Quote Originally Posted by Sephrick View Post
Well it has been stated that they're putting ways of "obtaining and upgrading" job-specific weapons. So for all we know is we'll give the promissory note to Gerolt then he'll tell us we need to round up rate materials for him to make it. Si then off we go to some other content to gather that. And that's for the base item.

/speculation
Actually I personally am guessing that that's not for the base item, but for the upgrade itself. The base item will be acquireable through a simple quest, I bet. Won't be as good as a primal weapon but better than a non-materia normal weapon. That'd make a lot of sense in the way the AF gear is put in the gear progression