More Waste

[HyoMinPark]

I know you can obtain the Scaevan Magitek weapons via Savage Alphascape but it's now finally week 7 in which you can get them with Genesis and you're already releasing new content that will dwarf the weapon (Eureka).

Not necessarily.

Anemos offered i355 weapons, which was the same as Byakko, the current Ex primal. Right now, Suzaku is the current primal, and she offers i385 weapons. If Pyros follows Anemos’ formula, then the weapon won’t be better than the Genesis weapon (i385 versus i390). i385 also follows the 15 item level increases the Pagos weapon saw from Anemos (355 > 370; 370 > 385).

If the Pyros weapon is i395 like some think it will be, the RNG substats will determine its worth over the i390 — bad rolls on the substats will not push it over the i390 weapon if the Tome weapon has good stats for the job (e.g., MCH, RDM, AST, WHM). As it stands now, for some jobs, the i390 weapon is garbage compared to the i385 Suzaku weapon despite item level because of bad substats (e.g., BRD—they don’t even want the i400 weapon because no Crit).

I personally think Pyros will give i380 gear and i385 weapons because of prior precedents. And I think the fourth installment of Eureka will push it to i400 (so another 15 item levels) with an upgrade after a few weeks to push it to i405 and make it finally on par with the Savage weapon. SE is nothing if not predictable, after all.