In general, until they make an official announcement, saying, “This is what we’re doing to R/M/E; these are the stat. increases.”, I don’t think saying what they should/shouldn’t do is going to make a big impact since they’ve stated we have a plan now, and it launches sometime in November.

What I’m confused with is a lot of these posts popping up saying, “Well I think Emp should be made a bit better than Relic, I think it’s harder to get”, or the reverse saying, “Well I think Relic should be made a bit better than Emp, I think it’s harder to get.” All these weapons - R/M/E currently are useless when compared to the SoA content weapons, even the most gimp weapons from SoA.

R/M/E were all relatively equal, in general; yes there were some exceptions, but over all equal to the other weapons of the same type. My biggest concern is having them be useful at all; lets start with that. I say for now just bring them all up together, how they were before (SoA - When shit hit the fan.). All these posts about Emp should, Relic should, Mythic should are annoying; it’s not about making whatever weapon you decided to go for being the best or others being made better because you think it’s hard to get; quite frankly, to be blunt, most of us don’t give a shit. Let’s start with having them being useful at all, you can’t even use them in any SoA end-game, if you can call it that, they need to be useable first. After they’re usable and even able to be considered viable weapon options, then by all means; open your own thread about how your weapons needs to be the best because you’re the one that earned it.

I do really hope whatever they have planned in November Update is worth the wait; some of my friends say, “I’ll come back when they fix R/M/E.” Others are saying, “Naw even if they fix R/M/E it’s too late, it’s been months, I’m moving onto something else.” I’ve noted that something else seems to end up being WoW and FFXIV, since they are so much alike. At any rate, I’m on board with the first half; fix R/M/E I’ll probably stay; keep neglecting it much longer, I too will be moving onto something else; most likely joining a lot of my other friends that quit FFXI, for the same reasons, losing so many months of achievement for weapons that destroy them in stats and take less than two weeks to obtain being probably the top of the list reason. If R/M/E are anything less than these weapons, they will have no point; the time/Gil invested into making any of them will be way to great to matter in the long run. So an update not bring them above would be pointless. I hope they have the common sense to realize that people will take the easiest path of least resistance; which means unless R/M/E are better, even by only 3%, there will be no one willing to work them up, which would make this update very pointless…