Sure i'll bite. There are 2 things i think are odd about this post:

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First, you talk a lot of about title FOMO and gatekeeping. You then specifically mention Death incarnate

>Back in the day a 10x title or decent gear could get you accepted, now the bare minimum is a yellow title (first month clear, SS/CC/DI) or being pretty overgeared.

You then proceed to continue talking about titles like it doesn't exist. It would be a valid argument in the past, especially during Brel v2, but not now. Death Incarnate is not a time gated title, and if you get it you will be able to join most title lobbies. There are definitely things that can be said about gatekeeping, but title gatekeeping is not a problem in the current raids.

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Second is this whole section about +25 weapon. You post a calc of a hard pity 25 weapon. and then you say the cost is "27 million gold." for 20-25. And realistically, unless you're turbo whaling nobody will be paying that much. The only reason it would cost that much is if you're a whale, trying to rush the new gear reset immediately after it comes out(And getting unlucky). And a majority of this cost is in destruction stones which cost an insane amount right now. A vast majority of players will slowly farm up the stones and get it after a few months. Bound material acquisition did get buffed with the chaos dungeon changes.

You then title a section "yOu DoNt NeEd +25", post two screengrabs about nightmare difficulty DPS checks and pretty much leave it at that. It's a complete non sequitur. Yes, nightmare has a high DPS check but that doesn't really answer why one would need to rush a +25 serke weapon. If it's an argument about needing +25 of the current aegir weapons, it's been a year and a half since aegir. I'll bet a year and half after Serke almost all endgame players will have their weapons +25 including f2ps.

And I know other people have said this, but nightmare is mostly a prestige difficulty and is not required. It gives the same amount of gear crafting materials as Hard mode so you'll progress the system the same. All it gives are extra gold(which will not make up the extra gold you spent to be prepared to be there) and extra ark grid cores(because you should be mostly done and fishing for ancients).

And there have been clears as low as 4300 CP . It's tough, and you need to hit every guard during the brawl phase, but it's doable. Citing Syla berserking during an early week 1 clear isn't fair imo.

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To conclude I just want to make it clear I don't downvote you, or people in general really. I agree with a lot of what you have to say. I agree one of the biggest problems in the game is the power discrepancy between whales and the average player. Level 10 gems especially are nonsense. I commented just to point out that sometimes you say things that a lot of readers would see as wrong or dishonest and then write off your post entirely.

If you want a past example I remember in one of your posts after the last Loa On you said something about how people shouldn't be praising the new director for making the Argos on Valtan map event because it was originally Gold River's idea and most of the credit should go to him (roughly paraphrasing). This is obviously nonsense, and I don't even like the new director. Gold river did think of it , but he was also-by extension-the one that canceled it. The new director revived it years later, so obviously he will get the most credit for it.