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

Originally Posted by UBERHAXED

The top bullet point was a mistake they said they made, and it will be fixed future patches, so that the relic will never be the same as the max ilvl raid weapon at any time.

I don't take Yoshi's statement to mean that they'll never made the Anima weapons equal to raid weapons again, to be honest. It's worded a bit strangely (as is just about everything he posts on the OF), but I suspect by "at the same time," he means they won't be released at the same time, but that they'll eventually be made up to par, as has generally been the case so far. That is, raids will continue to get top weapons first, with Anima weapons only being that powerful much later. Given that he said that first bullet point also applied to the Zodiac weapons, which did become as powerful as the raid weapons, that's the best way I can make sense of what he's getting at.

He didn't actually say he considered this aspect of Zodiac/Anima to be a mistake anywhere in the letter. What he did say was that Savage's item levels were too low, which affected the item level of everything that came after it, and that tomestone weapons will be a different item level from raid weapons moving forward. He doesn't mention future item levels for the Anima ones.