Creradien

Agreed. This is a seriously stupid decision by NCWest. Imagine 80% of the player base already redeemed the evolved stones, there's no point in limiting the remaining 20%. There's nothing to be achieved by doing something like this without officially announcing it. Why do data miners have to do the work of employees that are being paid to do this job? And why are players expected to be active in unofficial communities of such data miners to receive news like this? I am sure this change was on the To-Do list of the person responsible at NCWest but forgot to implement it on the release day of the event along with Patch Notes. So, instead decided to do it at the end of the event... Either way, a very stupid decision by a very incompetent employee...

I cannot speak for FFXIV since I do not play it or follow it. World of Warcraft still uses GCD, I don't know where you got your information from. It is not something you can tinker with in the settings. The decision to remove or adjust GCD from certain "Items" (Like Trinkets) and "Skills" is made by developer and never is in the hands of an individual player, and this is done through smaller patches within a season of an expansion based on player feedback and testing.

I have experienced the same thing with my alt character who has received both the achievements for finishing "100 runs above Stage 10" and "50 runs above Stage 30" and have not yet received a single mythical accessory from AD (no ring, no earring, no necklace). After hitting "100 runs above stage 10" achievement, I have manually started counting the number of runs and I am currently sitting at 152 runs without any accessory. On my main, I started doing AD on the second day of release and the mythical ring dropped at Stage 24 while climbing with a pug group. Climbed all the way till Stage 41 without seeing an Earring or Necklace. But I eventually had both of them drop on Stage 31 on the second week which took roughly 150 runs in total to get all three accessories. This made me question the drop rate as well, if the drop rate was indeed nerfed recently. Not seeing a single accessory drop even after 152 runs (with both achievements completed) feels ridiculous.

Most people in this game don't want to admit when they're wrong even for things such a simple as this, it is a childish immature behavior