Primal weapons: to upgrade or not?

[Lucke]

How about if each primal is assigned a stat. You can build your character then however you want. Each weapon is the same in the sense as "Ifrit is the best primal weapon!"

Ifrit: Fire damage + +STR
Shiva: Ice Damage + +PIE
Titan: Earth Damage + +VIT
Ramuh: Lightning Damage + +INT
Levi: Water Damage + +MND
Garuda: Wind Damage + +DEX

If you are a BRD, you can use either Ifrit's Bow if you want to build your BRD for Damage, you can also choose Garuda's Bow for the added DEX, or you can use Levi's bow to improve your songs. There isn't one uber weapon that you use over the rest. Pick the weapon that mirrors your play-style, or pick a weapon that might improve your weakness.

Been awhile since I played, I think BRD used PIE too, so they could also use Shiva's bow as well. Obviously, we don't know how the stats will be changed, but hopefully you get the idea.

[Rau]

Planned obsolescence is what gives people incentive to get new gear ==> people keep playing game.

How about if each primal is assigned a stat. You can build your character then however you want. Each weapon is the same in the sense as "Ifrit is the best primal weapon!"

Ifrit: Fire damage + +STR
Shiva: Ice Damage + +PIE
Titan: Earth Damage + +VIT
Ramuh: Lightning Damage + +INT
Levi: Water Damage + +MND
Garuda: Wind Damage + +DEX

If you are a BRD, you can use either Ifrit's Bow if you want to build your BRD for Damage, you can also choose Garuda's Bow for the added DEX, or you can use Levi's bow to improve your songs. There isn't one uber weapon that you use over the rest. Pick the weapon that mirrors your play-style, or pick a weapon that might improve your weakness.

Been awhile since I played, I think BRD used PIE too, so they could also use Shiva's bow as well. Obviously, we don't know how the stats will be changed, but hopefully you get the idea.

Why would any WHM want a staff with STR? Why would any WAR want an axe with MND?
Your solution basically gimps 4 or 5 of the 7 weapons for each primal.

[Klefth]

Planned obsolescence is what gives people incentive to get new gear ==> people keep playing game.

See FFXI and one of the reasons many people quit that game after Abyssea.

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

If you are a BRD, you can use either Ifrit's Bow if you want to build your BRD for Damage, you can also choose Garuda's Bow for the added DEX, or you can use Levi's bow to improve your songs. There isn't one uber weapon that you use over the rest. Pick the weapon that mirrors your play-style, or pick a weapon that might improve your weakness.

Been awhile since I played, I think BRD used PIE too, so they could also use Shiva's bow as well. Obviously, we don't know how the stats will be changed, but hopefully you get the idea.

While it's true that we wont know how stats will change, and they will change, for a BRD... STR was the last you'd want to cap when concerned with DMG. It's AA and WS modifiers were actually DEXmain PIEmid. PIE might be the one to change for the stat change, but DEX should still be it's main DMG modifier.

Also, Ifrit weapons were certainly not the best on all jobs. It was whatever had the highest in DPS in relation to what you could cap in terms of your stat modifiers. If I only had the gear to cap Ifrits then I'd say it was the best choice, but if I had melds that exceeded those caps the better choice would be to move onto a higher DPS weapon like Garuda's to compensate for the stats that spill over if using Ifrit's.