Sorry Yoshi, but if you award the best weapon in the game by winning the lottery...

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Raiders frequently complained that Savage was not the only option. The real problem with options is not really to have one or several, but to have one content cover every need.

Why care about this really small minorty? There was only one real issue, that was withthe 210 relic and the Gordian weapon and Yoshi-P admitted himself that this was a bad decision, just alone because of the Ultra high difiicult of Gordias and the timeframes back then.

Never again this was a huge issue and since then there was almost no complaint thread regarding relic becoming raid level.

Please link a thread which complains about availability of 275 weapons with many supporting raiders in there. You won't find one.

No, it wouldn't. Raiders wouldn't group with "casuals" to gain a kind of weapon they already have, and Anima owners wouldn't do it either since their alt job would easily obtain a wapon powerful enough for any content, and their main already has the BiS weapon.

You don't seem to know very much about gearing in this game.
"They already have their BiS"? Wat? BiS changes as soon as more options on the same ilvl are added, rendering your current BiS not BiS anymore.

They would. They already join together with them in every relic related quest, they join together with them in every primal ex group, they join them in roulettes, which you need to get the normal 270 gear. They join them in 24-man, to get the upgrade and the proto-ultima drop and 260 gear for their 7th/8th/xxth Job.

And yes, of course I would join Diadem to get the 2-3 pieces everyone of my jobs need for the then-new BiS, if the acquisition rate is similar to savage/scripture/Protoultima.

And glamour is a thing, too, at least that was said about relic and savage weapon. So, at least for this reason, we would join you filthy casuals. :3

"Once a week" is not particularly "alive". Especially if you intend it to still be alive for the next three months.

I complete Dun Scath usually 3-4 times a week. 1-2 times to get a neat item, 2-3 times to help some fc mates. Yes, only MNK and NIN [that one is not even levelled] are below 240, but that's still 8 interesting items for me and glamour is a thing, too.

"Once a week" only applies if you don't want to have a specific gear piece.
And a Diadem with the same "popularity" as Dun Scath would still be considered a success. Why overdo it?

It's a fact that lots of people of having nothing to do at all between 2.5 and 3.0.

Well, they can do Diadem, all I'm saying is that a 280 weapon should not be needed as an incentive.

"Having nothing to do" = "Having no higher ilvl to obtain"? That's your opinion?

All the people that asked for new relevant content do so beside Savage and are upset that their character only improves every 6 months.

Please, link a thread. I think I saw something like this once, too, but well.. that wasn't well recieved as far as I remember.

People complaining about fast gear recycling are way in the majority if you look at the forums. Many complain that they can't gear all their jobs within a gear tier.
Additional high level sets help with that issue.

It really depends on people, in fact. You have some skilled players totally unable to have the patience to farm for the Anima of the Diadem. For them, Anima is "harder". Savage has the highest skill requiement, but, first, skill is not the only thing that should be rewarded, and second, skill doesn't have to cover every reward.

And still.. then make the rewards equal in value at least. Or comparable at least. And not a hidden ilvl 290 weapon with a 280 tag and destryoing absolutly every other weapon.
Savage weapons, although they were (for some jobs) BiS, never were that out of scale.

It sure would be a great way to push people doing PotD again, yes. Or, even more, you make PotD a requirement to unlock a unique Necromancer job.

But they already do it, because the current incentive (fast leveling) is enough.
Incentives are only working when total overkill? I don't think so.