2.35 "week after next"?

[Gardes]

Not likely. ATMA increased the ilvl to allow for the stat increases from the books.

Regardless, even a full stat atma that hasn't been turned into an animus does not have the stats worthy of an i100 weapon. It's the oddest step of the 3 and clearly SE doesn't really care to have a uniform rule. Even ilvl damages are not uniform. i90>95 is +1wd while i110>115 is +2wd and i95>100 is +2wd. As far as I can see, yoship can and will do whatever he wants.

Yes that doesn't confirm anything either way.

I'm just thinking about a situation where you have Novus at i110, and then it gets raised to i120 at the same time that we get i130 (or i135 weapons). Basically, if they wait that long, Novus will be complete junk to anyone who's serious about their gear.

Ha. I made a post about this about this 3-4 weeks before 2.3 hits.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post2189575

If shiva provides i120 weapon upgrades instead of just i115 weapons (like what levi provided compared to i95 allagan), early coil raiders would just get her weapons on the side as they prepare for 3rd coil. Even if she provides i115 weapons only, that'd still faster than whatever upgrade novus gets in 2.4 (it will be a huge grind). That is unless shiva provides out of date i110 weapons like ramuh. Then people will just stick with hitting t9 until i115 weapons drop and attempt 3rd coil. Then at that point, relic will be something desirable asap for raids if gerolt style weapons are gone from coil.

So at the end of the day, at the rate of grind we're going with, relic line will never be top of the line or 1st choice for early raiders unless SE starts removing options from players (what little of it) or minimize the grind by alot.