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

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Never cared about them.
Found them to be as ridiculously boring as Diadem.

I do chuckle about chat outrage when s/o pulls early though.

If you can't manage to get 4 bosses on farmstatus after 3 MONTHS, it is NOT the casuals problem and you probably need the Lore 240s in order to down the remaining bosses at all.

Yes, for the world first and server first statics. But are you going to argue that every raid static should have all four floors down within three months to be properly rewarded? Any static stuck on a8s, a fight many consider to be harder than a4s, should have their rewards invalidated before they can even manage to get a kill? Please, between irl stuff, scheduling, and replacements, the average raid team is lucky to have reached A8S. You seem to be speaking from ignorance.