Quote Originally Posted by Judah_Brandt View Post
Zosia, if the functionality of your idea is saying that the best players having the best gear as a reward for being the best is obtuse, I feel you are creating an inflated argument to counter a valid point. The upgrade item for the Lore weapon dropped in A7S. So you'd argue that players who did not have equivalent time and skill may also have been occluded from acquiring that weapon, correct? All right. Then, the i230 Lore weapon and i230 Anima existed. The "best" weapons were locked behind content considered by many to be too difficult. Therefore the items there intrinsically have more value. What I did was use less words to explain a point. But I can be functionally condescending, too. I just choose to do it in less characters.
This is not working, few item lvs. above the casual weapon is not an option especially when it gets deprecated few months later with the next casual 24-man raid.
It's not only the weapon, like I've said before, the whole raid gear should be ways more higher than the casual one with the help of end game crafting to push it in some way (the overmeld logic works but again it's accessible to everyone and that's not good at all). On the other hand, if the casual gamers had something to do they wouldn't blame about getting the same gear of raiders; truth is the lack of content is real and Heavensward was pretty much a joke compared to massive expansions such Aht Urhgan in FFXI.