Quote Originally Posted by Magic-Mal View Post
I'm still playing Heavenward, please understand.

EDIT: Curiosity bit me so I decided to take a look at the stat weights. It said Determination was 0.156 and Skill Speed was 0.155. I guess being stuck in HW world isn't that bad after all! Unless that source was wrong..
I kind of debated not responding to this because I'm happy some of the other parts of your original post got some time in the spotlight. Feel free to go back to talking about them, I need to get this off my chest.

The idea that you were melding the worst substats (and using a weapon outclassed by i330 Creation, i335 Shinryu EX, i340 upgraded creation, i345 Omega raid/Ultimate, i350 crafted, i355 Byakko, i360 mendacity, i365 Tsukuyomi and HoH, i370 upgraded mendacity and i375 Sigma raid/Ultimate) while complaining that you could never achieve BiS because optimal gear is raid locked really annoys me.

I don't understand how you can sit there and honestly put so little effort into researching something as fundamental to a class as substat optimization (on almost assuredly the class which relies on substats the most) and then complain about there being not enough alternatives to raid gear when the only difference from raid and tome gear is substats apart from the weapon . None of it (apart from crit on BRD perhaps) matters as much as one point of Weapon Damage and you've completely invalidated even perfect BiS by using a bow from 50+ ilvl ago.

You're basically shooting yourself in the foot while complaining that other people get bigger guns than you. Maybe before pointing the finger at others you need to look at the hole in your foot and where it came from. Raiders didn't do that.

I'm sorry if this comes off as harsh. I'm really frustrated because we spent pages arguing about this idea that somehow raiders and raiding were responsible for stifling your gear progression and then I find out you haven't even completed the 24man catch up raid when it's been out for months. It feels almost like betrayal because through all of that I functioned on the assumption that you were at least doing your best to gear yourself within your means and just running into a wall where you couldn't improve because of substats on raid gear.

I don't know whether to offer help or just throw my hands up in the air at this point. At least I think we can safely put to rest the idea that raiders are somehow responsible for your gear stagnation. Please only blame us when things are our fault.