Level 99 R/M/E and WoE Weapons Follow

I understood the adjust to mean that there would be no additional trials. This is what I expected since their original announcement did not mention any extra trials.

If you went through the pain to obtain a lv99 relic, then your lv99 relic will once again be relevant.

Edited, May 22nd 2013 5:08pm by xypin

There will probably some quest or requirement, but it won't be a long drawn out one like collecting two hundred Nakuul toenails.

Is it weird that I'm starting to like the director a lot more than I like the playerbase itself? I'm not really comfortable with this, yet I find myself sympathizing with him and having to deal with a decade of badly designed legacy events and items and trying to find a balance that lets him introduce new content without making people that refuse to let the status quo change ragequit.

I honestly think they should boost the 85, 90 and 95 versions as well. People still put more work in than what delve apparently required (as long as you got in before 20 minute NM) - obviously the boost should not be as much, but it would be silly to MASSIVELY upgrade 99 and not scale up other "complete" stages as well.

They are gonna need to do something else with regard to empyreans, because in the current state of vastly diminished interest in Voidwatch, finishing the HMPs and dross/cinders is going to prove too difficult.

I'd be inclined to agree that the aftermath are what makes empyrean weapons unique, but you now have to factor in that these weapons will have to be at level 99 to compete.

Masamune (90): 114 DMG +15 STR Aftermath: ODD

Tsurumaru: 243 DMG ACC+ 35 ATK+25 "Save TP"+ 25%

The latter might as well have "Aftermath: Always deals double damage".

There are a few R/M/E that are more for utility than damage, but for the most part the new weapons blow the empyreans away. Speculating here, but if the pattern of the Delve weapons being slightly stronger than R/M/E even after adjustments holds up; unlocking empyrean weaponskills for all weapons of a specific weapon type will only widen the gap. Out of the total number of empyrean weapons that are 85 or higher, the total number that are 99 is incredibly small.

Oh well, I guess on the bright side nobody took issue with any aspect of WoE or VW and they are still wildly popular

Add to that, Skirmish is simply not done and even if you got a well augmented GA out of it the people who don't want your 90 Ukon don't want your Skirmish weapon either. Instead of coming on a DD job that would be perfectly fine for farming plasm and that you've treated with care, you need to go out and half-*** a support job so you can get in. Sure you'll drag down the plasm rate more than if you came on your 90-emp WAR, but the shouters probably won't care. They're far too "smart" to see how stupid they really are.

Edited, May 25th 2013 10:23am by Camiie

I don't think you're wrong, but tying old content to new content always seems to end badly. It wasn't much fun farming pictures to do ZNM, after all.

It's silly really but basicly it comes down to. If you have an average dancer verse an average gear war. The war wins. Most people don't want to take the chance that you might happen to have a amazingly geared harder to spec out/have to work harder to perform jobs.

I had a top tier pup at 75. Didn't stop people passing it up for a warrior that tp'd in str rings and mained a great axe you got form one of the first 3 ranks of campaign.

What don't you like about your situation? If you don't have the means to 99 your weapons, then there is a viable alternative that also happens to be less effort overall.

I happen to think that any upgrade to 99 weapons will not be free. Just because it won't involve the magian system doesn't mean the upgrade won't require some work. If people with 99's had to fetch or defeat something difficult in order to upgrade their weapon, would you feel better?