Greetings. I figured with the R/E/M weapons being upgraded after the whole delve weapon fiasco, I’d write this post since you’re working on R/E/M weapons at the moment anyways. I’m not sure if there already a forum for this - if there is, please move it there.

Now I know a lot of you are going to say this post is just an empy holder complaining about their trial but it’s not. I will be using raw stats taken from the 2012 Vana’diel census to show the vast disparity between the 90-95 empy trial and the relic and mythic 90-95 trials.

For starters I had my friend do all the calculations as he does not have any R/E/M so there would be no internal bias skewing the calculations. I do not expect you to blindly believe these calculations though, rather I would encourage you to look at the numbers yourself from the census and calculate it out to see what you come up with. I will list all the numbers for these calculations below but for 90-5 trial the percentage of weapons at or above 95 for each weapon is: relic 94%; mythic 87%; empyrean 0.83%. While the relic and mythic hit a roadblock at 95-99, the empyrean hit it a stage early. I do not know if this was intentional. If it was, I think the player base would like to know the reasoning behind such an arduous trial; if it wasn’t, we ask while making the various changes to R/E/M to fix it as the numbers show a great imbalance in the trials. This is very important as the fixes are only slated to apply to level 99 weapons. The numbers below show percentage of original weapons at or above that stage.

Relic:

16568 at 4th stage or better [100%]

15582 at 5th stage or better [94%]

14951 at 80+ [88%]

14287 at 85+ [86%]

13707 at 90+ [83%]

12897 at 95+ [78%]

1960 at 99+ [12%] *1

Mythic:

578 unlocked or better [100%]

557 at 80+ [96%]

555 at 85+ [96%]

535 at 90+ [93%]

505 at 95+ [87%]

329 at 99+ [57%]

Empyrean:

72840 at 80+ [100%]

65682 at 85+ [93%]

26976 at 90+ [38%] *2

593 at 95+ [0.83%] *3

550 at 99+ [0.78%]

*1: The low numbers may be the result of the relative newness of the Arch Dynamis Lord at that point in time.

*2: This is possibly due to people stopping when they had unlocked the weaponskill.

*3: This is where Heavy Metal Plates come into play.