Predictions for OC/FT Live Letter

[Voidmage]

Sure rewards are important (The reason Criterion is fun but there's no reason to do it cuz the rewards/character progression there are non existent), but why would they give you even more gear on Normal or a Chaotic Normal? Your gear, gameplay and expertise doesn't matter until you hit Extremes.

To me that's the crux of the problem. Even in savage, I am BiS, but I have nowhere to use it other than to clear savage faster. Since there's no Ultimate coming, this gear I'm wearing is just useless outside of it. I can go into a dungeon and clear it faster, but that's about it.

I wish we could have dungeon sets or other types of challenges that made gearing matter but at this point I would fantasize about another game lol.

That’s what I mean actually.
Alternative ways to get gear for attempting things.
A weekly locked normal mode could give gear on par with crafted ones (or even slightly below tomestone gear).
It would give you an option to gear casually up for a savage for example (if you aren’t interested in doing it right out of the gate) or if the weekly lockout isnt as strict even for an ex.
Those who want to do the other content week 1 can still uses crafted gear (it wouldn’t be invalidated).

Even if that gear was just augmented tomestone gear but with different stats and you had the ability to farm currency to augment it later with the a raid like we have now, you could have the same ilvl but with different stats.
Or give the normal mode trials a farmable currency that can be used to augment dungeon gear to be on par with crafted one for an alternative if more time consuming way to get ready for savage.
If that is out of t he question you could also just give out normal dungeon gear that has different dye-tables or makes it possible to dye it in the first place.

That’s what I mean. I just don’t really know how to describe it better tbh.