Quote Originally Posted by Dualgunner View Post
Crafted gear is the best you need regarding MSQ and new trials. Raids are wholly unrelated to the main story and unnecessary, and if you hate duties as much as you claim, why do you run even NM raids? Which, btw, crafted gear is still OP for since it rewards the same level gear as one can craft.
It's new content to experience. I don't hate raids and duties when I'm first experiencing them, I'm seeing new sights and seeing new content. But the cycle of repetition, of repeating duties and raids is that I don't find fun. You really have to commit to the repetition to see the rewards. I've killed Ex-Death like 30 times to get a certain set of Samurai gear for the glamour, but it was an aggravating experience. It was fun learning the fights of Deltascape at first, the requirements to actually get armor out of the fights is just something that kills the fun of it for me.