Haha. I was just in another thread writing about the ridiculous matching in another mode. Regarding Sage, at a certain point (cross ;) ) the game stops being a competitive game and turns into a feast for the grossly OP players. Some modes, intentional or not, are designed to keep a mass amount of people from progressing. Keeping the player stagnant and unable to advance in a reasonable amount of time. If you aren't among the top players in sage it will take you several months to get the advance runes required to max on a single equipment. The game becomes even more tedious because of it.

Those people who are OP should fight each other or have their own sage. Maybe extend cross to more clusters so enough people will be in the sage. The moderately powered people can have their own sage and the casual player or lowly powered can have their own sage. This would introduce more competitiveness in sage; maybe even drive more people to spend because the competition is there. If you read this and have the power to influence this, pass the posts on will you?