Question about Allagan ilvl95

[Quiz]

Thanks LB. I never saw that post before (or else completely forgot about it if I did!)

[Lollerblades]

No problem

The Dev posts dissappear quite fast in the feed, easy to miss!

[Neo_Genesis]

The ilvl of the Allagan weapons, I'm more than clear on. However, I am wondering about the new "quest" that utilizes the new "Extreme Mode Primals" to increase our relic weapons again. Are they going to be increased to ilvl 95 or ilvl100? I can't seem to find anyone here discussing this. I could be wrong about what I read in the Q&A but I'm pretty sure that this is what they were talking about. However, they never specifically gave an exact ilvl increase. I'm curious to know if our "Relic+2" will be the same level as Allagan or a slight increase over them. This will probably correlate between the difficulty of Twintania and the difficulty of Ifrit, Garuda and Titan EM. If Twintania is still deemed "harder" content then I can see the new +2 relic being the same item level. However, if the new extreme mode primals are summarily harder, I wonder if they will allow the upgrade to be better. Just food for thought...

[aivedoir]

Are shields getting raised to lv 95 too?

[Alkimi]

so there is no point for me to bother getting a relic weapon i guess.

I'd still get a relic+1 for the job you're going to use in turn 5 regardless, especially if you're just starting out on it. No point gimping yourself and the rest of your party every week for that 1/9 chance that you'll save yourself 3 (soon to be 2) weeks of mythology tomes.

[Hanemakikaze]

The ilvl of the Allagan weapons, I'm more than clear on. However, I am wondering about the new "quest" that utilizes the new "Extreme Mode Primals" to increase our relic weapons again. Are they going to be increased to ilvl 95 or ilvl100? I can't seem to find anyone here discussing this. I could be wrong about what I read in the Q&A but I'm pretty sure that this is what they were talking about. However, they never specifically gave an exact ilvl increase. I'm curious to know if our "Relic+2" will be the same level as Allagan or a slight increase over them. This will probably correlate between the difficulty of Twintania and the difficulty of Ifrit, Garuda and Titan EM. If Twintania is still deemed "harder" content then I can see the new +2 relic being the same item level. However, if the new extreme mode primals are summarily harder, I wonder if they will allow the upgrade to be better. Just food for thought...

Relic won't be upgradable anytime soon, the entire point of the Allagan buff was to make relics inferior because they were extremely easy to obtain and very common. What you recieve at the end of defeating all 3 primals is a choice i90 weapon, how you choose them still hasn't been made clear though. Yoshi did say however, relic weapons would be upgradable in the far future just for the fact that they are "special" to many players(assuming they will still be far inferior to endgame dungeon weapons). And no, shields aren't going to ilvl95 if I remember correctly.

[Neo_Genesis]

Relic won't be upgradable anytime soon, the entire point of the Allagan buff was to make relics inferior because they were extremely easy to obtain and very common. What you recieve at the end of defeating all 3 primals is a choice i90 weapon, how you choose them still hasn't been made clear though. Yoshi did say however, relic weapons would be upgradable in the far future just for the fact that they are "special" to many players(assuming they will still be far inferior to endgame dungeon weapons). And no, shields aren't going to ilvl95 if I remember correctly.

Thanks for clearing that up.. That makes the 1-week lock-out on repeating the quest a lot more understandable.

[AlphaDragoon]

I kinda wish that the other gear that drops in T5 (Monk's Allagan Cuirass of Striking, for example) would be distributed among the other four turns. It's understandable that the weapons are buffed because they come from Twintania, and yet that other stuff is just as hard to get. I don't think it should be buffed too, but it should be in a place that you can get to it if they feel beating Twintania should = better stuff and they didn't buff it.

[Nikita]

Yoshida: The item level is a measure of the item's strength. When we're balancing difficulty and item performance, the upper and lower limits are based on a formula. The item level is used as the criteria in this formula. For example, in patch 2.1, the item level of Allagan weapons will be raised from 90 to 95. Since the limits on the stats of item level 95 equipment is predetermined, the higher performance will simply be based on that formula.

http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/119...w-with-Yoshida

[Quiz]

I'm bumping this because I missed the live letter and the rate the threads move is madness today, making it hard to find what I'm looking for. I've seen several people say that my original question actually went the way I thought it might?

Is it in fact true that the weapons stats are staying the same just the ilvl is getting increased, nothing more?