iLv needs to change

[lyndwyrm]

Not only are there multiple incentives to using your Relic in content, but there's incentives to spend your Poetics and Soldiery elsewhere.
Players must have a complete lack of rudimentary sense and proportionality to buy a poetic weapon (or even a soldiery) if they already possess a Relic for that class.

3 weeks of capping poetics at a generous 8 hours a week, 24 hours.
2 weeks of bad WoD runs taking 1 hour each, 2 hours.
<26 hours from nothing to i130 poetics weapon.

How far on a fresh relic (or at any other stage for that matter) can you get in 26 hours? With current rates, I personally could very likely finish atma, but probably not animus and definitely not novus. I'll be optimistic and say animus (i100). If you're starting from i55, the gain in gear from i55->i130 on head and body slots is 22(head)+36(body)=58 str/dex/int/mnd

The gain in weapon damage for physical classes from i100->i130 is 8, with a weighting of 8:1 for WD:STR, that equates to 64. Then there's a 14 gain from the mainstat on the weapon.

In summary, the damage gain from changing weapon from i100 to i130 is greater than changing head and body slot from i55 to i130 by about 20 mainstat points.

-snip-My overall ilvl was 90. It would have been 100 if every piece counted equally(or I don't understand averages).

Edit after readi ng the thread: As a newer player, I haven't found an easy way to get a higher ilvl bow. The ones I see for poetics or soldiery also require coil drops according to what I looked up. Did I see that wrong or am I just looking in the wrong place?

Each body piece is weighted the same currently, and 2-handed weapons are weigted doubly (multi-slot armor pieces also have increased weighting). With the gear you listed that should put you at 98 or so. However, the rounding can seem weird sometimes (I think there's a floor/ceiling function in there somewhere).

As for getting increased ilv weapons, there's no quest for the zenith (i90), you just buy 3 thavnarain mist and trade them in with Drake the furnace in North Shroud. The two tomestones now can be gotten in either Sycrus tower or from the weekly quest doing all three crystal tower stages.