Quote Originally Posted by technole View Post
Tomestone weapons should never be equal to a raid capstone weapon. The only time that happened was in Gordias Savage because they made a mistake of putting the i210 gobdip upgrade in A4S along with a Gordian i210 weapon drop. Then they made it a bit of a mess later of having the anima go up to i210 that tier, that killed a lot of incentive to push through Gordias for those that didn't already. So if you didn't do an anima all-the-way or clear A4S, the highest you could go was Tome i200 weapon or a Thordan EX i205 weapon.

Hence the change in Midas to +5 ilvl and adding an i245 exclusive weapon, and moving the Gobdip to the 3rd turn. This also allowed them to release the Gobdip in the very last patch cycle with the 24-man weekly. So i240 was available to anima and Eso weapon users, and i245 only to those who clear A8S.

Mind you, that doesn't even mean i245 is even "freely" available because it's loot RNG with each weekly clear, so only one weapon/week. If you are unlucky, you have to spend 8 weeks of pages to buy your own.
As you pointed out, RNG does play a role in raid gear. So it baffles me when people suggest that tomestone gear needs to be significantly lower in ilvl in relation to raid gear, when raiders themselves can benefit from tomestone gear when the rng doesn't favor them. You also touch on a significant factor of raiding. Incentive. While raiders have a number of incentives to raid, ilvl seems to be the only one given much credence... and apparently a 5 ilvl advantage isn't enough for many raider's egos.

Quote Originally Posted by technole View Post
It's still related, some people (mainly those who don't raid alex savage) are just a bit soar that the i270 gobdip upgrade is not freely available to the casual raid and Dun Scaith gear is still locked to a weekly drop.

You can get a i270-275 by doing an anima, learn to clear A11S for a gobdip like all of us did early-on, or even A12S for a i275. Look they can't give away everything on a silver platter, you have to work for this stuff until likely patch 3.57.
Some raiders threw a hissy fit over the anima being able to get to 275 if I recall.