burtang

took 4 days to get doing hunts, kinda stupid considering my bravara is like 4 books in 2 months later. just giving an fyi cause when i asked about novus people just called me an idiot without telling how to get a better weapon, hunts you can get 200 seals an hour or sands in a few. burtang takes one allagan tome from syrcus and then just hunt pretty much

*Burtgang actually

Also 7 of Rowena's Tokens with are 130 Soldiery a piece, so a total of 910 for all 7, plus another 390 Soldiery for the shield.

Makes it a choice between armor and weapon. Still its a route I am in the process of myself for a Warrior weapon, which takes 10 of those Rowena's tokens and one of the unidentified tomestones, or three weeks of my Soldiery cap plus 1 weeks ST loot.

I have Burt and novus curtana. Burt for DPS and Curtana for tanking (Acc/parry)

The biggest difference however is novus weapons will continue after 2.4 while burtgang and other sol weapons will be trash.

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Originally Posted by SirTaint

I have Burt and novus curtana. Burt for DPS and Curtana for tanking (Acc/parry)

The biggest difference however is novus weapons will continue after 2.4 while burtgang and other sol weapons will be trash.

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see i heard differently but nooen is ever specific between insults, i heard the geralt masterworks would continue their own branch. youre sure they wont? i like failingvat coil more than doing novus smh

cause if it doesnt that sucks again for me, my burtang is pali, my atma is bravara. i thought that caught my pali back up with burtang

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Originally Posted by Killabye

cause if it doesnt that sucks again for me, my burtang is pali, my atma is bravara. i thought that caught my pali back up with burtang

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Your PLD is caught up....until 2.4 where ilvl will go up once again. Even all the coil weapons we've farmed will be replaced by i135 or whatever the new coil3 weapons are. Vertical progression means not getting attached to any gear. It's nice they at least will continue the relic chain further.

burtgang was the goto weapon before hunt or novus was even introduced, that was especially true when progressing through coil. I got my burtgang and cleared T9 before i even finished my novus, imo if you are already farming T9 then there's no need to get both, one of them is just fine until the RNG gods award you with a HA blade.

They're making it remarkably easy to get weapons now because 2.4 is on the way. The only reason to spend the time to get a novus is because in 2.4 it can probably be upgraded without raiding.

If you can clear T9 and get the sword though, you're a step ahead of a lot of people

I don't agree with the "zodiac weapon can be upgraded" as a valid reason to do it. And here is why:
- When the atma weapon first came out, you had to spend all that time gathering atma... for a weapon that still only had the stats of an i90 weapon
- In the meantime, Leviathan i95 weapons drop like candy and take much less time to earn (even considering the ramp-up time to learn the fight).
- However, by the time I farmed up all the mythology for the animus and completed the books, I was getting unidentified allagan tomestones from T7 for an i100 piece.
- And way before I got 75 alexandrites for my novus, I was clearing T8 for the sands to upgrade it.

Couple all that with the availability of the tomestone in ST as well as the abundance of sands/oils to be earned in ST and hunts... what is the point of the grind of zodiac when so far SE has a history of making zodiac-equivalent weapons easy to get?

Gerolt masterworks are supposed to continue on from what I have heard as well. What effect that has on unweathered stuff is yet to be seen if any. Maybe Noct is a starting point of something more grand, same with even/daystar etc...

Might be interesting to see that happen. However, unweathering is prolly all we will see from the masterworks.