Weapon aside, what do you think of the reworked diadem?

[Remedi]

@Imsoangry You made my point you see no improvements, and I bet everything I have you wouldn't have seen anything regardless, I'm really annoyed of ppl saying how is boring life while not adding anything to the conversation and just saying how it would have been better somehow.
There is no way to make a discussion with this premise. Also I didn't said ooooh the zone is perfect the best thing yet I've said a huge improvement which it is and tells you that my opinion of the earlier version was not that great, one can appreciate something while also see theflaws and by the way I'm not too happy about the weapons in there either and to tell you the truth I'm not enticed in them either because the whole RNG is stacked against me so high that doesn't make me want to get them.
So I'm not whiteknigthing anything I'm just saying that there were some huge improvements that could also be applied to the game outside if you what to udnerstand what I'm talking about go there and watch the difference in the zone between night and day, if not be my guest anyone can do whatever you want

[NessaWyvern]

I wish they had the old diadem loot system, with the boss fates and the mini-raid with the new diadem. *remembers the raging when people would roll on 210 gear they didn't even have a class leveled for* Uh... maybe not. I have always liked the diadem, but I am also part of the small community that loves chocobo racing, triple triad, and pvp. Verminion was fun too, but that died. :I

[Remedi]

Let's talk about mechanics we've observed so far.

- I've noted that 'Corrupted Sprites' have a chance of spawning after each successful fate, regardless of whether or not it involved a damage field. Killing one awards you a treasure coffer.
- 'Baby Brachiosaurus' occasionally spawn in the southwestern island. I witnessed a group kill one, which IMMEDIATELY spawned a fate I hadn't seen before, 'Slaughter of the Lost Legend', where you had to kill 4 of them in a 5 minute period. The group I saw failed that since there weren't enough people around, so I didn't get to see what happened for clearing it. (I did note from a separate run that the island is exactly where the adult Brachiosaur boss FATE spawns too...)

Day and night cycle influences enemy spawns and as such fate spawns
Predator-type enemy do predate on wildlife (t-rexes attacks triceratops which are docile mobs now, also purple worm is described as a monster eating anything and he attacks anything on sight)
Buried treasure are still a thing and can award completed lockboxes and damaged ones they are rolled though
Lastly I saw a giant pegasus running around and despawning dunno yet what he does however

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Rather dull with occasional highlights describes Diadem best. FATE grinding among the worst mechanic the devs insist on perpetuating despite vocal disdain from the community. Although Diadem attempts to offer some objective based missions, they boil down to killing trash mobs and farming fates. The only real standout is the unique super boss. Unfortunately, it gets bogged down by the near inability to coordinate with 71 other players. Should just one of them mess up and pull early, you're screwed. Sad to say, but I suspect Diadem won't let for more than a couple weeks if even that.

[Texa]

I've been having fun with it even though it's really frustrating to get the groups to focus on stuff after objectives are done. I don't think I'll have much to do after I get my pegasus though, I already had enough spoils for the minion and I'm at 77/99 now.

[Imsoangry]

You made my point you see no improvements, and I bet everything I have you wouldn't have seen anything regardless, I'm really annoyed of ppl saying how is boring life while not adding anything to the conversation and just saying how it would have been better somehow.

Your point is nothing outside of - anyone who dare to criticise this content is just ungrateful and brings nothing to conversation. I think I did bring much more than you - pointing out what I find to be bad in this new superb content that you're trying to defend so much. You brought absoluty nothing outside of claiming that Diadem got some HUGE improvements. I'd like to know what those huge improvements are.

You don't know me, so please stop assuming that I'd complain no matter what. I love this game and play from the very begining. I've always been supporting it and I can totally see improvements if they're made. I did appreciate how they improved Alexander. I did appreciate how they improved anima questline - giving you more freedom (compared to ARR relic). I did appreciate little things like wondrous tails. I did appreciate countless quality of life changes.
This - I just can't appreciate because no matter how hard you want to defend this, all points I've made in my previous post remain pretty solid. If you want to actually argue, then please use quotations and point out what you disagree with. As stated before, I can bet my 1 bilion gil, that this content will be dead in less than a month.

