Quote Originally Posted by Vashkoda View Post
It has to do with game lore. RUN and GEO did not exist back in the crystal war era [(possible spoilers?)i.e., the allied forces Hydra Corps, wielding the brand spanking new relic gear that was supposed to turn the tide against the Shadowlord, didn't have representatives for RUN or GEO. Similarly, there were no RUN or GEO back in ancient Aht Urgan so they had no mythic weapons stored in the royal treasury. Similarly, there were no RUN or GEO in the lands we get to visit in the abyssea dimension, so they have no empyrean gear]. The game devs are not about to suddenly make these weapons available to other jobs when they can't find a logical excuse (per game lore) for why they would have them. Yes it sucks for those jobs, but at least we got ergons, and at least we are on the new Aeonic weapons, which also have new weaponskills with new skillchain properties. And yes, it sucks to have to obtain difficult-to-get weapons as the only way to play your job the way it was meant to, but we accepted that when they released Epeolatry.
Ergons are mythic equivalents, so I am not bothered by there being no mythics in ToAU for RUN and GEO. As far as SE not wanting to do this for the sake of game lore, I think that's just a great excuse for them to do nothing. Game Lore wise, it makes absolutely no sense for Rune Fencer, the master of the great sword, to be able to use less "ultimate" great swords than Paladin, a job that can merely use Great Swords.

Secondly, I would not say that Ergons are "difficult" to get. They are highly time consuming, obnoxiously expensive (moreso than Mythics and Relics, not sure about Empyreans), and have a lot of requirements. And I do not accept that I should need it to play the job the way it was meant to be played. If you say that about AF/Relic/Emp armor, then I can accept that it. But when these weapons become the expected norm and you can't reach that norm without it, it's bad game design.

Finally, I have one more issue, that maybe I am wrong about. Were Blue Mages, Corsairs, and Puppetmasters represented by the Hydra Corps? Granted they are not on relic weapons, but they do have relic equipment that drops there. I also don't think there were any Dancer or Scholar weapons stored in the Aht Urgan treasure vault, but again, I may be mistaken. If I'm wrong, then no harm done. But if I'm right, then there is an enormous break from precedent to have done that for those jobs but not for RUN and GEO.