Stormblood end-of-life cycle and Buyable Weapons

[Adeacia]

I have an i400 tomestone weapon. The upgrade item does exist. You need to run all 3 of the 24 player SB raids for the coins to trade in for it. HW did the same thing before SB launched.

[Vidu]

I have an i400 tomestone weapon. The upgrade item does exist. You need to run all 3 of the 24 player SB raids for the coins to trade in for it. HW did the same thing before SB launched.

To add to this: This has been the same in both ARR and HW.

If you want the tomestone weapon but arent raiding, you can get it by running the 24-man-"raids" aswell as the NMs of the 8-man-raid (once they added those in HW) and obtain items that let (1) buy the weapon and (2) upgrade all your gear to the highste ilvl in the game.

In order to buy the current tomestone-weapon you need to get one "Military-grade Tomestone", which drops in AS2 or can be obtained by exchanging 4 Alphascape Crystalloids (100% drop straight into your inventory from A4NM).
If you want to upgrade that weapon you need to run each of the SB-24-man-raids once and exchange the 3 coins for one Scaevan Ester.

This was no different in ARR or HW - they only changed the way you can obtain all the stuff (aka: making it purchaseable with poetics) after the next expansion already dropped.

You can leave SB with an ilvl of 400 without ever having set foot into any challenging content.