Instead of cutting Ultimate from 5.5 why not cut bozja?

[Myon88]

Here's a fun fact that came to mind. The black mage best in slot gearset for this tier costs 4315 tomes which take 10 weeks to accumulate. We've just entered week 9 of the tier, which means if my reckoning is right, no black mage succeeded in completing that gearset before they received the news that there would be no ultimate to use it in anyway.

Jokes aside, I don't think people would be anywhere near as upset if this news was communicated at a better time. Raiding groups were completely blindsided with plans for the coming months having to be thrown out, and many groups formed for the last Eden tier itself were formed on the assumption that they would have reason to stick together for the long haul.

I think this has also been exacerbated by a general dearth of combat content this expansion in general. We've gone from 2 (or was it 2 and 1 alternating) new dungeons a patch to 1, and while most people (not least the hardcore raiders) consider them trifling, they nonetheless served as set dressing to enrich the game world and the baseline of combat related content. We're also seeing deep dungeon go 'on break' for the first time, which was unique content in terms of being able to satisfy both casual alt levelers and hardcore solo players.

Either of these things alone (even the loss of an ultimate) could be conceivably shrugged off, but we're seeing an unfortunate confluence of all of them at once which is why I venture this news stings particularly bad for some people.