New Tomestone weapon vs Anima weapon

[Maero]

Depends i guess on a variety of things and what the stats are on the weapon, as a dps if it has a better main stat and some better secondary stats for sure i will be saving up for it.
Dps, Weapon>Gear, usually the order
Currently Savage weapon or yet eso even i prefer over Relic.
I honestly do not know why so much different weapons gets introduced, it is not at all needed so much variety.

[Kaurie]

Dps, Weapon>Gear, usually the order

Always the order. At 210, the weapon equates to just over 1/3rd of your damage capabilities. For example, my Summoner has 3445 INT once all stats are weighted, and the weapon equals 1358 of that. Therefore, 39% of my damage output is based off the weapon, and 61% is based off the rest of my gear.

[KaitlanKela]

I think it would depend on the class and what secondaries you're into.

As a SCH, the Anima weapon is going to trump pretty much everything else they throw at me, because of the crit. Since it's going to reliably be a good weapon every patch and it will always have crit on it, I'll just ignore the other stuff. I know that's not world-first progression quality, but it's by and far the most playtime efficient and that's what I need to prioritize.

[PArcher]

Watch the new tome weapon require a drop from A6S, like back in SCoB and FCoB, and 1300 Lore.


Popcorn is ready for the non-raiders flooding the forums with complaint threads

[Warlyx]

Watch the new tome weapon require a drop from A6S, like back in SCoB and FCoB, and 1300 Lore.


Popcorn is ready for the non-raiders flooding the forums with complaint threads

uhm u could get the weapon but u couldnt upgrade it until u got the A6 drop....

i wonder if the new trial weapon will be 220 or 215? Oo , the tomes for sure 220 upgradeable to 230

[Kaurie]

the tomes for sure 220 upgradeable to 230

Is this confirmed somewhere?

[PArcher]

uhm u could get the weapon but u couldnt upgrade it until u got the A6 drop....

i wonder if the new trial weapon will be 220 or 215? Oo , the tomes for sure 220 upgradeable to 230

Huh?

SCob abd FCoB tome weapons required a drop from t7/t11 to just get the weapon, on top of the tomes needed. To upgrade, you needed a drop from t8/t12.
I'm expecting this new one to be similar; need the drop from A6S to get the weapon, drop from a7s to upgrade, and the a8s weapon will be 5ilv higher than the upgraded tome weapon.

Also, expecting the ilv to be like this:
Primal - 215
Tome - 220
Upgraded Primal - 220
Upgraded tome - 230
Midas - 235

Also, gordias could get upgraded to 215 in 3.2,just like allagan got upgraded from 90 to 95

[Kaurie]

Huh?

SCob abd FCoB tome weapons required a drop from t7/t11 to just get the weapon, on top of the tomes needed. To upgrade, you needed a drop from t8/t12.
I'm expecting this new one to be similar; need the drop from A6S to get the weapon, drop from a7s to upgrade, and the a8s weapon will be 5ilv higher than the upgraded tome weapon.

Perhaps the weapons will require a drop from A7N, and the upgrade will be from A7S or so

[PArcher]

Perhaps the weapons will require a drop from A7N, and the upgrade will be from A7S or so

If a weapon drops from Normal, it will be 210, and non-upgradable (I do doubt it since there was no weapon in Gordias Normal). I can't see Midas Normal gear being any higher than that (if it is, 215. But I really doubt it). It would then be used to get people up to speed with those who cleared A4S, and allowing better farms at the new Primal weapon (which will be the gateway weapon for most people for Midas Savage...assuming there is one anyway, but a Mirror of the Whorl 5ilv upgrade piece that drops extremely rarely will be around to give the determined a chance to get a tome-equivalent weapon before clearing A6S)

Tome weapons are used to get people from early raid floors to the later ones; you need the previous top-tier weapon to do the first one or two, then the Tome and its upgrade for the later two.

But, they did say Midas will be the top, so it will be at least 5ilv higher than the upgraded Tome weapon.

As for the Anima, I doubt it will catch up to Midas until probably 3.35 or so; my guess is the first upgrade (3.25) to it will bring it to 220 or 225.

[Warlyx]

Huh?

SCob abd FCoB tome weapons required a drop from t7/t11 to just get the weapon, on top of the tomes needed. To upgrade, you needed a drop from t8/t12.

uhmm....thats true my bad ^^;

Is this confirmed somewhere?

nope just speculations