can get up there for Normal depending on the time of day. I've also had no que issues with the level 50 roulette or Void Ark, it's just been the Expert roulette for me, which is clearly broken at this point. I haven't had a chance to try queing for some of the other roulette like the Leveling or Level 60 roulette, so no word on whether they're alive or not.......