Quote Originally Posted by Nedkel View Post
Could you tell me, what is a sense of doing normal mode anymore than 1 time? It provides abysmal and pointless gear progression, you are far better buying crafted gear.
Dungeons are boring, so cut it in half and make it even more boring so barely anyone is doing them, what a great change really.
I can tell you that some of the theorycrafters that make BiS sets actually recommend for some jobs to get Normal mode gear pieces over crafted. Example: DNC during Eden’s Gate took normal mode over pentamelded crafted for some pieces because the crafted has skill speed, and DNC is not a job that likes skill speed. Same for this tier. They recommended the gloves and a couple accessories to avoid skill speed from the crafted pieces.

Normal mode is also decent for people who want to gear alt jobs but don’t want to fork over gil for crafted gear.

The reason why both normal and crafted gear suffer right now is because of the AF gear. Same thing happened when Anemos released the AF gear.