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

[zosia]

Stuff in bold = my answers to your statements.

So why exactly are you blabbering on about: "Waah waah upgraded lore gear invalidates raid rewards!!11"?

Also: please read the edited information. I already gave you the proof you wanted in regards to WoWs item level distribution.BTW: I do think this will be the last post I can write for today, so I will edit in any remaining answers. Congrats to the idiot that came up with limited post counts per day on a discussion board lol.

If you honestly must know why i care so much, its due to the fact that I raid lead. I have to deal with these motivations and when it comes time to replace someone (due to one reason or another), it saddens me that the raid talent pool keeps shrinking. I see raiding in wow, and it seems to almost had a resurgence at different points (as well as low points). Raiding in this game has only been getting progressively worse. Less people with more challenging content is only going to lead to a slow death, one that might be unavoidable at this point.

I want better raid incentives so I don't have to constantly keep motivating people. I want better incentives so people actually want to raid in this game rather than waiting for catch up patches. I am at my brink with raiding in this game and honestly think it's just better to sub for the last few months of an xpac when you can just DF +40% echo all of the content. I really think this game is going to end up such that people sub for a month for the story and unsub for two months until the next patch drops.

Zosia , Gordias savage came about because of the demands of the raiding tier. And in order to keep gordias its pie in the sky reward SE had to screw with other non raid content. The raiding scene was hurt the most, but they were the only ones affected by it.

As long as SE looks to favor raiding over everything else without other content on the wings, non raiding content can suffer because of it.

I agree, Gordias was just bad for the game. For everyone. What hurts one group, hurts the other. I even tried to create a peaceful olive branch thread back in august when gordias was taking statics out of the game at alarming numbers.

We need gear progression for all players, but we need to be fair about effort vs reward. I don't expect to ding 60 on WVR to follow up with doing 3/4 star crafting the week after. There needs to be a sense of progression for all with a fairness considered for those who get their first or put in more time than I do.

Lunch time over, o/