Variance in player skill is hurting FFXIV's itemization design.

[MiniPrinny]

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I got the bird (sheer luck) and the two books for SMN and SCH, my main off-Jobs when I'm not playing DRK. At this point, I could get the guillotine or some lesser weapons, but I'm in no rush now to even bother. So, while Nidhogg is rather pointless for raiders in terms of their mains, we can at least work with it as a means to quickly get weapons for off-Jobs.

[RobbieH]

I got the bird (sheer luck) and the two books for SMN and SCH, my main off-Jobs when I'm not playing DRK. At this point, I could get the guillotine or some lesser weapons, but I'm in no rush now to even bother. So, while Nidhogg is rather pointless for raiders in terms of their mains, we can at least work with it as a means to quickly get weapons for off-Jobs.

Most of the time i see people showing off their weapons while afk in Idylshire or Limsa instead of actually using it in dungeons (they have better they just equip the i235 to show off), let alone raids.

As someone who prefers raids and end-game and doesn't really care about trials (they're not even end-game) i find trials pointless for me, Nidhogg EX is one of those examples (Ravana was a must back then for obvious reasons, but no other primal did as much difference since then), the only reason i would do it would be for the bird, i care so much about it i didn't even bother doing it.

This game has an huge issue with rewards, they're not well distributed, never been and hopefully they will fix it, because if not more people will keep leaving.

Right now we have relic i240, i'm doing DRG one and my main is a NIN, i'm only at 90/240 and i'm not even rushing, people rush to show off then they go afk most of the day besides doing some roulettes due to that same reason, rush then have nothing else to do, i'll never understand.

Knowing there's the i240 relic why would i bother with i235 especially when i can pick the relic stats? The relic can even be better than the Midan weapon depending on stats, and it's something that will last at least until 3.5 as more relic quests get available.

From a raider perspective the Nidhogg weapon is pretty much useless, unless one is not to be bothered with Relic or can't beat A7S.