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Quote Originally Posted by Alienmonkey
I did count something like 21,000 empyrean weapons are made and only 6000 relic weapons from the census? If this is so, how is empyrean so much better than relic? This is ridiculous. What is going to be done to fix this. I await developer response.
Reopening this because there was no reason for this to be closed. Neither was the topic going offtopic nor anyone starting to call the original poster anything, but he is just locking his own topics to prevent further discussion.

My opinion:

Empyrean weapons are much easier to make, and can be done within a week, while a relic has to take more than a month and a mystic has to take more than 3 months to finish.

Include in the fact that empyrean weapons are generally better than the relic and mystic counterparts (with exceptions of Mandau and Nirvana, with a few more for jobs that are not interesting to me), there might be a strong reason why there are over 15k (not 21k if you take out the level 80 versions of the weapons) emp weapons out there.

Personal note to Alienmonkey: Don't bother trying to lock threads, somebody will just reopen them. In this case, me.