Bests Bows?

[Sessurea]

They are for people who cannot, or do not want to participate in end game raiding. .

The 130 bow is a piece of crap and every bard should aim for the yoichi bow. You can't plan to get dreadwyrm. And lastly, 135 Yoichi will beat the dreadwyrm, if optimally melded.

Also I'd say most ppl getting 125 relics are doing so because t9 took a big poop on them and they were using UAT weaps right up to 2.4. So np, 135 relic in less than 2 weeks.

Also it doesn't waste as much time as you would think. I did yoichi very casually in January ( atma-zodiac ). No more than a few hrs/day, and probably only like 3-4 days/week.

Atma = few hours.
animus semi sux, but hey, theres no rng in this step
novus is simple considering the rain of soldiery now.
Nexus is a joke, receiving a whooping 50% nerf.
Zodiac was maybe the easiest step imo. for the 16 dungeon drops I aimed for 4/day.

[Tex_Mex]

The 130 bow is a piece of crap and every bard should aim for the yoichi bow.

Also it doesn't waste as much time as you would think. I did yoichi very casually in January ( atma-zodiac ). No more than a few hrs/day, and probably only like 3-4 days/week

To address these couple of comments: The 130 bow is certainly not BiS, but there is NO content in the game that cannot be easily completed with the 130 magitek bow. Sure, you will miss out on a small amount of DPS, but it is not like it matters if you beat T13 in 12 minutes or if you beat it in 12:30. Still a win.

And as far as your minimal time commitment. 3-4 hrs /day, 3-4 days per week still amounts to 12-15 hrs per week. I only have roughly 20 hrs per week to play ENTIRELY (full time job, married, one kid on the way), and the majority of that time is spent on raiding with my guild (3-4 nights/week) and on expert roulette/WoD. Any additional time I have goes towards hunts and ST/CT for carboncoat.

12-15 additional hours is not at all feasible for me, so i do not even consider it.

[QuinceTaru]

A little bit off topic, but do you just all assume Zodiacs going to 135 or did i miss a dev post or something? Cause if its confirmed then it will make my day!

[SirTaint]

A little bit off topic, but do you just all assume Zodiacs going to 135 or did i miss a dev post or something? Cause if its confirmed then it will make my day!

Not confirmed but highly likely.

The only thing confirmed is there are 12 new ATMA to obtain....how and where is unknown.

[ServerCollaps]

12 coil bosses = 12 atmas :'D

what about that idea?

[Tex_Mex]

12 coil bosses = 12 atmas :'D

what about that idea?

Well considering that Zodiac weapons are designed for casual players (players with lots of time that are not really devoted to any end game raiding), this would not make much sense. The content will be much more time intensive and much lower difficulty than what is required in Coil. Think dungeon/fate/hunt farming. Maybe something like 12 atmas - 12 S rank hunts......... lol that would piss a lot of people off lol

[Ooshima]

Not confirmed but highly likely.

The only thing confirmed is there are 12 new ATMA to obtain....how and where is unknown.

Able to provide source? 12 new atmas? D:

EDIT: okay nvm, found it.

[Kuroyasha]

Able to provide source? 12 new atmas? D:

EDIT: okay nvm, found it.

This..This makes me sad. Can you link source?

[Ooshima]

This..This makes me sad. Can you link source?

It was info from data mining so I suggest you google it yourself, I don't think I can link it here.

[MrCookTM]

A little bit off topic, but do you just all assume Zodiacs going to 135 or did i miss a dev post or something? Cause if its confirmed then it will make my day!

I think it's the combination of yoshi stating the final zodiac stage will be the most powerful weapon in the game, us knowing the next zodiac stage will be the final one (well at least for 2.x patch cycle) and relic increasing ilvl by 10 in every stage except for novus -> nexus.