So why do we have to craft an expensive item for a CHANCE at a drop in Eureka Pagos?

[Darrcyphfeid]

1) A fundamental misunderstanding about what people like(d) about FFXI.
2) A stubborn refusal to acknowledge that FFXI only worked because gear had a tendency to last years, not weeks/days.
3) An outright stupid insistence on trying to play the nostalgia card.

[QuinceTaru]

1) A fundamental misunderstanding about what people like(d) about FFXI.
2) A stubborn refusal to acknowledge that FFXI only worked because gear had a tendency to last years, not weeks/days.
3) An outright stupid insistence on trying to play the nostalgia card.

I do think they are playing too much into the whole FFXI thing also, however if the eureka gear will last us to the next expansion it will be the longest lasting gear in ff14

[Darrcyphfeid]

I do think they are playing too much into the whole FFXI thing also, however if the eureka gear will last us to the next expansion it will be the longest lasting gear in ff14

You're not wrong. Is the nostalgia gear actually BiS inside Eureka, though? I never really bothered paying much attention when leveling my alt through to EL20, and Darrc here is only EL7 and I can't say I much care to go check if stats matter. If they do, no substat and -12 or so mainstat would be ridiculously hard to overcome.

So basically, instead of listening to the players asking for deeper gear customization with unique stat effects in endgame gear like raid gear and other PvE gear, they put it in Eureka, the most hated content to date...

Honestly, the ship on that finished sailing when they removed accuracy as a controlled stat.

But yes, they did. Just like Diadem experimented with trying to bring back Aetherial/random augment gear.

[Ramesses]

1) A fundamental misunderstanding about what people like(d) about FFXI.

This exactly.

FFXI had...amoung several other elements... a fundamental understanding for one's time and efforts thus the time sink had a purpose.