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The difficulty of making Kannagi goes like this:
Solo: Semi difficult.
Duo: Very easy.
Trio+: Like duo, just faster.

Picking a Kannagi over a mythic is like winning the lottery IRL, and just saying "no thanks" to the money, instead choosing to win a free hotdog from the convenience store instead.

The effort it takes to get a Mythic to 99 (3 Scoria = ~20mil and 3 Salvage runs) is pretty insignificant compared to the effort it takes to get an Empyrean or Relic to 99. If you are a casual player looking to get a good weapon out of the Bonanza because you don't have time to play, picking anything other than a mythic is just a bad choice. You can get the 95 in two or three days (or within a ~5 hour period with the right preparation and timezone) and plink gil away to get it to 99 on your own time schedule. Gil is not hard to get these days. Your three Salvage runs to get it to 95 will, depending on your zone, server, and luck with pouches, potentially already fund one of your Scoria.

If you look at these weapons as a path to the 99 version, then you're comparing:
Mythic - Costs ~20 mil.
Relic - Costs 2-3 times as much
Empyrean - Costs ten times as much

So a 90 Kannagi is going to stay a 90 Kannagi forever for casual players, especially those too casual to seriously consider making it. Regardless how casual you are, anyone with a bare minimum of competence, a modicum of effort, and two friends can get their Mythic to 95. Given a slightly sustained effort, farming gil for the Scorias really isn't that hard either. If you compare a 99 Mythic to a 90 Empyrean, the 90 Empyrean is rarely (if ever?) better... even when that Mythic is Nagi, which is arguably one of the worst mythics. Choosing Kannagi is not a rational decision unless you are going to play so little with it that you might as well not have entered the drawing in the first place and could have just left it for someone that might actually use it.

I have no doubt that someone like the Kannagi guy will win the Rank 1 prize. I'm really hoping that I can win a Rank 3 prize, but I doubt I will. Best of luck to everyone!

Edited, Jul 15th 2012 2:28pm by Byrthnoth

Just to add additional details the Kannagi and the Mythic would both be staying at there 90 version and I'd not be upgrading them unless it was handed to me and I am a mostly solo only kind of guy with no strong ls affiliation making pick up groups for +2 I want/wanted got most 5/5 now for my jobs so I'm not going to get a Kannagi ever, other than through this event or others like it.

ItsAMyri is on to a winner with what they said they get it, also the Nagi would not be used if I won it so would be even more of a waste as I'd not play the job over others by choice and would rather continue my usual spot as Blm, Blu, Whm or Thf.

Okay, despite the feeling that I, too, disagree with choosing something other than a Mythic for Rank 1, I want you guys to stop insulting redpheonix for his choice on the matter. I don't care how stupid or idiotic you may feel it is, I want you to stop. It's not like he could go back and change his choice, so bashing him about it isn't going to change anything this time around anyway. Most of you are capable of approaching a subject in a logical, reasonable fashion, so just do that. I've always asked that if you're going to argue a subject with someone on here, just lay out the information you have available as to why you believe it's better. If they still don't believe or understand your point, just leave it alone. Berating them and insulting them is only going to cause more problems for you, not for them.

Edited, Jul 15th 2012 6:20pm by Vlorsutes

And yet, I still see tons of solo NINs on Briareus NMs, and tons of Kannagis out there. Somehow these people are getting it done instead of finding excuses.

Good way to avoid the spikes btw is to just TP on other things and WS the NM. Nobody's gonna bother stealing your NM unless you die, since the KI will go to you anyway if it drops.

I don't see what the big deal is. You're both as unlikely as each other to actually WIN the thing, so the entire argument is pretty moot. Just pick whichever weapon you happen to like the stats of best, regardless of how 'easy' it is to obtain. After all, at the end of the day its all about doing your job that tiny bit better, not about who's toy glows the most.

Most of my jobs are mages, so I really don't care much for the melee side of things much. That said, I went for a Yagrush for my rank 1 choice simply because of the bonus to Divine Veil. It's a great macro piece for ~na spells even if I rarely use it in melee. Still, I've got so little chance of actually winning it, that I'm not all too bothered by the choices I've made, for better or for worse.

It's all about having fun when all's said and done.

1) I have an Almace. Just because I recognize that it's hard for people busier than I am to solo doesn't mean I cannot or did not obtain one.

2) Since when are students on break losers?

3) Since when areunemployed people losers, especially when qualified people looking like mad can't even find work?

I'm not calling anyone losers, I'm saying they have more free time to spend on FF. If you only have a couple hours a day and no help, you will spend months making an empy. If you've got nothing going on until August (like me, summer break) and a few friends willing to help, you can get it done in under a week. For me, it took five days, three short sessions and two long (8+ hour) ones.

Your average worker or even student (during the school year) can't spend an entire Thursday monopolizing Gukumatz while the JP are asleep and the NA aren't home yet.

It's important to note that just because it's easy for you and me, that doesn't mean it's easy for the guy working two jobs, the guy whose friends drag him out into the light of day after work, or the girl drowning in her studies.

It's not a difficult concept to understand, but perhaps it is when you want to pretend your virtual accomplishments to be symbols of skill and status rather than time invested.

You misunderstand me. You were saying that these people can only get their emps done because they don't go to school/work (in other words, insinuating that only no-lifers can get their emps done). I'm telling you that's a load of **** and you should probably just speak for yourself only.

This is the correct answer. Any other line of thinking just shows a rather skewed perspective imo. Have fun, pick the prize you want, and if anyone has a problem with it tell them they can pay for your sub if they want to decide how you do things.

I can't say I approve of this lack of pony avatar.

so I am seeing people with the costume items out and about... are they staggering when they send through the prizes, or can we assume if there is nothing in our inbox we're big losers?

If not solo or group then that leaves one other option.
Both. SE have obviously cracked the Heisenberg principle and allow you to play with players who are at the same time both there and not there thus you're technically not playing solo but your not in a group either, but in a quantum superposition.