HA vs Nexus, some Nexuses have higher stats?

[No2631]

The reason it's better is it only obtained this level in 2.38, when 2.4 comes out do you all complain that the new tome gear is 10 ilv's better than previous coils or that the new coil weapon will be 20 ilv's higher than the previous one too.

The i80 Labyrinth of the Ancients gear was made available after the i90 gear from Coil, and I didn't see anyone arguing it should be better; moreover, we are talking about weapons of the same item level in a sub-patch, not a new patch. This kind of argumentation is flawed as seniority has nothing to do with selectively being better when presented on a level playing field: this was not a problem with i90 Rowena weapons being introduced after i90 relic weapons.

The High Allagan Staff, again, has the same stat distribution of 72 points as the Nexus has, but the same is not true for the High Allagan Bow or Spear. This is a discrepancy.


Lollie: That's at least a satisfying response, though it's still somewhat curious that this only applies to three specific pieces and not to all; someone earlier said there was a stat weight for Determination that's higher than other stats, and granted, but given that the maximum for that on a Nexus is already lower, there's no satisfying reason to explain why the stat weight doesn't apply to Nexus weaponry. "But it came later!" isn't a satisfying argument when the developers sold the zodiac quest line to everyone as "a sideline to Coil gear".