Lightning Strikes Event

[Sephirah]

The reward is the weapons, at least as far as we know from what we've seen so far. It might be the same reward as you get from lower level fates, but that doesn't mean there is no reward.

@Hyrist: Yes, a very good solution would be to put the costume items on the vendor for purchase with the tokens you get from the fates, just like the past two events.

...you don't understand, the weapons are ALREADY in the game, and you can get ALL of them, RIGHT NOW, with the lowest level fate. There are no mythical lvl 45+ weapons awarded at the higher level fates so I don't know why you think they are being awarded by the higher level fates.

Adversely, if that WAS the case, then this conversation would be the exact same, but people would be complaining why they have to level up to get the "better" versions of the weapons.

So please tell me, if you can get the entire costume at lvl 13, and all the weapons at lvl 13, then why would ANYONE run the lvl 45 fates?

As things are right now, it appears that the intention of this event (aside from the obvious promotion of FFXIII) is:
ALL players will get access to the weapons
To receive the FULL costume you must complete all the fates including the higher level ones.

If you ask me, they are being very generous to the "low levels".

[Hyrist]

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So please tell me, if you can get the entire costume at lvl 13, and all the weapons at lvl 13, then why would ANYONE run the lvl 45 fates?

Hairstyle! >.>

Honestly, I don't care about the level of the equipment so much. That should be a non-factor here. You can argue that they want you to do all the content in order to get all of the reward, and thats why the costume is tiered while the weapons are access-able.

Conversely, if you want to experience the full Lightning Story, you're going to be doing the tiered quests anyways, so why should trinkets be held aloft?

It's a hard decision to make, and not everyone is ever going to agree with the choices SE makes.

Alternatively, THIS time around, they can make the armor tiered. and NEXT Time (the February version) you could simply buy the costumes through the Event NPC. This would suit both sides of the debate as those looking for exclusive, high level rewards will have the time period access to the full set. Then those who can't catch up in that time will simply be able to spend the event currency for the rest of the outfit.

[Sephirah]

Hairstyle! >.>

Honestly, I don't care about the level of the equipment so much. That should be a non-factor here. You can argue that they want you to do all the content in order to get all of the reward, and thats why the costume is tiered while the weapons are access-able.

Conversely, if you want to experience the full Lightning Story, you're going to be doing the tiered quests anyways, so why should trinkets be held aloft?

It's a hard decision to make, and not everyone is ever going to agree with the choices SE makes.

Agreed, but the point I'm trying to make is, that there is going to be some kind of reward that is gated to higher levels, regardless of what it is, it will always be there. There has to be some incentive there (other than the story, because let's face it, that by itself isn't going to pull that many people in)

[Brises]

...you don't understand, the weapons are ALREADY in the game, and you can get ALL of them, RIGHT NOW, with the lowest level fate.

Are you sure there won't be higher level versions later?

[Sephirah]

Are you sure there won't be higher level versions later?

They haven't released any information that would suggest they are. http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...tning_Strikes/

The hairstyle is also already awarded by the lowest lvl fate. So currently you can get all the weapons, gloves, and hair at lvl 13.

So in absence of any information at all about that, you assume they are not? Whatever makes you happy. Just don't state it as fact.

They've said "These are the rewards: Weapons, Costume/Hair". If you want to hope and wish for hidden rewards, ok....

If you visit the link above, you can mouse over each reward, they are ALL lvl 13.

[Brises]

They haven't released any information that would suggest they are. http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...tning_Strikes/

So in absence of any information at all about that, you assume they are not? Whatever makes you happy. Just don't state it as fact.