Soo... apparently Diadem has i280 weapons with higher WD than alexandrian/anima lux

[Lambdafish]

In other words, let's all bow down to the haters and let the game stagnate.

Pretty much yeah, because "haters" (I'm going to call them dissatisfied consumers) in this case don't seem to be a minority. The only defence people are giving in defence of i280 are "SB is coming, why do you care?" or "its rare, why do you care?", both of which are weak arguments to a fundamental game design change, and a radical shift to the reward structure. There are very few positives to this, it just depends how much you care (the NA community seems to have a people being angrily vocal about being indifferent lol).

I'd rather that other content did not suffer for the sake of raiding's place in ilvl. I was told in no uncertain terms to deal with it crafting and relic weapons would not be able to reach a similar level of competition with raiding gear.

Raiders need to get over Diadem, I tried the thing last night, and the mess of folks I was wish were more for the various other loot than anything, simply going for the weapon alone is insanity, unless you are an incredibly orangized fc, even then, those are some long hours of attempts.

Raiding has to be the highest ilvl, it is fundamentally how the piece of content works. You can match ilvl, in fact relic does, and it creates a second endgame, but you cannot make raiding second best in terms of ilvl because then it makes it stepping stone content behind something that doesn't require a savage weapon. Diadem weapons should be i275 maximum.