Crafted Weapons

[OoglieBooglie]

Will there ever be crafted weapons again? The replica things don't count. I mean the actually useful weapons.

[Nekotee]

Not yet
Because it would make sephirot EX useless

[Roth_Trailfinder]

Not sure what ilevel weapons you get from Sephirot Extreme, but the crafted stuff is i220. The Lore tome weapon is i230. Sephirot Extreme weapon can be obtained as soon as one can start farming it, but the Lore weapon takes 7 weeks of Midan Gears from a8 normal.

To me, that means there would be room for i220 crafted weapons with i230 Sephirot Ex.

Of course, Bismarck Ex weapons were irrelevant the moment they went live. So they would not need to ensure Sephirot Ex weapons relevancy if they don't want to.

[Slappah]

Not sure what ilevel weapons you get from Sephirot Extreme, but the crafted stuff is i220. The Lore tome weapon is i230. Sephirot Extreme weapon can be obtained as soon as one can start farming it, but the Lore weapon takes 7 weeks of Midan Gears from a8 normal.

To me, that means there would be room for i220 crafted weapons with i230 Sephirot Ex.

Of course, Bismarck Ex weapons were irrelevant the moment they went live. So they would not need to ensure Sephirot Ex weapons relevancy if they don't want to.

If Sephirot dropped 230 no one would spend 7 weeks getting a 230 Tome weapon

Sephirot drops 220 weapons, which is perfect for a replacement to your 210 while waiting on a 230 lore weapon.

If crafted weapons were 220 sephirot would be useless

If they were 210 they would be useless

215 wouldn't be worth it, and 225 would, again, make sephirot pointless

There isn't any room for crafted weapons right now, we should just be happy we got an entire left and right side 220 stuff

[Reynhart]

If they were 210 they would be useless

Nope, because a HQ Pentamelded i210 weapon could be better than a dropped i220.

But not everyone could afford such a weapon. For those people, Seph EX would be the way to go.

The only content I've ever seen be obsolete on release was the Bismark weapons.

It would have been so easy to not make Law weapons (Like there wasn't for philosophy tomestones)...

[Roth_Trailfinder]

Yea, because everyone does Ex trials.

And because everyone who does those trials does Alex Savage, for an i240/i245 weapon.

There would have been room for tome weapons and Sephirot weapons at the same ilevel, given that tome weapons take longer to get but are upgradable later on.

[Sollux]

The only place I could see Crafted weapons being relevant (Read: Worth the effort) without making any current content obsolete would be as an i210 weapon, and only because you would have the option to overmeld them which would give them a *small* bump over now easily obtainable Eso weapons for anyone willing to spend the time/gil, but would likely be replaced by a Sephirot weapon before it even finishes bonding (Assuming the player does actually raid).

The only content I've ever seen be obsolete on release was the Bismark weapons. Personally I think that was an oversight on their part and one they're unlikely to make again.