Upcoming REMAI weapon upgrades

This is probably a really stupid question, but do you need to have a weapon in the final final final really final now not final form for the damage accmulation to begin? It's confusing because the digest post says you don't need to posess the weapon you're interested in upgrading, yet you have to have some relic/mythic/etc equipped (for the area you're in) to get the damage progress.

It appears, that you will gather "points" no matter what. and then you "spend" those points, on the weapon.

What I'm not sure on, is if there is a condition to start collecting said "points"

From what has been said by the devs so far, the way it seems to be planned to work:

1. Kill Wave3 bosses to earn points based on REMA category/zone with at least 1x person in the alliance with the appropriate REMA equipped.
2. Any points earned are alliance-wide, so you don't have to be the one dealing damage with the appropriate REMA weapon (else healers would be screwed after all,) and points are already accumulating silently in the background. We have no way of checking how many points we have earned until September when the augments go live (and I'm guessing will get added to the Currencies 2 screen.)
3. Starting in September, spend the points you have accumulated to augment the current final form REMA weapon.

The unanswered questions atm:

1. Are points still accumulated at all (even if at a lower rate) if no one in the alliance has the zone appropriate REMA equipped?
2. How many points are earned per fight?
3. How many points need to be spent per RP?
4. How do the new Divergence weapons fit in? Can they be aug'd using points from any zone? Can points be mixed/matched or do you have to choose a zone and get "locked in" to using a certain zone's points, similar to Oboro/PBR?
5. How do points accumulate for those who have the appropriate REMA equipped but do not deal damage with it directly by meleeing? BLM/SMN/etc. Basically, does it only matter that someone has the weapon equipped at all, or does someone actually have to be dealing damage directly with the weapon for it to matter?

That last question was clearly answered, the weapon doesn't have to be directly used to inflict damage, as they mention both physical and magic damage and that of other group members counting. They're just being really ambiguous with who has to have what and if everyone is earning points or not (since they mentioned it is saved to the character not an item)

They're not being vague... they literally don't know. They're going to change whatever they had in mind last minute because they don't have the resources to make it happen

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Originally Posted by Halley

They're not being vague... they literally don't know. They're going to change whatever they had in mind last minute because they said a heck of a lot more than they were supposed to (as a good portion of the details were still in Planning and not set in stone yet) and the backlash about this being locked to only Wave3 surprised them.

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Fixed that for ya. XD Everything so far from them indicates that they are going to go thru with what they said they had planned, PLUS they are adding alternative non-Wave3 routes to earn points. It's got nothing to do with a lack of resources in this case.