Quote Originally Posted by RobbieH View Post
I still don't see how i235 is useful, let's say you don't raid, how is it useful? Saving a few seconds in dungeons so you can go afk in Limsa faster?
To give players a sense of progression and something to work towards.

25dex more would roughly equal to 2.5 weapon damage. (IIRC WDamage to mainstat ratio was 1:10). So if the 235 offers >3WDamage more (I don't know just guessing as I do not play melee) it would be better, despite having suboptimal secondary stats. Not that you'll ever notice that difference in real gameplay scenarios. Deltas this tiny are purely academic in nature.

As i said: placing the 235s in extreme mode was a misstep, because the weapon misses a target audience that might benefit: people that only have a 230 and do not raid/do relic (or like me: do relic slowly over months, because they don't like to grind hardcore).
I fully understand that raiders might not care about the weapon at all.

Bottom line: its a subscription game. They have to implement stuff and gate/timesink it if they want to coerce continued pay from players. That's your relic in a nutshell.