Quote Originally Posted by Jennestia View Post
Difficulty is subjective. Some people breeze through Nightmare mode on the 3D Ys games like it's child plays, others can't even kill normal monsters in Bellistine castle or Clock Tower or Ruined city of Kishgal.

Rare items are items that aren't in surplus, if everyone has Sword of Reckoning that has an added effect of shattering the land, it's no longer rare, it's common. Time commitment being added to rare gear is what keeps it rare without dropping the drop rate to .01%, i.e Ragnarok Online cards.

If you have gear that will drop at 100% after a certain period of time, it's no longer rare, because after 3 kills it gets to 50+%, what's stopping 100s of others from killing 3 mobs and getting said rare gear?
Right, difficulty is subjective, but it is not in any way correlated to time spent as a lot of people seem to believe.

Rare/common is not a binary switch. It is a wide spectrum between the most common and the most rare. You act as if making it any less rare suddenly makes it common. This is not the case. It would still be on the rare end of the spectrum.

Your numbers are clearly exaggerated from what I'd ask for. I would want them to make it so that if you prove to be on the severely unlucky side of probability, then you will earn the item. I think we would both agree that getting the item after 3 kills would not be sufficient proof that you are even remotely unlucky.

Regarding the idea of making an item slightly less rare, would you have a problem with anything happening that makes an item less rare? Let me ask a hypothetical question. Let's say a small group of players decides to dedicate every minute of every day for the next six months to getting Sorcerer's Robes for everyone on the server. It would clearly no longer be rare, so would you be upset at those players for destroying the integrity of that rare item? It would seem unreasonable to me to be mad at those people, but unless there is some other reason for you to oppose these changes besides that it makes the items less rare, then I don't see any way to justify being mad at Square if they make the requested changes and not being mad at these players. Unless... you actually would be mad at these players, in which case I'd be curious as to why.