Quote Originally Posted by RLofOBFL View Post
There is no argument...the reason they had a cap(I believe) was so the only 230 at the time would be the relic since it only takes 1-3 weeks for that step to make people want it & work towards the anima or something, like a "you worked WAY too hard on the 210 step so for the first 7 weeks of 3.2 you can have a 230 before everyone else" consolation. It serves no purpose now.
The i230 relic step was added in 3.25, 5 weeks after the release of 3.2. Raiders who were able to clear A6S were already able to obtain the i230 tomestone weapon before then, while others were 2 weeks away from getting enough A8 tokens for it.
It's more likely that they did this so raiders could get some of their tomestone weapons before the rest, while the Sephirot weapons remained as meaningful rewards for at least 5-6 weeks.

Quote Originally Posted by Maero View Post
Guaranteed the upgraded weapon may be better then some of the Relics out there.... Fail
Not really sure how you think an upgraded lore weapon is better than a weapon with customizable stats.
For example, comparing the i240 NIN lore daggers with the i240 relic ones:

Augmented Torrent Kris: 120 Crit, 104 Det (Includes 2x Det V melds)
Spurs of the Thorn Prince: 120 Crit, 115 Det

While the upgraded lore weapons will obviously be easier to obtain in 3.38, they're still not better than the relic ones.