Quote Originally Posted by Shioban View Post
These weapons were ALWAYS intended to be a 'catch-up'.

They will always be underpowered compared to that of the next set of "top-tier" raiding weapons, as that's the development teams ideal.


Why would they ever make these weapons equal to the top-tier or even close to that, it almost defeats the purpose of doing the raid, the idea being "I've completed the final stretch of this raid content, and received my powerful weapon as a reward".

That's the general idea, that's how it's always going to be.
Well, considering it sounds like this i115 upgrade will be more than just an ilevel bump, there are going to be a lot of people who have better weapons than the HA stuff as they have better secondary stats melded. A i115 Stardust Rod Nexus with SSPD/DET will be better than the HA Staff with SSPD/CRIT.