Variance in player skill is hurting FFXIV's itemization design.

[zosia]

I don't have to.

Raiders already get a higher item level to boot, so they are more powerful.
I simply see no reason at all to further INCREASE the already existing gap.
*chuckles* It's kinda awkward, but reading your posts reminds me of myself when I was a mythic raider.Ofc everything else seems mindless from our raiding Ivory towers. (excluding high end PvP, which is actually A LOT harder than raiding)

I also do agree with you that the difficulty of the current 4mans is rather underwhelming. It's barely possible to wipe in there anymore. :/

Still, once you leave the raiding scene, yet still like the game as such, you will begin to understand where we "dirty casuals" are coming from.

There is no gap, By the time most raiders are close to being 240, welfare city comes out and everyone can be 240 in a matter of weeks. There is only an illusion of any gap and it's at the raider's expense.

You know this game has a problem with raid rewards when other game developers call Yoshida out mid interview (looking at you Level-5 interview) on how bad the rewards are for savage difficulty. Keep sticking your head in the sand though, this game is so close to LoTRO status that it will go over the edge any patch now.

I don't even need to make an argument anymore, other game companies will do it for me every time the trash reward system for savage comes up in an interview.