Quote Originally Posted by sackm View Post
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To be fair, this game does nothing to help a player know what the actual effects of the stats are. Only by digging into the guts of the game and a hell of a lot of data collection do we have the stat weights and research we do. Not everyone has time/wants to dig into the forums (especially forums filled with people telling them how they are nub scrubs) and just want to play the game....

And the reason they probably have full i120 gear and only the i115 weapon specifically? Because no one runs the damned Crystal Tower anymore so there is no easy way to get the Encrypted Allagan Tomestone to buy the Poetics weapon, and some don't have a ton of gil coming in so they can buy a crafted HQ weapon.