Patch 5.25 Release Date

[Ultimatecalibur]

Thats some serious mental gymnastics there my friend.

A great deal of those you so nonchalantly put in one basket would probably be like "ah sweet an upgrade" and farm it. No idea where you got your twisted perception from.

He is speaking from experience. The reason all Raid weapons are 5 ilevels higher than the raid/augmented tomestone gear is due to the 2.0 i90 BCoB weapons not being desirable over the i90 Relic weapons and 3.05's i210 Gordian Weapons not being desirable over the i210 Augmented tomestone weapons.

490 seems fair, Tome weapons are very easy to get too. The stormblood Relic was pretty much irrelevant until Hydatos and most people did it just for something to do and the other rewards, I saw very few actually glam them. Due to weapon damage being such an important stat, it's unlikely that a 490 would compete with Savage weapons.

During the previous expansions the release order was the following:

ARR

• i80 - 2.0*
• i90 - 2.0*
• i100 - 2.2
• i110 - 2.28
• i115 - 2.38
• i125 - 2.45
• i135 - 2.51

*Originally appeared in 1.X

HW

• i170 - 3.15
• i200 - 3.15
• i210 - 3.15
• i230 - 3.25
• i240 - 3.3
• i260 - 3.45
• i270 - 3.5
• i275 - 3.55

StB

• i290 - 4.0
• i335 - 4.25
• i340 - 4.25
• i345 - 4.25
• i355 - 4.25
• i360 - 4.36
• i365 - 4.36
• i370 - 4.36
• i375 - 4.45
• i380 - 4.45
• i385 - 4.45
• i390 - 4.55
• i395 - 4.55
• i400 - 4.55
• i405 - 4.55
• i405+ - 4.55

i490 is likely the best place for the 5.25 relics to end and i500 the best place for the 5.3X relics to end.