Level 99 Relic, Mythic, Empyrean, and WoE Weapons

[Daisansha]

I just don't understand why RME holders are subject to a large hurdle to get their weapons current again?
RMEs themselves already take a considerable amount of: time, money, or both, to be able to even get the base weapon. From there, they already take another hurdle to even get to 119. Why does it seem difficult to give players that already own RMEs to be able to easily upgrade to make their weapon equal to Aeonics?

It does not make sense to me.

The quests to make aeonics are not easy, whereas REMs are easy but can require quite a bit of time. Why should you get upgraded to the best weapons in the game with little to no effort? By the sounds of Grekumah's post you will be able to get the upgraded REMs with effort and not almost impossibly difficult content like aeonic weapons making requires.

[Daisansha]

I realize that our worries have most likely fallen on deaf ears, but I guess I will ask one last thing. Does this mean straight gil or items you can buy from the ah? Either way, I see a lot of RMT's happening around February. While I appreciate the cryptic hints you have given us, I would like to ask why the devs think it is fair to subject REM holders to what appears to Aeonic level quests after all of the other quests they have to do just to get to 119. Battle content would appear to mean escha or unity, given the level of the weapon attained. It would then follow that the quest is something akin to the current Aeonic quest line. So REM's have to do everything to get to 119 to then do basically what an Aeonic has to do, while the aeonic only has to do the one quest? If the rem's became stronger by a good margin over aeonics, this would be fair, but you have said that they will be "on par" with Aeonics. Where is the justice here? Do the devs want only the aeonics used, while the original best weapons are sidelined due asinine unfairness?

As a side note, I will admit that maybe we of the player base may be thinking the worst, but quite frankly, the track record gives us little else to hold onto. If it is straight gil that can be used, I'm already calling the 100 million mark as the lowest start, and that is being conservative based on record.

For you to say that it will be an aeonic level quest is ridiculous on your part. Grekumah said you can make progress steadily by battle content and also can make progress by gil. This is not aeonic. Aeonic does not allow steady progress by means of gil. It is get 50k beads, then kill all the pop NMs in each of the three zones. Considering how difficult the aeonic quest is (no one has been able to complete it because it is so difficult), the two quests can't even be compared.

[Vae]

Aeonic does not allow steady progress by means of gil.

There is NOTHING in FFXI that cannot be bought with gil.

[Angemon]

If you can only reach 300k you aren't doing things correctly. Just using your sparks alone you can get 1m from capped sparks and you can get that an endless amount of ways. Not trying to defend how they are doing this but to say you only have around 300k at most times is kinda sad given how this game throws gil at you in practically everything you can think of.

[YosemiteYogorockBlondelle]

If you can only reach 300k you aren't doing things correctly. Just using your sparks alone you can get 1m from capped sparks and you can get that an endless amount of ways. Not trying to defend how they are doing this but to say you only have around 300k at most times is kinda sad given how this game throws gil at you in practically everything you can think of.

Then more in details please? What/what item and where or how in what way/methods carried out to reach that end gil goal, plus thanks Ange!

Edit: Also Note a path for that same goals in that amount of gil that can be done in a very short hour or maybe 2 in the very same day, if its possible even too!?

2nd Edit: Well I always save my RoE sparks for only using them on skill up books and tomes but after I always use those sparks on the skillups books/tomes they're gone quickly, Sorry!

[Tidis]

An AR2 run a day alone should get you at least a stack of alexandrite, an easy 600k right there.

[Shirai]

An AR2 run a day alone should get you at least a stack of alexandrite, an easy 600k right there.

Apart from that, you can run Dynamis, which should also net a nice amount of gil.
When there's no campaign going, Walk of Echoes makes an easy living farming coins, dies and residue as those are always in demand.
And even on a lower ilevel that one's very easilly doable, especially since it also allows trusts these days.

And apart from the WoE stuff, selling things shouldn't be too hard either, Dynamis currency and Alexandrite can be sold on AH since the november or december patch.

And sorry to be incredibly blunt here, Yogorock; But if you have so much trouble getting gil, how and why on Vana'diel did you make a legendary weapon?
If you haven't, this doesn't apply to you. (yet)

[shaduf]

Dynamis is a simple fast easy way to get gil

[Malefactor]

Do these REM updates include shields(ochain/aegis)?

[Vae]

Guys, seriously, it's blatantly obvious what's going on here, come on. They're making it as annoying as humanly possible, to force you into having a goal for the foreseeable future.

By forcing you into an afterglow path it more or less ensures that you'll spend thousands more hours on the trials. None of you will quit, you'll never quit. You'll piss and moan and do the trials, then ask for more punishment.