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

[Lambdafish]

So you think all the raiders in their materia-enhanced, i270 gear are champing at the bit to get random statted i265 gear as a step up towards Stormblood ?
Uhm ....

For their other jobs yes, however the i280 does nothing for them because it is so rare.

The fact you can't separate the two actions is disturbing.

The funny thing is that you also did this. You are right that Xerek pointed the finger at the devs rather than the community, but you did the opposite extreme when in fact both are at fault.

Those that sabotage are in the wrong, they deserve their report/ban/lifetime in prison, but turning a blind eye to the faults of the system is strange to me. The diadem system as a whole encourages chaos, it is uncontrolled and works on the faith that 72 people can work together (24 people can rarely do that), and thats without the inclusion of the weapon that as Xerek stated, only goes to one person rather than being an evenly distributed reward. The whole system baffles me and it makes me kinda angry that the devs can be so short sighted in their design decisions.