Quote Originally Posted by Packetdancer View Post
Things becoming easier over time is sort of the nature of ongoing online games where you have some sort of power progression (i.e. leveling of some form). If you allow yourself to be unhappy because other people who achieved something did it more easily than you did as a result of that power creep over time, you'll just make yourself miserable. That's why I, personally, choose not to let myself get upset over someone else using tools to make a fight easier (or even just more accessible to them); if I value my own achievements only by their rarity or perceived difficulty, I'll just drive myself mad.
I would even say that, if you're the type of person that looks after hard achievements that brings you a sort of status and remain hard for a longer time, FFXIV is not even the best game for that. The relic you did will be easier, the mount you farmed 1493984 fights to get will appear at the moogle tomestone event, the gear you crafted by yourself before all your friends will be useless next patch, the minion or emote you paid bazigillions will be cheap eventually.
If the value of your achievements is solely dependent if others are able to do it or not, you'll always be disappointed, with or without plugin.


And even so, I'm struggling to find plugins that would really help me get certain achievements. You bet that, if I download cactpot, I still won't be able to land into a random ultimate party and clear it.