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So..you're telling me the people who begged SE for an easier raid system to "more fit their lifestyle" aren't running it? Why do they continue to make it if "so few people actually utilize the content" as a popular argument against harder content is thrown around.
You're moving the goal posts. A minute ago, you said:
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people begged SE for "story mode Alexander", which means running Midas 4 every week
And no, having story mode doesn't mean you MUST grind the **** out of it. It just means it's there to do as people please. You're also drawing a completely incorrect assumption that just because people aren't grinding it hardcore-style that there must be very few people doing it. Again, Hio, your hardcore nature is totally on display here.
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Current ilvl is 245. Next in line is ilvl240 unaugmented then ilvl 230. The easiest "upgrade" weapon is Sephirot 220. 3.3 is the next ilvl jump. So no..ilvl230 being outdated upon the next ilvl jump makes it worthless in the grandscheme of things, because if you're arguing that it's a "top level weapon you can easily get"..it has to match ilvl or be at least CLOSE to the ilvl of the raid/crafted equivillent. If it was 240 it would be a different story, or even 235 so it's nice in between, but it's 230..which means it's already on the lowest end of "top" weapons, which, as of today, you can get one if you actually did STORY MODE midas since it's release, which most people have, based on the lodestone and pads parsing shows quite a bit of people rocking Midas 220 gear, since it was "hardcore" to buy/craft and overmeld the crafted 220 set.
I didn't realize the tome weapon is i240 (the i245 is irrelevant), so I can understand why you'd scoff at a relic weapon. However, everything I've said still stands. If you're not a hardcore player, then an i230 weapon is absolutely fine for anything you'll do in the game at this point, and it won't be long before the relic chain equals or surpasses the tome weapon. And getting the i210 to i230 bump is pretty easy, allowing players to use their lore tomes on other things -- which many, many people are.
I'm guessing you'll disagree with that too, which again shows how you approach this game from a hardcore standpoint.
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Not really. I said explicitedly, doing a relic in this cycle is something you'd do if you want to eventually personalize it or like the design, otherwise, you do realize ilvl230 relic is the SAME ILVL as the 7 week Lore weapon, right? It takes FAR less work to get the lore weapon, which is my point, because despite the work involved, which yoshida stated himself was designed to match Savage progression time commitment and 'Difficulty", it doesn't go beyond easier to obtain weapons. Has absolutely nothing to do with hardcore.
The bolded part is what a hardcore player would say. You're not understanding that some people enjoy doing the relic chain because, to them, it's a form of endgame... and it also makes sense to do, since it only requires doing the things people would do in the game anyway. The funny thing is you probably don't even realize how many players would find that bolded text to be condescending.
You're right that it takes far less work to get a lore weapon... but didn't you see that coming? I sure did, as I'm sure most players did, too. And regardless, the relic quest remains wildly popular. And that's because most people who play this game don't approach it from your hardcore perspective.
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Where...did I say this?
Trust me, I'm glad that I misunderstood you.
And Hio, I'm pointing out that you're hardcore (and you are... don't fight it) because your hardcoreness actually helps to make sense of why you keep playing this game despite how much you seem to despise it.
Edited, Apr 5th 2016 8:31am by Thayos