We Really Need To Talk About The State And Path Of FFXIV

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Diadem 1.0 was never nerfed. Some raiders complained, yes, but the gear stayed i210 (same item level as the savage gear at the time). So SE ignored the raider complaints.

Except it was nerfed. While they didn't nerf the iLvl of the gear, they did nerf the droprate of the i210 stuff. The nerfed droprate, along with the high change to get i210 gear with terrible stats/stat combinations, was enough for the majority to completely drop Diadem. I remember this clearly, because my FC was unfortunate enough to finally unlock the hard mode difficulty shortly after the nerf.

So yes, they did listen to the raiders with Diadem 1.0.

I'd argue that they also listened to the raiders with Diadem 2.0, with how ridiculously rare the i280 weapon was. You were lucky to even see a successful Emergency Mission, and even then there'd only be a chance for one person to get a random i280 weapon (not tied to their job) with random stats (which may not even be good).

So unless you can prove diadem was taken away from us solely due to raiders complaining about the gear in it back in 3.1, with some kind of statement from SE to confirm it, then you shouldn't be using this as a reason to be upset at raiders and/or blame them for things.

While I'm sure others also complained about Diadem 1.0's lack of fun content, raiders were at least partially to blame. The i210 gear, with some luck on stat rolls, threatened to make the Gordias gear obsolete (which was a big deal, with how difficult Gordias was). The devs made sure that didn't happen by nerfing the droprate on Diadem gear. The outcome: Diadem became obsolete, as the one thing that got most players to run it was no longer worthwhile to go after.