Please consider changing the role of normal mode Alexander in future patches

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i'm not debating this. i believe bleeding edge raiders should have the best gear. i'm fine with that.

He was wondering where people get the impression that you need to dedicate your life to raiding, that's all I was saying. it's because raiders make it sound that way when they argue against non-raiders getting decent loot.

Yeah that image is complete rubbish, I work a 9-5 post degree job and have still managed to progress in all of the raids at an acceptable pace, I've never had the time to compete with the hardcore guys but I'm in the last phase of A3S now with raiding for roughy 10-12 hours a week. People don't even need to raid that frequently four hours is probably enough to have raids cleared before a new one is introduced.

That's the effect it would have though. The only way they would remove this relatively minor treadmill is if they replaced it with another one, which would be bitched about just as much.

In a way you would be right and in a way not, the first two floors would be easier now with Eso gear, but at the time they would be just as hard in 180 gear. I don't see why the system he suggested should have any knock on effect on A3S though as you shouldn't really be using Alexander Normal gear by that point anyway.

The only thing that was cool about it was seeing Bahamut's head, because c'mon, it's his head! That's what was Coil awesome, the awesome setting, facing off in unknown creations of the Allagan, learning more about the Allagan and Bahamut himself. Alexander pales in comparison, and I stated it's not because it was difficult, it's because Alexander's story is a joke in comparison. They could have done amazing things with Alexander, but they decided to take the silly route. Have you guys seen Alexander in FF9 and Type 0? This one is just... bleh in comparison.

I can relate to what your saying here, I feel the story of Alexander has been underwhelming so far, you could even call it comic relief with all these goblins running around, and Alexander in FFIX was epic, one of my favourite scenes in FF history so this version is a bit underwhelming at the moennt. But the story in BCoB wasn't that great either, Coil didn't actually get interesting until T9 and it wasn't until FCoB that I was really fixated on the story. Give this raid some time, so far we have only seen the foundations of a story so far.