materia > raids?

[CTSwiftheal]

Yup!

I am very disapointed with this. Many linkshells have spent many hours in the dungeons collecting gear, that is barely better than some crafting gear, in preperation for new content to come. Now we will have to dust off our old gear or replace the crafted peices we sold to enhance it with materia. Crafted weapons are argueably the same as (HQ crafted weapons are better) batraals' drops and now those rare/ex peices become wasted inventory slots, can not even convert them to materia.

All i can do is hope that the next generation of rare/ex drops from dungeons to come are balanced with this new system. Ill still do the dungeons, but the replay value would be decreased to the point of "Why bother?" if the rewards are mearly for looks. I do understand that raid content is not for everyone. For me raid content is where i can learn about my teamates and the people i surround myself with. Demzal Darkhold made my linkshell stronger, not with items but through understanding eachother and working together.

I understand that the way it is now the dungeon gear takes endgame crafted items out of the picture. When the dungeon was released i was hopeing for things like what the Roaming NMs were giving us. Broken peices that could be crafted and possably HQed. Killing the Great Buffalo for a Bloody Lance Head then gathering materials and having it crafted was one of the best experiances for me. Not only did it satisfy my need to kill big stuff, it also brought many people from Disiplins of War/Magic, Hand and Land into the process.

I can see how the new system is trying to revive the usufulness of the Disiplins that have been left out of "endgame". I just hope that somewhere in patch 1.19 we have some content that i can enjoy on a group level with replay value.

[Anon]

Yup!
All i can do is hope that the next generation of rare/ex drops from dungeons to come are balanced with this new system.

I hope they do too but that's still very unfair that our current dungeon gear will be obsolete so quick, I don't see a crab +3 (my favorite example yes) going out of style anytime soon why should the darkhold gear be made into scraps so quickly? aside from not even being convertible into materia, you can't use it on lower level classes, or sell it. it will become pure vendor trash. I also don't believe they'll update the current gear to match the new system for fear of angering people.