Why 280 weapons?

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

The gear and the weapons have random stats on them. Most of the time these stats aren't great. If you hate it so much, then please unsub. Stormblood is in a few shorts months, so then all of your Alex gear will be glamour anyways. Please, just stop all of the crying. Let's be adults here.

So, by your attitude here, it'd be perfectly okay if I hired you to do a job, gave you a pretty heavy and lengthy workload and pay you decently, but then pay the guy that's late a lot and barely does half the work you do more, right?

Rhetoric aside, someone brought up a very real concern: Lethargy. Players are getting tired of grinding out gear (and as a side note: Heavensward only complicated that by forcing people to complete normal raids and lengthening the time it takes to even get a tome weapon from 3 weeks at minimum to 7 weeks, as well as the added materia grind for gear melding now too), only to have to simply restart the climb once more after 3 months or so. Of course, the answer isn't as simple as horizontal progression, though that - if done right - would likely be welcome. But NOW, the fear of immediate and sudden obsoletion of hard earned gear through lesser/lower effort means or RNG has taken root, and I for one hope that it's a fear quickly put down.

No one wants to feel like 6 months of raiding was less than layers of RNG.
No one wants to feel like 2 years of dedication to a long, varied grind are easily overstepped by a lucky drop.
RNG itself is not a challenge, nor a valid replacement for challenge.
And if it's necessary to place a high end item behind layers of RNG simply to bait people into "improved" content, the biggest problem may perhaps be the content itself, and would require further improvement.