Quote Originally Posted by Ririta View Post
This is good, though. Gearing up to the basic level should be quick.
No it's not -- it's rewarding people for not putting effort into gearing.

Basically the intent in Stormblood is to split the game into a top tier (ex trials, raids, hard raid, harder raids, all the raids) where you have to work hard for your stuff and give it your very best effort and still possibly go home empty handed;

and a bottom tier (normal trials, 24 man trash, dungeons, fates, hunts, potd, whatever) where everything is handed to you on a silver platter, where you don't have to put in any effort -- and then pretending that this split never happened because tomestones fix everything.