How to make the 3rd raid difficulty work

[Reynhart]

There's no reward for trying to beat the hardest content in the fastest time possible yet people still do it - for the challenge, for the prestige, for the ego...

For the fastest farm giving you plenty of time to do something else...

SCH and WAR videos who solo EX Primals - no (worthwhile) reward
Low man Sophia EX clear - no (worthwhile) reward
PotD Solo Ranking does exist - no (worthwhile) reward

You're right, no (worthwile) reward...but also no weekly farm enforced so that people won't start complaining that there is nothing to do...which, by the way is also not enforced by neither a title reward nor the challenge to beat the content, giving your top-tier content absurdingly low lifetime.

Definitely not worth the cost.

[Ghishlain]

For the fastest farm giving you plenty of time to do something else...

The speed kill groups have done the fights enough times to gear their mains, secondary, and tertiary jobs to the teeth. They have no use for "faster" kills.

Let alone the fact they'll wipe for a few hours in an attempt to shave five seconds off their final kill time.

Yeah, the people doing speed kills and killing things like Refurbisher 0 in 2 minutes and 36 seconds aren't doing it for efficient farming.

You're right, no (worthwile) reward...but also no weekly farm enforced so that people won't start complaining that there is nothing to do...which, by the way is also not enforced by neither a title reward nor the challenge to beat the content, giving your top-tier content absurdingly low lifetime.

Definitely not worth the cost.

If the content is challenging enough to keep world first players going at it for a month, then I think we've achieved the "WTH KINDA DIFFICULTY IS THIS?!" nail since it'll keep most progression raiders well beyond that (assuming they can even clear it) - something for them to strive for.

Keep it minimal ilvl even after the gear level increases and the content will stay around.