I guess it's time

[Velhart]

While I agree with most of what you said, you can't seriously think that you're really going to be using that i245 weapon much at all in the next raid tier. The patterns show that the new Warring Triad fight in 3.4 will drop an i250 weapon, and most groups will be farming those before doing much of final Alex Savage, if any of it at all. So at most it'll be an advantage for the first week, then you'll have the primal weapon and be using that to progress through the tier until you get the next Tome weapon. Is it really worth the effort for at most one week of actual competitive advantage?

To most hardcore raiders aiming for server/world first? Absolutely. You don't have time to go fight a primal and that weapon along with new crafted gear is pretty essential to getting those pushes in. It may not be a strong case for those who do plan on tackling the primal first then raids, but even then on a midcore level if you are fighting the primal first, those ilvl245 weapons are going to help take it down a bit faster.

If the argument people want to bring which I am not sure if it is relevant to the general topic on hand is if the highest current weapon in the game is more novelty than usefulness. I think that is a more subjective, person by person basis type of thing. This is something however that is a thing in all MMO's or games with ranking weapons in general. "Okay I got the best thing in the game, so what now?"

A Video for my Ex-FFXI Brothers and Sisters.

*InB4somesaysnostalgia*

You know, all that stuff is still there. Not like anyone took it from you.