Quote Originally Posted by Berethos View Post
And yet the "strongest" line of reasoning for adjusting it all has to do with alternatives - namely how the process to 210 was originally described as being designed in its current fashion because it was meant as the equivalent alternative to the only other item level weapon at the time, and so the process was meant to be the time based equivalent to getting a 210 weapon in Gordias Savage.
It was meant as an alternative to the Gordias Savage weapon for people who needed those weapons to clear A4s (and, to a lesser degree, the previous floors), where those weapons dropped (there's a reason A7s drops the weapon upgrades this time, not A8s). Not for random people who wanted a 210 weapon for running experts or whatever. You don't need the best weapons in the game if you just run Experts every day or do an occasional Extreme primal. You really only need them if you do Savage, and only then.