Going to have to disagree. I have friends that have done savage and had multiple 275 weapons for far longer than I have had my 270. Also would like to point out that a lot of the steps (pre-nerf) took far longer to do than it takes for a good group to learn and get most savage steps down, so you have your gear far longer than most will have anything equivalent anyway.... The Umbrite and Unidentifiable items say hi. Time investment of any kind should pay off.

If they don't change the forumula in 4.0, and nerfed the payout for the amount of time put into the steps, I would definitely have 0 reason to play the game anymore, and quit.

Making gil and amassing a fortune is easy in this game, and was one of my goals, and I hit 200m which was my goal LONG ago. So outside of the same content being repeated over and over, there is nothing else for me (That I enjoy) to do in this game other than relic. I enjoy having goals in MMO's. I'm sure others do too.

Now excuse me while I go pay 30m to obtain my A12S clear and mount that will take me only 10 minutes to obtain, and a month to make back. /s