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

[bswpayton]

The real problem with this weapon that no one seems to care about it , is that this ultimately doesnt help anyone at all, I was hoping for ilvl 265 270 weapon so I wouldnt have to. Do a relic because I stopped because I hate fates haha which is what the whold diadum is I never got my crystals. Didnt want to deal with the skip soar community Id just simply clear zur and bird farm at a later time. And the lock out on the shire weapon is 10 weeks. So its an insult to put 265 gear in there and no weapons because who needs 265 gear when you have dun scathe, scripts which is coming off of cap, and alex normal. So its just kinda messed up that this weapon serves no purpose other than to get those people that want bis weapons to do it and kinda leaves everyone else hanging with nothing just like they had before.

[Atlas-04]

Meh, the fancy 280 weapons won't mean jack when SB comes out while the anima will remain a trophy as it should. Not having Bis gear for already cleared content is that painful? My anima looks amazing, that dumb 280 can go take a hike.

[Nerisu]

I just don't see the reason on why you and the others must have the absolute best stats at the END of this expac. What is the point? To show off? To have a small advantage over others in questing? I would be mad if this weapon came out in the middle or in the begining of a raid patch. but it came out during a catch up patch.

Thing is, the weapon isn't designed simply for "catch up" ilevel-wise. If it was it'd be i270-275. Some people just get this feeling of completeness by reaching the highest item level possible before the expansion specially for their main jobs. Some who already achieved that are just sitting back and are doing side stuff or are gearing up alts. The RNG-based i280 weapons destroyed that since they may or may not be able to get it even if they keep spamming the Diadem. Item level may not be an important pre-expansion goal to some people because it will all get replaced anyway but that doesn't mean it isn't for the others.

[Xerek]

Thing is, the weapon isn't designed simply for "catch up" ilevel-wise. If it was it'd be i270-275. Some people just get this feeling of completeness by reaching the highest item level possible before the expansion specially for their main jobs. Some who already achieved that are just sitting back and are doing side stuff or are gearing up alts. The RNG-based i280 weapons destroyed that since they may or may not be able to get it even if they keep spamming the Diadem. Item level may not be an important pre-expansion goal to some people because it will all get replaced anyway but that doesn't mean it isn't for the others.

This. I had AST almost completely maxed out and was working on gearing up DRK, including working on a DRK anima, when this i280 debacle hit. That AST glam is not worth 2 million gil and countless hours lost grinding.

[Noscifer]

Can't blame people for wanting to be special snowflakes and trying to prove themselves in games, but I can understand why SE did that. This late in this the expansion, they probably want to give those who didn't clear content yet a little help so that more people get to enjoy the real "endgame". Seeing the census this morning that someone posted made it even more clear.

It's kinda funny tho, seeing everyone being so angry and petty about shiny pixels that might help others. On the bright side, we can be glad the real world doesn't work like that... I mean... nobody couldn't possibly have more than you by working less than you right? ... Or does it?

Anyway, I know that personally I'll still have way more respect for someone having the anima weapon than someone rocking the new weapon.

[Xerek]

Can't blame people for wanting to be special snowflakes and trying to prove themselves in games, but I can understand why SE did that. This late in this the expansion, they probably want to give those who didn't clear content yet a little help so that more people get to enjoy the real "endgame". Seeing the census this morning that someone posted made it even more clear.

If they wanted to help people catch up, the new weapons would have been i270 or i275. They did not have to be i280. The only reason they are i280 is to bait people into the Diadem that already have an i275 weapon. So, people who have i275s are supposed to care about these weapons...but not care about them?

[bswpayton]

Can't blame people for wanting to be special snowflakes and trying to prove themselves in games, but I can understand why SE did that. This late in this the expansion, they probably want to give those who didn't clear content yet a little help so that more people get to enjoy the real "endgame". Seeing the census this morning that someone posted made it even more clear.

But the thing is all this weapon did was piss people off , it doesnt help anyone, doesnt help raiders, doesnt help midcore players, or even casuals. Id call myself a midcore player this weapon is trash its unobtainable, because of the low drop rate it would of been alot better to have a lower itemlvl to help players still doing content than an above average weapon that you cant even get. This was just put in there to make people wana do fates and I hate people are leaving the game because of it but it was a bad idea because it helps 0 people.

[Noscifer]

And if you cleared everything without it... you should care because?? Well maybe because you want it and that's cool since they'll have accomplished their goal of having more people do Diadem which they put work into (that is not something bad). Other than that, they could have made it even more powerful to help people clear stuff, I mean, we got less than 10% players on the most successful NA server clearing what the developper put most of their time into, I'd try to help people see the endgame too if I was SE. The only thing I really don't like, is the fact that they went for the RNG aspect that coming for ArcheAge totally ruin the fun factor from a game after a while.

[Noscifer]

(Sorry the reply was too long so I had to cut it in two)

As far as I'm concerned, I'm happy that people give negative feedback about the RNG aspect but I really don't understand why we're so angry as a community (or even throwing tantrums from a few posts in here) about a weapon sightly better introduced 2 months before a new expansion. Another bright side is that it might give some very bored player that had been there done that a little incentive to play before the expansion. Killing two birds with one stone isn't that bad.

[bswpayton]

(Sorry the reply was too .

I'd say they would of gotten Just as many people to do it if it was 265 weapons with better rng and pissed off way fewer people in the process