Been running Ridorana Lighthouse the whole week and...

[BillyKaplan]

Yet you suggest a token system even though people roll on those.

That's why I want an Extreme-esque token system. Or rather, totem system.

I can go in playing the job I'm most comfortable playing and still get an equal chance to loot for gear for alt jobs.

If you don't feel comfortable running on them, why do you need such high level gear? And why can't you utilize the methods you mentioned yourself?

You can upgrade crafting gear and weapon to 360 just by using creation tombstone

Not everyone have the crafters/gatherers or gil. People can complain about needing more gil sinks until the cows come home, not everyone is a gillionaire, especially the players who actually rely on content like this to gear up.

or you can just buy mendacity gear which is also 360

It takes between a week to two to get a single piece of mendacity gear. While they get the one item from this, they can get another piece of gear from the raid, even if they'll replace it asap. Double weekly upgrade you're telling them to pass up on.

Sigma... Eureka

Time restrictions. Eureka is a massive time-sink, and Sigma can be too if you get unlucky with the rolls. Especially seeing how you need duplicate tokens for most gear pieces. Oh and the raid is an upgrade compared to both, so there goes that.

Every system has issues that can easily keep someone from gearing through it. 24-player raids used to help people to get around it, but now with the Greed-Only that's out the window.