Quote Originally Posted by Naoki_Yoshida View Post
Moreover, the frequency of drops for high level gear is beyond what the development team expected, breaking the balance with other content.

This only applies when low ranking enemies are defeated by more than one party, and will not affect the drop rate of treasure chests or the gear obtained from them. Please accept our apologies that this was not well-balanced from the start. We realize that making these changes so suddenly is an inconvenience. We ask that you please understand that this is being done in order to maintain the overall balance of FFXIV.
And you needed to test it to understand? I mean.. its just math. For me a PINK 210 item was a shit from the beginning, mostly is easy to have it (even if they are random stats and they can be better then a Gordian's one with some luck). The Diadem could be a good farming content, but with this is just an another hunting monster just to have an equip better then the Savage's one without really skill and effort.