Point I've made about weapons wasn't made to simply cry about itemlevel. I actually don't care about it that much. Thing is - said weapon is THE ONLY real reason u'd want to grind this content. There is literally nothing else unless you count a mount (that some, including me got ages ago) and 3 minions total. You are whiteknighting indeed - as you jump on anyone who dare to dislike said content - just because you don't find it bad. If this content is so fantastic, why you even bother reading these threads and "getting annoyed", instead of actually trying to get that emergency mission to pop ?

Honestly, don't even bother replying if you have nothing solid to say.

[Bloody]

Fate-grinding in a special area to get stacks of stuff to do PotD randomized turn-ins, or if you get lucky, go kill a boss and pray for a minion. It's horrendously boring if you don't get emergency mission or boss fates to kill after finishing objectives.

[Remedi]

Your point is nothing outside of - anyone who dare to criticise this content is just ungrateful and brings nothing to conversation. I think I did bring much more than you - pointing out what I find to be bad in this new superb content that you're trying to defend so much. You brought absoluty nothing outside of claiming that Diadem got some HUGE improvements. I'd like to know what those huge improvements are.

You don't know me, so please stop assuming that I'd complain no matter what. I love this game and play from the very begining. I've always been supporting it and I can totally see improvements if they're made. I did appreciate how they improved Alexander. I did appreciate how they improved anima questline - giving you more freedom (compared to ARR relic). I did appreciate little things like wondrous tails. I did appreciate countless quality of life changes.
This - I just can't appreciate because no matter how hard you want to defend this, all points I've made in my previous post remain pretty solid. If you want to actually argue, then please use quotations and point out what you disagree with. As stated before, I can bet my 1 bilion gil, that this content will be dead in less than a month.

Point I've made about weapons wasn't made to simply cry about itemlevel. I actually don't care about it that much. Thing is - said weapon is THE ONLY real reason u'd want to grind this content. There is literally nothing else unless you count a mount (that some, including me got ages ago) and 3 minions total. You are whiteknighting indeed - as you jump on anyone who dare to dislike said content - just because you don't find it bad. If this content is so fantastic, why you even bother reading these threads and "getting annoyed", instead of actually trying to get that emergency mission to pop ?

Honestly, don't even bother replying if you have nothing solid to say.

I never said it's a fantastic content as said It's a huge improvements over the original which was really barebone, but ye glad you did read my post ye no point in continuing

[Kahnom]

How to get hunting hawk now ?

[Imsoangry]

I never said it's a fantastic content as said It's a huge improvements over the original which was really barebone, but ye glad you did read my post ye no point in continuing

Indeed no reason to continue, as you clearly have absolutely nothing solid to say and ignore all valid points me and others have made. I guess it's because it's hard to argue with the facts and those are :

- Diadem 2.0 is basically Diadem 1.0 but with mobs tied to FATE's and a whooping ONE special event, that may as a matter of fact never pop for you.
- Mobs are the same boring mobs from old Diadem, with 1-2 attacks and annoying aoes that you constantly have to dodge as melee. Hunt mobs from open world can be more complexed than those in Diadem. For any raider, those are nothing but dummies with an aoe.
- Design of entire place is lacking and lazy copy paste of islands and trees. I mean come on, just walk in any dungeon, 24 man or a raid and tell me that Diadem is good.
- Rewards are just meh. Materia became worthless at this point and minions that drop in diadem will reach absolute bottom in its price this week anyway. Else it's just 280 weapon. Nuff said.
- It took them over a year to introduce this. It also has been delayed and hyped as a serious revamp. Seeing how they did successfully improved many aspects of the game, some would believe that Diadem will actually become fun.
- Overall gameplay is just really shallow and has absolutely nothing exciting in it. Advertised as exploration, it actually is nothing but 3 simple quests and fate grinding afterwards. The fact that on day 1, people already camp in the base waiting for emergency mission to pop says a lot.

On a sidenote, you missed the very obvious irony in words like "fantastic" that I did use on purpose. Have fun in diadem.