Power creep?

[Brannigan]

A lot of problems with current weapon progression come from the tomestone weapon not requiring a raid drop. If we had

Law 170 / upgrade 180
Bismark 180 / upgrade 190 (Ravana Drop)
Ravana 190
Badrelic 200 (3.1)
Tome 200 (requires Alex Savage floor 2 drop) / Upgrade 210 (Alex 4S drop)
Thordan 205 (3.1)
Gordian 210
Goodrelic 210 (3.1)

We'd have a much smoother progression. As it is, because the tomestone weapon requires no raid drop, everyone just skips over the first 3 steps and Ravana hasn't been relevant since 3 weeks after Tomestones released. Diadem obviously destroys armor progression and hopefully they don't mess it up so bad next go-around. For 3.2, I'd like to see something like

Dungeon armor: 205
Primal weapon: 215
Relic weapon: 215
Alex Normal: 220 (1/week like Void Ark)
Tomestone armor: 220 / upgrade 230 with raid drops
Tomestone weapon: 220 (requires raid drop) / upgrade 230 with last boss drop
Alex Hard: 230

I think that would keep Alex Normal relevant for longer and kind of restore a sense of progression for weapons. After that, if they were to allow the next set of gear from the 24 man raid to be upgraded with 8 man raid drops you'd have a much wider pool of gear to choose from.