Thread: What do you think was the worst thing this game experienced from 2.0 until now?

My personal two :
- Capped tome gear (especially weapon), killing the relevance of every gear besides raid
- Splitting 8-man raids into normal and savage, giving less incentive to tackle really hard content

1. Extremely incompetent handling of housing
2. Eureka
3. Massive influx of microtransactions with none of the profit being invested back into the game

Having played from 2.0-present, I say the long wait between 3.0 and 3.1, and then 3.1 itself. Lord of Verminion sounded cool, but we should've known nobody would do it. And diadem was crap. And....that's mainly all we got after almost half a year. Sure, Thordan Ex was a cool fight, but I have never seen any period of the game cause as much burnout, and sub cancels. It crippled my FC, forcing us to another, and I believe it was also around the time the EU data centre / free transfer was introduced, making our server even more dead since all the hardcore players want to converge on one place (pre cross world). Absolute travesty.

Making crafter specializations pointless. I liked that when they were introduced it gave crafters incentive to work together. Now specializations come down to "which jobs do you want a little bit extra stats on that isnt going to matter anyways", coupled with the extremely low requirement to switch specializations at will. Omni crafting is great, it gives me the ability to be completely self reliant. But it removes any sense of crafter identity and decision making.

Its also a double edged sword where it hurts the market for crafters, but it helps people who don't craft.

Originally Posted by TaleraRistain

One huge difference. They didn't put a highly desired thing like the relic in Diadem. They tied the relic to Eureka. That's going to majorly skew the numbers.

Actually they did. You had to gather then specialty craft them

Originally Posted by Dragoon4life

Actually they did. You had to gather then specialty craft them

You could obtain the materials without ever going into the content, though. With Eureka, there is no other path and no way to get the materials you need without going into the content yourself. Yes, people would have had to pay gil to those who obtained the items in Diadem, but they wouldn't contribute to the numbers going there if they obtained the materials that way.

I'd have to say Diadem for me, not because of the grind though, I could tolerate that even if it was tedious. It was the other people playing the content, too much negative atmosphere with people yelling at each other constantly. I get that people were frustrated about the content but it was quite rare to run into such vitriol in any other content like dungeons or trials at the time, turned me away hard from Diadem before the grind even got to me.