New Tomestone weapon vs Anima weapon

[Frederick22]

SE pretty much admitted they plan to nerf the hell out of Alexander Gordias Savage with the upcoming patch, due to overtight tuning causing it to be completely off the radar for way more players than they anticipated. If it becomes easy enough, there might wind up being more people in Midas than you may think.

I dont think most people will clear Midas Savage on less than 3 weeks.

[KaitlanKela]

I think it would depend on the class and what secondaries you're into.

As a SCH, the Anima weapon is going to trump pretty much everything else they throw at me, because of the crit. Since it's going to reliably be a good weapon every patch and it will always have crit on it, I'll just ignore the other stuff. I know that's not world-first progression quality, but it's by and far the most playtime efficient and that's what I need to prioritize.

[PArcher]

Watch the new tome weapon require a drop from A6S, like back in SCoB and FCoB, and 1300 Lore.


Popcorn is ready for the non-raiders flooding the forums with complaint threads

[Kaurie]

Dps, Weapon>Gear, usually the order

Always the order. At 210, the weapon equates to just over 1/3rd of your damage capabilities. For example, my Summoner has 3445 INT once all stats are weighted, and the weapon equals 1358 of that. Therefore, 39% of my damage output is based off the weapon, and 61% is based off the rest of my gear.

[Warlyx]

Watch the new tome weapon require a drop from A6S, like back in SCoB and FCoB, and 1300 Lore.


Popcorn is ready for the non-raiders flooding the forums with complaint threads

uhm u could get the weapon but u couldnt upgrade it until u got the A6 drop....

i wonder if the new trial weapon will be 220 or 215? Oo , the tomes for sure 220 upgradeable to 230

[Kaurie]

the tomes for sure 220 upgradeable to 230

Is this confirmed somewhere?

[PArcher]

uhm u could get the weapon but u couldnt upgrade it until u got the A6 drop....

i wonder if the new trial weapon will be 220 or 215? Oo , the tomes for sure 220 upgradeable to 230

Huh?

SCob abd FCoB tome weapons required a drop from t7/t11 to just get the weapon, on top of the tomes needed. To upgrade, you needed a drop from t8/t12.
I'm expecting this new one to be similar; need the drop from A6S to get the weapon, drop from a7s to upgrade, and the a8s weapon will be 5ilv higher than the upgraded tome weapon.

Also, expecting the ilv to be like this:
Primal - 215
Tome - 220
Upgraded Primal - 220
Upgraded tome - 230
Midas - 235

Also, gordias could get upgraded to 215 in 3.2,just like allagan got upgraded from 90 to 95

[Kaurie]

Huh?

SCob abd FCoB tome weapons required a drop from t7/t11 to just get the weapon, on top of the tomes needed. To upgrade, you needed a drop from t8/t12.
I'm expecting this new one to be similar; need the drop from A6S to get the weapon, drop from a7s to upgrade, and the a8s weapon will be 5ilv higher than the upgraded tome weapon.

Perhaps the weapons will require a drop from A7N, and the upgrade will be from A7S or so

[Warlyx]

Huh?

SCob abd FCoB tome weapons required a drop from t7/t11 to just get the weapon, on top of the tomes needed. To upgrade, you needed a drop from t8/t12.

uhmm....thats true my bad ^^;

Is this confirmed somewhere?

nope just speculations

[Brannigan]

The new tomestone weapon is probably going to require a drop from Alexander savage like in 2.2 and 2.4. My reasoning here is that they're adding Sephirot, who will be dropping *at least* 210, but probably 215, and adding a tomestone weapon with no raid requirement would put a 3 week lifespan on that content.

e: Whoops looks like someone took the words out of my mouth a couple posts up.