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

[Casmir_Chev]

I will be doing it for the three minions and will stop. It is boring.

[Rufalus]

There are things I like about it. I couldn't call it more boring than say... normal 4-player dungeons. It's a nice change from other content; good to have options. It's impossible to please everybody with all the variables that go into design like difficulty, amount of freedom, types of rewards, size and length of duty.

[AureliusDraconium]

The emergency missions are a huge mess. Its almost like the enemies do not de-aggro/reset or something. Someone went and pulled the dogs in the middle to troll while everyone else was fighting on the outer platforms. They dragged the dogs over to where people were fighting and it caused a huge wipe. When people would respawn they would run back in to instantly die. Eventually we got everyone to wait but the second we entered back in it was a pure slaughter all over again. It feels like some sort of faulty design but I'm not sure. I'm all for difficult content but when someone can wipe everyone for laughs and the instance not reset then i'm totally out. It makes me wonder why we do not have a public test server to give feedback but instead have to deal with this.

[FeliAiko]

Honestly, had this come out as intended 9 days ago it would probably be dead content by this point in time (outside of gathering/fishing). Once you get past the controversy of a i280 weapon, the content itself has very little to offer. Wasn't this supposed to be a revamp of sorts? Yet instead of grinding down ranked mobs for loot, you're instead grinding down FATES for tokens to trade for loot PoTD-style. The exploration element is practically non-existent, which becomes apparent once you do the objectives. Kind of a shame that this is how HW is gonna go out at this rate leading into 4.0. Diadem, tagged as one of the flagship features of this expansion, has wound up being nothing more than a disappointment.

[PotatoTree]

I don't care about the weapon, but the actual diadem is extremely boring. There could have been so many ways to make it fun, but fates and monster grinding is not one of them. After the weapon craze this will be dead content again.

Edit: however I do like how the t-rex eats the triceratops, and some mobs patrol areas. It gives an "alive" feeling to the world seeing monsters attack each other.

[Remedi]

Edit: however I do like how the t-rex eats the triceratops, and some mobs patrol areas. It gives an "alive" feeling to the world seeing monsters attack each other.

Indeed would be great to see that in the outside world too

[Watachy]

Can't belive no one posted this yet:

[Lilseph]

I didn't do the first Diadem because I quit during Gordias with my main. Now I gave it a try and I'm very surprised. I thought it was going to be a grindfest, boring and mind numbing. I was right. I don't like it. I'll just get the Pegasus I didn't get before and the minions, then I'll stop doing it. I don't even care about the ilvl 280 weapon, since I already have Alex on farm and there's not much to do anymore till the expansion.

[Renius]

Just noticed the changes (been away for a while). I never really went to diadem other than with FC. Is there any way to join thru Ishgard without being part of a full party?

[Texa]

I already got wind up pegasus, full sized mount pegasus, the baby dino, and the hunting hawk last night. All the major rewards of the place, minus the weapon I really don't care about, barely even 12 hours after the content was released.