Current State of End-Game Contents - A Blog Post from A Japanese Player

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I find the meaningless stats of gear very unmotivating for all the rest of the content which is exactly just to grind better gear. Getting to ilvl 100 means nothing and you're not really rewarded for obtaining better gear because fights are on strict rails no matter what.

Better gear helps a lot. I don't like the idea that gear should be the end all be all.