Quote Originally Posted by BroodingFicus View Post
I mentioned to someone while clearing Sephirot normal for the first time that the only reason I was even there was because square didn't give us a tome weapons that doesn't require raiding and they said that the something of the dead (whatever that new dungeon content due out presumably in 3.35 is called) is going to give 230 weapons.
Problem I see with that is that SE did mention that the palace of the dead gear is only for that dungeon/instance. Therefore I assume that you won't be able to use the weapons somewhere else, or they do it like they've done it in the past with the pvp weapons. Slap some stats on it that are great but barely usable in other content, unless they let us meld/overmeld them.

The 2x series was the same thing. If you wanted a great weapon to that time, you needed to clear T5, 9 & 13 or the relic grind which took a long time (pre-nerfs) or you could do the weekly primal quest and get a weapon that was only BiS for brd's to that time, after completing all 3 xtreme primals. Later on they added a couple of weapons that were craft able but to that time already outdated since raid, weeklies, relic and even tomes were so much better.

I do understand that some people are not willing to raid or have the time to raid, but that also means that you do not need a ilvl 245 weapon. Any other weapon is easily obtained it just takes a little bit of effort/time.