Quote Originally Posted by Jennestia View Post
..Which is exactly what most modern MMOs have been practicing for the past few years. There's still no advantage unless you can prove that Immortal Flames for example gives you complete game changing advantage over Maelstrom for example -- I want to see a quest from Immortal flames that will progress your character further than if you join Maelstrom, I also want to see how joining Maelstrom or Twin Adder will progress you slower.

That's unbalance. Items that will be obsoleted isn't unbalancing anything.
It prevents you from progressing to the optimal setup for gear for this patch, even if you want to. You don't seem to understand that gear is near everything in this game, like I stated in the first post I made in this topic. It would be like saying everyone can do the ifrit quest but only uldahns can get ifrit weapons in the last patch. Yeah they will be obsolete, but ill be damned if i am not doing 150 damage more per weaponskill with my harpoon which equates to about 3000 damage more for me per ifrit fight, and I know its going to help me on the moogle fight.