Why Aurum Vale is Loathed

[Hakuro89]

Is aetherial gear unrepairable? I've never noticed it being a problem, and some pieces from earlier dungeons have lasted me a long time.

News to me too, actually. Probably because it's normally replaced with something better long before durability becomes an issue.

[Enkidoh]

News to me too, actually. Probably because it's normally replaced with something better long before durability becomes an issue.

I think he really meant 'unsellable' as opposed to 'unrepairable', as aetherial gear definetley is repairable. And although you cannot sell it on the Market Board, it can still be turned into your GC for seals either way.

As for a hard mode version, that was it's original form in version 1.0 which, although I never ran it then, I heard the horror stories. The place was literally hell (there was actually achievements in 1.0's version for not actually getting poisoned by the Goldbile, an almost impossible task and one which I think was never attained by anyone), so ARR's version is actually easier. So we should be thankful in ARR that we got the easy version, not the original hard one.

[Iscah]

I think he really meant 'unsellable' as opposed to 'unrepairable', as aetherial gear definetley is repairable. And although you cannot sell it on the Market Board, it can still be turned into your GC for seals either way.

Ah, that would make more sense - although that's no different to any other dungeon gear, and GC seals are more valuable than gil anyway. Plus you can still desynthesise it.

Aetherial gear was just ARR's cheap way of making special dungeon gear without actually having to design new gear every time.