FFXI R/M/E Thoughts:

[FaeQueenCory]

Can you point me in the direction where Matsui says that? Genuinely curious.

Honestly.... I would really love to.... but it was FOREVER ago.
And since I am not crazy... I never thought it would be buried in the forums long enough to be saved...
Who knew that that would be the only word about the update for half a year.... T_T

But basically: Matsui used the one-handed swords for comparisons.
Burtang was updated to be 1dmg less than Buramenkah. (thusly, 119 level)
And Excalibur and Almace were a sizeable drop of dmg below them... (I wanna say 20pts... but it might have been as high as -30dmg...) so that's basically equivalent to Halahuinic... but slightly better. So really it's possible (even probable) to put them at 115ish instead of 113. I just used the second best swords as an iLv comparrison.

Matsui only gave #dmg and delay... this was like a month before the whole stick fake skill on stuff update... so... yeah.
But I remember that Burtang was -1dmg from Buramenkah, and Excalibur and Almace were a tier lower.

The iLv association is my own doing. (though I feel that stating mythics will be 119 isn't any different than what Matsui said.)

Again, sorry I can't find the post exactly... it's been buried under a half-year's posts.

R/M/E were all relatively equal, in general;

Except not. Mythics have always been the largest reward for the largest time invested.
Relics and Empys are pretty much the same. Just different kinds of time sunk into them. (farming $ vs farming chunks of monsters)
But Mythics have pretty much 100% completion of ToAU as a starting point.

And Matsu HAS give us a statement.... but it was forever ago and only dealt with the base damage because it was before the fake skill update.
Yeah. THAT long ago.
Mythics will be equal to the Delve Mega Boss weapons.
Relics and Empys will be below them, but still viable.