87th PLL showcases a need for change in announcing content

[Andevom]

When I was on Crystal, I never saw a single Ultimate weapon except in a dungeon once (it was a Dragoon). Then I transferred to Aether and everyone had one. Almost everyone I knew or had a passing interaction with had one. The contrast in Limsa between Crystal and Aether before we had DC travel was massive. It shows that given a better environment ie. PUG ultimate culture on Aether, that it can transform how many people do even that content.

As someone who is still on Crystal, characters with Ultimate weapons are way more prevalent now....as are bought runs.

Hard to know how many people nowadays actually went through the effort to get them.

[Jeeqbit]

As someone who is still on Crystal, characters with Ultimate weapons are way more prevalent now....as are bought runs.

People could have bought runs on Crystal back before DC travel. But the lack of visible weapons anywhere indicated to me that buying them wasn't common. Lots of people had them on Aether because people actually were able to genuinely do the content easier there, or were interested in doing raids instead of RP.

Buying does happen but it really seems like an overblown meme to me that people use to discredit most others who earned it. Dying to a dungeon boss could happen because they just ignore dungeons most of the time, or are playing a job they don't normally play to shake things up, but people will jump on that.