To be fair, the Greed-only thing was more of a problem for older raids than for the current raid. In the current raid, gear is still locked and none of it can be desynthed or exchanged for GC points. Basically, if someone is rolling against you, it's because they actually need the gear (possibly for glamour, but that's still a need) - they aren't just lotting items willy-nilly. Players (tanks especially, who previously had NO competition) DID wind up having more competition than they used to, but not a lot more competition.

It's the older raids for which this change was an unmitigated disaster. Anyone can lot anything for any reason in the older raids, and that meant that folks looking for specific pieces of gear (generally for glamour) had competition from people with non-specific reasons for wanting the gear (desynth and GC points). Many folks lot everything in those raids, and sort out later how they want to process the pieces they get.

Quote Originally Posted by SinisterJoints View Post
But eureka has full instances daily and people enjoy it. So yea... there is that. The only thing worse than Diadem is your post! You may not like it, but others do...
In all fairness, Eureka is current, with relevant gear, while the Diadem is dated. I'll confess that I pretty much gave up on Diadem forever when I saw the dino-grind the original version became - but much later on, I occasionally tagged along for Diadem v2.0 parties looking to collect Spoils to get the mount, and found that the changes had MUCH improved it. There was actually incentive to do things other than mindlessly grind mobs, to actually complete the Diadem quests assigned. I never saw an Emergency Mission, but if this was the Diadem that had been there originally, I probably would have spent more time there. And I say all this as someone who actually enjoyed Eureka.