Quote Originally Posted by Alahra View Post
I'm not really sure why they moved away from the weapon structure from 2.x at all. It had a lot of really bad ripple effects throughout progression, both for raiders and non-raiders. At least they seem to have realized that and hopefully we'll see the old structure come back in 3.2.
It creates a bad ripple because the devs made it seem like a problem (delaying upgrades and apparently, delaying the relic questline). Realistically speaking, is there a problem with having three weapons at i210? It'd allow for crit/ss, det/ss, or crit/det distributions. I mean if it's for getting a weapon upgrade, then sure, but A3s has been a gigantic wall for most of the community anyway and they'd probably never see a i210 weapon until relic anyway, nor would it really help because A3s is mechanics dense as well.

Even if they were to go with the 2.0 structure, it wouldn't have changed much if they're going to still delay the relic questline in order to the novelty of having a i210 weapon intact (which i don't necessarily agree with in the first place, and certainly not a good reason to delay the i170 or even i200 upgrades to 3.15). Other than BRD/MC's i200, i205 and i210 weapon-damage calculations, I honestly didn't feel like there was a problem with the reward structure itself, just what it was put on top of.