1% drop rates... a thought expriment.

[Welsper59]

Their purpose is to help you kill stuff. Anything. Isn't limited to coil (although it does help in coil). Faster daily runs. Easier to help others with trials or EX primals. Will help in CT. Will help for coil pickup groups. Anything. This is a progression MMO. If it makes you stronger, it's part of the core gameplay.

Besides, I didn't say anything about it being a fast process. I said that it should be a more consistent process. Those are two different things.

So why aren't things like the i90 Zenith relic, which is very easy to get, as well as the i95 Levi Ex weapons, which are also very easy to get, good enough to kill stuff with? Heck, the i95 Wave weapons are intended to get you through t7 to get the i100 weathered weapons. Meaning, anything outside of Coil is absolutely dominated by the Wave weapon.

When the intent of an item is merely meant to be a side option, and one that is ON LEVEL with endgame raid upgrades, having it be consistent (possible to be planned for) makes it mandatory to the player base. While you might think that's fine, it's ridiculous from a design stance. Why would you make an equal alternative to something that is very difficult to obtain from the main endgame source, obtainable consistently from something you could do without end? Mind you, this is only referring to the content when it's new (as when CT2 is released, we'll have a chance for the UAT to drop there).

One popular solution people tend to think would work is raising the ilvl of the Coil weapon in response to that. To that, I'd say they shouldn't do that due to stat inflation. We're raising in ilvl very quick as is. The point though is that things have a reason to be. The mirror upgrade is basically like saying you just won a T7 weapon from doing Levi Ex. Currently, it really doesn't make sense to streamline the process into a predictable outcome.