New POTD floors in a few days..item speculation I guess?

[Radacci]

I'm more interested in the new weapons. Will the amount of upgrades increase? Will there be a collectible to earn during runs? Special chests?

ilv 255. yes it will increase; we're running to floor 200, would be shitty if 30 was cap (also it should cost more to get the new weps)

[Jetstream_Fox]

ilv 255. yes it will increase; we're running to floor 200, would be shitty if 30 was cap (also it should cost more to get the new weps)

If it's 255 then that weapon is absurd, not even worth the time given we have 150 more floors. The crafted weapon would still have better utility over the new PotD weapon, and even Sophia is a more reasonable grind vs having to go through 150 floors potentially 3 times to get the upgrades, the weapon would be better suited at 260, given how new Relic is likely going to bring it up to 260 maybe even 270, they've really put themselves in bind with this particular gear trend. Unless this relic step is going to have a 4th sadistic grind, I really don't see many people grinding out PotD to help gear like they did for 1-50.

[Lulu89]

If it's 255 then that weapon is absurd, not even worth the time given we have 150 more floors. The crafted weapon would still have better utility over the new PotD weapon, and even Sophia is a more reasonable grind vs having to go through 150 floors potentially 3 times to get the upgrades, the weapon would be better suited at 260, given how new Relic is likely going to bring it up to 260 maybe even 270, they've really put themselves in bind with this particular gear trend. Unless this relic step is going to have a 4th sadistic grind, I really don't see many people grinding out PotD to help gear like they did for 1-50.

For everyone that can clear SopEX or get Crafted weaps with easy sure.. but there will be and still ARE many out there that cant. And this will be good for them..This game is for both the Hardcore and the Casual players, most lad back casual players don't get 270 tome or Crafted/EX weapons very easily like most. So this will be a nice way for them to gear up alt jobs with out having to do much work..

It not always about if the weapon is good or bad, it all about the upgrade/ILv just to have it for most. BiS is always nice.. but mos dont give a rats ass about BiS and just want to injoy the game with a Ok-ish wepaon POTD gives them that with out having to feel like they need to farm 3-4tomes weapons or EX boss for all the next better ones.. AGAIN sure it nice to have BiS or 2nd BiS.. but its ok to just have the 3rd/4th BiS if it give you that iLv boost too.

[Ultimatecalibur]

If it's 255 then that weapon is absurd, not even worth the time given we have 150 more floors.

The assumption you have is that you need to do floors 101 to 200 to get Kinna (i255 PotD) weapons. Floor 100 is the final story floor and floors 101+ are the hardcore bonus floors.

During the announcement of PotD they explained that floors 1 through 50 were the casual learning floors, 51 through 100 were going to be harder and closer to Midcore in difficulty, and floors 101 to 200 would be Hardcore content.

Kinna weapons will likely only require finding silver chests and defeating bosses on Floors 51 through 100 (the goal will likely be +60/+60). Silver chests on floors 101 to 200 will likely just increase the Aetherpool over the Kinna weapon requirement to allow progression through the final 100 floors (likely to a max of +120/+120).

[Radacci]

If it's 255 then that weapon is absurd, not even worth the time given we have 150 more floors. The crafted weapon would still have better utility over the new PotD weapon, and even Sophia is a more reasonable grind vs having to go through 150 floors potentially 3 times to get the upgrades, the weapon would be better suited at 260, given how new Relic is likely going to bring it up to 260 maybe even 270, they've really put themselves in bind with this particular gear trend. Unless this relic step is going to have a 4th sadistic grind, I really don't see many people grinding out PotD to help gear like they did for 1-50.

i think you'd only need to get to floor 100, to get wep. btw, it already been data-mined, so it IS 255.
if it was 260 or even 270, there would be no point in getting shire weapon....before most ppl could even get it, that would be truly stupid (same with relic wep, if it's 270)
It offers an alternative to Sophia, with different stats. or just glam wep.

[Jetstream_Fox]

i think you'd only need to get to floor 100, to get wep. btw, it already been data-mined, so it IS 255.
if it was 260 or even 270, there would be no point in getting shire weapon....before most ppl could even get it, that would be truly stupid (same with relic wep, if it's 270)
It offers an alternative to Sophia, with different stats. or just glam wep.

3.4 came out about 5 weeks ago if I'm correct? Which if that's correct if a player wanted the Shire weapon they'd have two more weeks of farming A12 if they have done so consistently. Even so, if floors 51-100 are the ones that grant access to the weapon, there is no reason to believe SE will make the second half as easy as the first. That makes the crafted weapon a more viable option, maybe even Sophia, especially if you need to have +30 on your gear and didn't reset progress to go for other weapons.