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.
Funny, because originally, Relics were on par with Coil weapons. It was the hardcore raiders whining that changed that. And I for one think this needs to be reversed. it takes far more work, and effort, and time, to attain a maxed out relic nowadays (along with a literal fountain of money), than it does to learn SE's song and dance routine to walk through Coil. Coil gear shouldn't be outclassing a Relic, ever.