Phantom Jobs are a step in the right direction but need iteration.

[Fawkes]

This was a common misconception. You didn’t need anything that was rare to do a significant amount of damage. People weren’t asking for excellence deep profane and lost font of magic to run a zone 1 skirmish. People were just saying when aetherweaver fragments cost 30 Gil on the marketboard you can afford to not use platebearer”

People were absolutely requiring the best DPS essences for PF DR runs, and blacklisting people who didn't use them. Because you had to run it FIFTEEN TIMES PER WEAPON, and there was almost an hour difference in completion time between people using them or not.