So, Soldiery Weapons

[Lemon8or]

Because unless you beat t7/8 in a random PUG and won it by roll or your static is done with getting the DPS soldiery weapons, you won't get the Unidentified Allagan Tomestones or Sands of Time needed to get the Weathered Yagrush or Yagrush. I know my group just beat t8 on Sunday and I, as a DPS has priorities on Soldiery weapons to keep upping our DPS. The better the DPS, the more Coil you can do so most group opt to gearing out DPS first with the guaranteed drops.

[Edeline]

Animus on WHM is more than enough to heal all the current patch content. By the time you take to cap soldiery weekly, you could have farmed the atmas and animus books. Then, you'll keep upgrading Animus on new content while your Yagrush will be left behind. You're 'wasting' an Unindentified Allagan Tomestone someone else could have got to improve their dps and make your runs smoother, while heals wouldn't improve that much to be really noticed. Unless your whole group already has them and you're the last one getting the tomestone and you don't feel like farming Animus.

[Songi]

Did you read what I said? I never said it would be 115. I actually said it wasn't going to be 115 and specifically said it was going to be 110. Reading comprehension man. You need some.

2.4 = Please look forward to it.

[Naunet]

Animus on WHM is more than enough to heal all the current patch content. By the time you take to cap soldiery weekly, you could have farmed the atmas and animus books.

Depends on your luck.

[Morzy]

Personally I think the weathered weapons are just a temporary weapon you'll replace in a few months. Whereas, as people have mentioned, the Relic weapon will continue to grow.

Plus at this point is it really worth spending all of that soldiery on a item when the Novus is coming out soon and will be the exact same item level? It seems like the realistic route is getting the Relic.

The Atma might be annoying but you only have to do it once.

[Orophin]

I'm going to have my i110 weapon from Soldiery long before I have a Novus, so while it does set me back a few weeks on getting some other gear with Soldiery, I'd rather have that immediate impact instead of waiting however many weeks after the patch hits to be able to get my Animus upgraded.

I think at this point the only regret I have is not pursuing a different weapon for one of the two paths, as I did BLM for both Soldiery and Animus and I find myself playing SMN more and more now and the only thing I have for it is a non upgraded Leviathan weapon.

[axemtitanium]

Weathered Yagrush (i100) has better itemization than Thyrus Animus (i100), so it's the better choice. If Novus (i110) customization is worth a damn, it might be better than Yagrush (i110) but we'll have to see. That said, Yagrush is almost guaranteed to be a damn sight faster/easier to obtain than any Novus weapon owing to the atma and myth farm, regardless of what the Novus questline includes.

[KamikazeMan]

Relic will be 115 in 2.4 when High Allagan gets phased out by another raid weapon. In terms of progression the relic will never be equal to the endgame weapon drop.

That wouldn't make sense. 110 in 2.28 is confirmed and we know we're getting another upgrade in 2.3 (unless it gets delayed)...which brings us to 115 because all weapon upgrades for endgame seem to increase in ilvl by 5-10. For all you know, being able to upgrade it to ilvl 115 may require beating T9 as a prerequisite.

[KamikazeMan]

Weathered Yagrush (i100) has better itemization than Thyrus Animus (i100), so it's the better choice. If Novus (i110) customization is worth a damn, it might be better than Yagrush (i110) but we'll have to see. That said, Yagrush is almost guaranteed to be a damn sight faster/easier to obtain than any Novus weapon owing to the atma and myth farm, regardless of what the Novus questline includes.

Unless you're not able to get a group to beat T7 and (hopefully) obtain the required item for the weapon upgrade. In that case, farming for atma and myth is a better choice while you do get a group together.

[Songi]

That wouldn't make sense. 110 in 2.28 is confirmed and we know we're getting another upgrade in 2.3 (unless it gets delayed)...which brings us to 115 because all weapon upgrades for endgame seem to increase in ilvl by 5-10. For all you know, being able to upgrade it to ilvl 115 may require beating T9 as a prerequisite.

More than likely the upgrade in 2.3 will be like Atma/Animus progression we have now. No ilvl boost but stats will increase or be further modified.