Post Mutant Weapons(i280) You've Seen So Far

[Magic-Mal]

Credit goes to Howard Moon o/

I got some math done on this weapon and when I compare it to an Anima, it's pretty insane how the Devs released these like this. I weighed out a full i275 Crit/SS BLM Anima weapon.

The Anima weighed out as 255.2
The Coven weighed out as 308.7

Thats a 53.5 point advantage over an i275 from just a measly "5 ilvls". For BLM that equals 4.5 weapon damage.

If HW is anything to go by, 1st dungeon(Lv51) gave i120. 2nd(Lv53) gave i130. 3rd(Lv55) gave i136. And BiS weapons would still be better than those. 4th dungeon(Lv57) gave only i142. 5th dungeon(Lv59) gave i148. So unless there's a 4.5 weapon damage boost total within those 13 ilvls, your i280s will last you to 70. IF Stormblood is similar to HW. And no... you likely won't be able to buy a better weapon from a vendor because they only sell NQ : )

[Hanayumi]

I think the ilv280 weapons are fine, they're pretty far from easy to obtain, rng emergency mission, mildly difficult fight, rng its a weapon you can use and rng roll vs a ton of people, so...yeah... Its simply just incentive, should make Daidem last at least till Bloodstorm, I mean cant see many people running diadem after a while if it only gave the sunbrust gear. Though really wish there was more stuff for spoils, another mount, a few more minions, ventures, the rarer dyes maybe, heck Id take food mats that are only from scrips, especially if they finally had hq ones... XD

[Aellae]

Just obtained.

[Stitches1974]

Just obtained.

Congrats. Hopefully you have a ninja to put that on.

[Lunafreya]

Why SE, why am I paying $17 a month for a game that gives players the very best weapons in the game based completely on pure dumb luck, instead of rewarding skill (raiders) or time (Anima grind)?

You might as well sell Deepest Gobdip on the MogStation to cover all of your player base.

Do any of you actually play your own game?

Great post. I wonder what Yoshida will say about diadem weapons compared to Anima.

[Remedi]

He said that it's comparable to: going to las vegas finding a coin from the ground and scoring jackpot.
As such he thinks anima weapons are fine and apparently he confirmed only 1 in the kill will get a weapon

[SuperZay]

Why SE, why am I paying $17 a month for a game that gives players the very best weapons in the game based completely on pure dumb luck, instead of rewarding skill (raiders) or time (Anima grind)?

You might as well sell Deepest Gobdip on the MogStation to cover all of your player base.

Do any of you actually play your own game?

I grinded 1 million MGP several months doing TT matches and choco races and awful GATEs for a Fenrir mount and some people got it just by winning a weekly lottery. Should I say that weekly lottery should be removed now? Absolutelly not. Not sure why you can't act the same way, just accept that extremely lucky players should be rewarded too.

[Lunafreya]

He said that it's comparable to: going to las vegas finding a coin from the ground and scoring jackpot.
As such he thinks anima weapons are fine and apparently he confirmed only 1 in the kill will get a weapon

He also said anima is the best weapon but the 280 weapons have better damage and can have 5 stats. Who do we believe?

[Remedi]

He also said anima is the best weapon but the 280 weapons have better damage and can have 5 stats. Who do we believe?

Not saying he was right I was just saying what he said

[Lunafreya]

Not saying he was right I was just saying what he said

Then Yoshi pretty much lied. The main problem I have with this is that it disrespected my time as a player. Grinding the anima might have been very long but it still took effort. Some of the tasks were very daunting and yoshi was willing to throw it all out after 9 days. Again, I don't care about i280 weapons... I really don't. It just comes as a huge shock to me that SE disrespected my time after that victory step I had a true godly weapon in my hand. A week later and it not godly as this 280 lottery weapon. That to me is true disrespect by Square Enix. Yoshi tells us to calm down when we endured a stupid huge questline grinding endlesss amount of tomes because he doesn't care about us. He put the anima as a shiny carrot on a stick so we can have something to do much like with the diadem he has done the same thing and called it "new content" when it is not very new. Diadem with fates....