why is the p8s loot so expensive?

[Curisu]

Someone who'd be genuinely good players to have for a fresh ultimate but had to depart until like a week before the ultimate came out would need to be binned then unless being fed all the gear + some luck for a week or two.

I think that's kinda sad, I have a couple of ppl who are like that right now. They came a bit late to the party to no fault of their own and are behind on gearing, but I have done Ultimates with them and they are basically entirely gated by gear right now.

To enter the ultimate you need to have the current savage cleared.
And if you have a group for ultimate but are late for the gearing, then you just do it once with that static and get all the loot.
And the ultimate will not be cleared within a week, so you have multiple weeks to get the BiS.