Soo... apparently Diadem has i280 weapons with higher WD than alexandrian/anima lux

[cakesphere]

For those curious, the RNG is, indeed, brutal. You have approximately a 0.1% of getting a weapon for your main. This doesn't include the RNG associated with unlocking Emergency Missions.

If true, the chance is approximately the same as getting the infinite drake off timewalking bosses in WoW.
I never thought I'd see the day where I'd take TW dungeon grinding in WoW over farming a BIS wep in ffxiv, but here we are.

So throw away rewards

It's not really a throw away reward when regardless of any offstats the weapon is far and above better than any other weapon in the game.

[Aniya_Estlihn]

It's not really a throw away reward when regardless of any offstats the weapon is far and above better than any other weapon in the game.

It really, really, really is throw away gear. It's pink gear, it has randomized stats and it will help you level in Stormblood.
If anyone still has this after they have hit 67 - 69, they need to be kicked out of a duty with extreme prejudice.

This gear will help in the leveling process, but will quickly be outclassed and tossed to the wayside. I don't think we should worry about now and should only be concerned about later; that being Stormblood.

[Rikuide]

It really, really, really is throw away gear. It's pink gear, it has randomized stats and it will help you level in Stormblood.
If anyone still has this after they have hit 67 - 69, they need to be kicked out of a duty with extreme prejudice.

This gear will help in the leveling process, but will quickly be outclassed and tossed to the wayside. I don't think we should worry about now and should only be concerned about later; that being Stormblood.

In what world will this be leveling gear? The vast majority of players will level a specific job through SB. Now, what are the chances that they receive one of the new 280 weapons for *that* Job?

There's only one reason for the new weapons being so much stronger than Alex/Relic; the dev's knew that they would need to incentivize the player base to run Diadem. That speaks volumes for their confidence in the 'new' Diadem.