Quote Originally Posted by Reilyn View Post
My co-healer and I go through healing savage manipulator with MP constantly <5k, and having to deal with sporadic damage. My reward is: no title, a mount that looks like crap, sounds literally like garbage (seriously, it's the sound of a bunch of trashcans), and the chance at a weapon... that gets outdone by doing content anyone can do while dozing off...?
Yes, the general tradeoff is that you can, with a solid group, get that weapon much, much earlier than the Relic/Anima questline (as the "max level" weapons for that avenue are always unobtainable until well after the raid content is released. Raid weapons are BiS for several classes as well (but that's an issue of itemization and the generally poor functioning of secondary stats in the game so far). They've at least deadened the impact of RNG on raiding thanks to the addition of the token system, at least.