Thread: The Current Status of FFXIV Patch 3.1 and How to Address it Moving Forward

I had a thought last night, I don't recall seeing anyone bring it up here but I apologize if I missed it.

One thing I had not considered, even though I do believe the messed up pretty bad with the timing of the relic release, this raid patch we did a have a tome weapon that did not require A2S drop to obtain. I think this probably had some impact on their planning of the relic release. Whether it was right or wrong to withhold the relic quests for this long we can debate about. But I for one was pretty pleased with that aspect, and if you look at it like that it does sort of make sense why it would've been problematic had they released relics earlier. And that is the pace at which they want us to gear up (or plan for us to, I guess). If we had relic weapon at 200 at the same time, that's 990 more tomes we would've had to spend on gear and people would've geared faster and that's kinda the opposite of what they want, to make sure the content has a certain shelf life at least.

I still think the best plan would have been release 170 with expansion, update to 190 with alex savage release, 200 with void ark (maybe withhold the upgrade items until the next patch), and then 210 on the last leg before next raid patch (VA upgrade items here), with savage weapons being 215. This ensures they remain slightly behind raid weapons and keeps that content relative.

But I just wanted to look at it from a different perspective, they did do at least one good thing by not locking the weapon behind 2nd turn, I'm sure a lot of groups were able to benefit with early clears because of it.