Underwhelming climax

So, people are killing Shinryu. Better, they're putting his ass on FARM STATUS.

We joked before the update about how adding a third Lunar abyssite would render the game broken, that that much power being potentially in player's hands would upset the balance by too much. Well, they added a third Lunar. At least we know that using Lunar require powerful Atma which still have to be acquired. So, how do we buck that trend and fuck the scale of power right in its face?

Killing Shinryu rewards you with an Abyssite of the Cosmos. Not Atma, mind you, but Abyssite. What does such an Abyssite reward you with? Among other things, and according to the current posts, 200k Primeval Brews.

Not 2,000,000. 200,000. One-tenth the cost. One brew turns into 10.

So, did you suck cocks and clear all of the bosses already? Did you assemble groups of people to farm 24/7 and get more time than was even possible to spend in one sitting? Are you among one of the few to have found and killed all of the Caturae so far? Well, congrats, you are rewarded for being a prick by being allowed to destroy every enemy in Abyssea 10 times for the cost of one.

I'm a little upset by this. A little jealous, I guess, but fuck. We spent hours in a zone tonight grinding pops to finish off two/three pieces of gear. 15 minute long fights on Summoner? It feels like a slap in the face to know that one guy can do as many kills as we did tonight in an hour, tops.

I'm already expecting the worst from it. People with those kind of resources currently are people like Ejin, or Belldandy. I can't wait to see them with completely finished Empyreal weapons across all jobs or something. When you're able to obliterate any enemy in 30 seconds, why NOT go ahead and fully pimp everything you can use?

I guess the light at the end of this is that we can fully upgrade Empy weapons/horns/shields ourselves when we get to that point, but... It sucks to be so far behind the curve from the guys who "earned' half of their cruor by being asleep or at work or wherever the fuck you go when you let people farm you time/exp/cruor.

Still. I hope this is just a lie or something so that I can still feel like we're doing well for ourselves. I thought we were bucking the system and being decent by not throwing ourselves into a huge shell and sucking cocks of JPs while raking in illicit funds, but it turns out that playing like a gaf and being a greedy prick just rewards you with the ability to be a bigger gaf, faster and cheaper.