Soldiery/Poetics weapons for new classes?

[SDaemon]

The gear already exists in the first place, The new jobs are going to jump into existing poetics/Dwyrm gear, providing that there is only one set of tanking and healing gear still. Unlikely they will make everything Job Specific at this point.

People kicked and screamed that they didn't want their 130 gear to be obsolete and the devs listened lol. Now half the expansion is going to be super easy.

5 levels of the leveling process at the very beginning on an expansion is nothing more than a drop of water in an ocean in regards to the entirely of an expansion.

And unless you actively grind FCoB than all your classes are not going to be in full i130 gear, one of the reasons SE kept the poetic cap.

[hairpinlegs]

People kicked and screamed that they didn't want their 130 gear to be obsolete and the devs listened lol. Now half the expansion is going to be super easy.

Yes, leveling is half the expansion. Not the endgame, not the quests, the leveling.

[Shippuu]

Well we know for sure that there will be Ironworks weapons for the new jobs. The DRK Ironworks greatsword is shown multiple times in the benchmark (unfortunately on a lalafell) But it's definitely there.

As for Gerolt/Soldiery weapons? Unsure. I would think they would still do so since they are doing primal and every other similar ilvl weapons (high allagan etc.)

As others have mentioned so far we only know they will not have a 2.0 relic.

[MirielleLavandre]

Thanks Shippuu for that pic -- anyone have any of the Machinist or AST poetic weapon? I tried but couldn't find any shots in the benchmark (though I may just be terrible at looking)!