Quote Originally Posted by Alahra View Post
The end result is that the i250 crafting gear is likely going to have plenty of value, especially for hardcore raiders, who are going to want to get the sets as soon as possible without fighting against the RNG of Wondrous Tails.
Honestly, I'm just irritated that they've taken an already niche market, and pretty much taken away from it... I can make the best i220 gear... That isn't saying much, i220 was very quickly irrelevant, pretty much only to hardcore raiders at the start of 3.2, but I could make the best version of that niche level... Prototype Midan gear was inferior... Now? Not the case with i250... Prototype Creator gear is still inferior, but I'm no longer making the best i250 gear... If I put some HQ i250 up for sale, and someone gets lucky and puts the same gear up off Wondrous Tails... Why would anyone buy my piece over the one with 100% success on penta melds?

I don't even have a reason to make i250 though... The market will be the same as it always has been, albeit with the rare Wondrous Tails sale taking a buyer away... Why do I care though? I've already got more Gil than I know what to do with... Savage is the only place item level and Gil seem to matter, and I just have zero interest in that... I can get i270 earlier than everyone else? Yeah, I don't care... I'm struggling to see a point in anything beyond i220 at the moment, and the game is very quickly going to be forcing i260 on me the same way it forced i230 on me... I have issues with Aquapolis and Palace of the Dead, but aside from PvP, they're two of the more enjoyable additions I can think of recently... All three of those have one thing in common though; Item level is irrelevant for them... Palace of the Dead out right omits item levels, while Aquapolis and PvP have fairly low item level caps... Heck, dungeons are starting to get item level caps...

It's a shame Diadem was a complete and utter flop... It could perhaps have justified higher item levels... The rewards just completely suck though, get a higher item level so I can farm i235 gear easily? Or maybe I want the minions and mount... Sigh, I really don't know what Yoshida was thinking with Diadem... I just don't think this development team has any idea how to do sandbox content... It's very apparent in PvP, where we have game modes like Secure and Seize, that people miss and want to do again, but the developers have taken a theme park approach to things, and Shatter has decommissioned the previous rides...