Sorry Yoshi, but if you award the best weapon in the game by winning the lottery...

[Xerek]

What about all the amazing things in this game? Story, music, fun fights, friends, etc.
The numbers they set on items can break enjoyment on all of that? You're not interested in playing all the new content, exploring the Far East, being a samurai, etc. because they set a rare weapon to lv280...?

The only reason I made an anima was because it, like the relic, was going to be BiS from completion to SB. They killed that after nine days. All of that effort, the countless hours, the couple million gil, all of it was a complete waste. And SE did so just to bait people into their awful new Diadem. Yes, there is a lot of good to the game, but I could have spent the wasted time with my family and friends. I could have spent it on something fun. I was duped out of a lot of time, and that's hard to overlook or forgive.

[Texa]

If there was any content in the game at all that I had to drag myself through the dirt with my the strength of nails and my hatred in the bleak ice cold pouring rain to barely even have a glimmer of hope to meet dps checks for on my 270 main I would care about this.

As it stands I can easily dps through any content that I put forth the effort to learn mechanics for so having +3 weapon damage means absolutely nothing to me.

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

@OP. i280 by your own admission is the best weapon in the game because it has the best stats. However what is the point of having such high stats when there is literally nothing in the game, not now or in stormblood, that requires you to have stats this high.

For all intents and purposes, this weapon has no actual use, other than to show that you got really really lucky and probably wasted a lot of time.

That said, I think the developers could have released this content with 275 weapons and had chance to obtain one be a little better and I think this whole fiasco would have been avoided and you might have more people enjoying the content instead of ragequitting.

Personally, I won't be participating in this content at all because I have no desire to play the lottery when the cost of entry is 1hr of my time. I'm perfectly satisfied being i270 with my anima weapon for stormblood launch. I'll continue to log in and do zhloe each week and work on side projects like leveling up my desynthing and crafting stuff for my house.

As yoshi-p says, people need to calm down.

[Xerek]

As yoshi-p says, people need to calm down.

If i280 isn't supposed to matter, if it isn't supposed to be desirable, why is it even in the game?

Yoshi-P can tell people to calm down, but he didn't throw two million gil and countless hours of his life away on a weapon that was supposed to be BiS until SB, only to see it upstaged a mere nine days after completion.

[ShinMetsu]

The only reason I made an anima was because it, like the relic, was going to be BiS from completion to SB. They killed that after nine days. All of that effort, the countless hours, the couple million gil, all of it was a complete waste. And SE did so just to bait people into their awful new Diadem. Yes, there is a lot of good to the game, but I could have spent the wasted time with my family and friends. I could have spent it on something fun. I was duped out of a lot of time, and that's hard to overlook or forgive.

I'm sorry, but i feel like there's much wrong here. Much obvious too.
You go and do something you do not enjoy, to be BiS for Stormblood, which is gonna last until.. level 65 most likely?
Now you complain that you could be BiS until 67? Not even full BiS, only the weapon BiS until 67.
I feel like something is wrong here, but not judging, it is your time, your choice.
But then again, you chose to ditch Friends and Family so you could force yourself farm a virtual item to be BiS for level 60-65.
I feel like it's wrong, cheap and dirty to go around and blame any of that on SE now.

If i280 isn't supposed to matter, if it isn't supposed to be desirable, why is it even in the game?

Yoshi-P can tell people to calm down, but he didn't throw two million gil and countless hours of his life away on a weapon that was supposed to be BiS until SB, only to see it upstaged a mere nine days after completion.

Now, 90% of the players will most likely not get their weapon, even if they try.
Which in return does keep the Relic relevant, even if it is slightly weaker than the 280 Diadem.
But at the same time, it does give Diadem more purpose, it does give people something to work towards to.
People need goals, it's an important part of mmos.

And for those that do get it, it's just a fancy toy to mess around with. That is all.
You might get some new pushes when speed running.
Some might go harder, some might take it easy.
But it's new stuff to do, new goals to bridge the gap until stormblood.
It literally doesn't change anything besides speed runs and your epeen.

And in a way, I'm happy they did it.
We don't have much content where pretty much anyone can participate, and where people come together like this.
I feel that part is nice and refreshing, it kind of brings people together.

[Exiled_Tonberry]

What about all the amazing things in this game? Story, music, fun fights, friends, etc.
The numbers they set on items can break enjoyment on all of that? You're not interested in playing all the new content, exploring the Far East, being a samurai, etc. because they set a rare weapon to lv280...?

Who says a I can't like all this, and still want the ultimate weapon in the game to remain the ultimate weapon in the game, and not replaced by a random weapon obtained through RNG?

What was all that work defeating Alexander for if some dog in Diadem dropped something much stronger?
What's next? Omega raid gear at a lower ilv then RNG gold saucer gear?

[ColorOfSakura]

Yoshida says Anima is still the strongest weapon :^)

That is not what he said. He said it is the "best weapon to go to for guaranteed stats". That is WAAAAAY different from "strongest weapon."

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

Who says a I can't like all this, and still want the ultimate weapon in the game to remain the ultimate weapon in the game, and not replaced by a random weapon obtained through RNG?

What was all that work defeating Alexander for if some dog in Diadem dropped something much stronger?
What's next? Omega raid gear at a lower ilv then RNG gold saucer gear?

That gear would've been replaced by NQ/HQ vendor gear, green dungeon gear regardless. Why does it matter?

[Lunafreya]

That gear would've been replaced by NQ/HQ vendor gear, green dungeon gear regardless. Why does it matter?

We've said it time and time again that the relic is BiS until Stormblood. What don't you get?

[seraf]

Is this a serious topic or a parody?