Quote Originally Posted by zosia View Post
If I am lead producer that does not want to create ilvl disparities but I know I need to increase raid rewards, I would, of course, choose to double down on cosmetic rewards.

I would put into this game some of the best looking raid sets that the player base has ever seen and I would gate them behind savage. That's how games like GW2 operate. Since gear is virtually meaningless, the best cosmetic rewards come from challenging end game content. I would bet 10 million gil on the notion that this is the kind of conversation Yoshida is having with his team about 4.0 as we speak.
We do actually already have a loose precedent for this in the rewards from The Feast's ranked mode.

Admittedly it's hard to say that's hard evidence that they'd move in that direction, because PvP's rewards in general are even less impactful than Savage's due to the item level caps, but it does show that they're willing to institute glamour sets as the ultimate reward for a particular type of content.