Quote Originally Posted by Raldo View Post
It doesn't have to ignore your level, but your weapon ought to play some part in the calculation of damage (aside from the obvious additional stats on the weapon).

Since you obviously played XI, do you remember how people reacted to relic weapons for BLM? It went something like "LOL THAT'S CRAP". I don't want to see that happen again.

As soon as elemental staves were added to XI, nobody cared about any higher-level weapons for mages. I don't want to see that happen again.
That's because Elemental Staves (especially HQ ones) were completely and utterly OP and should have never went live like that. They were far, far above the tier they should have been -- and the ability to switch out gear mid fight made them highly useful for niche reasons, rather than the "one weapon fits all" that later weapons were. With luck, nothing like that will happen here, for simple virtue of learning from past mistakes (pipe dream, I know).