Why 280 weapons?

[AsunaTear]

I'm here to complain about patch 3.55b and how absurd is giving a weapon stronger than Alexander savage ones and Relic. I mean all this relic's grind to have a BIS weapon for 2 weeks? Raiders that strugled learning all savage turns to have the acomplishment and strongest weapon in the game to a few weeks later they become useless compared to Diadem one? I know developers can ignore this post completely, but still i have hope at least my complains reach any of them. I'm here since day one of patch 2.0 and after this considering canceling my Sub for good. It isn't only me, a lot of raiders i know are thinking the same. This isn't a incentive to players try hard end content or grind their relic, this is a cold water bucket in the face on who just finished their relic after one year of grinding and players that are wiping for months to kill Alexander Prime.

[AsunaTear]

Poor try of keep players paying. "Why should i try do hard end content or relic if i can just grind Diadem for a few hours?" That is what casual players are thinking when it should be "Going to try savage" or "Going to finish my relic". That's all i had to say, i'm frustrated with this and i hope developers at least read this.

[Mirch]

haven't seen a single i280 weapon yet but lol the i265 body gears and accessorizes are op, if they have those op stats lol

[SapphireLenfar]

Did new Diadem this morning, and I was not impressed with the content either. It basically felt like a FATE grind, and I didn't even get to do the new "raid."

As someone who has done A12S and a Relic to 275, the fact I need some exceptional luck to get a significantly better main hand is annoying. I realize at this point in the tier, gear doesn't matter all that much, but I would have been happy with getting random-stat 265 or 270 weapons for alts--280 seems a little like over kill, and I'm not sure what the development team was thinking.

I know Reddit is having a salt storm and people are threatening to unsub. I don't feel that negatively about it because at this point, it's not like I need a better weapon to do any content, but I get how it negatively impacts those statics doing speed runs. Overall, it just doesn't seem to make sense from a gear balancing standpoint. Why have people grind out a months-long relic just to make it obsolete less than 2 weeks later?

[mosaicex]

"We were unable to come up with interesting contents, so please enjoy the old one with new coat of paint" -Y

[kensatsu]

It's all about carrots, Completely RNG you may play as war and loot a machinist 280 weapon, exept if you are lucky you have little chance to get your main job weapon with good secondarie stat. So if you wish one for your main job... how much time you have to run it.
So it will reward lucky guy or hardcore braindead farmer only.
It's a bad idea, anyway.

[Zigabar]

Your frustrated over weapons that have abysmal drop rates hidden under layers of RNG that have little meaning since there's no relevant content to take it into? Okay.

[Risvertasashi]

Most people will never get an i280 weapon.

Of those that do, most will never get one for their main class.

Of those that do, a good number of them will have trash stats.

a12s/relic is still the way to actually get a weapon. Diadem is the lottery.

[Lunafreya]

This is an absolute disaster for the people that grinded the relic. I knew by getting no title we'd just be laughing stock. Thanks I guess, SE.

[NoctusT]

While, as the person above has said, most people won't get the 280 weapon. It doesn't change the fact that the availability of these weapons is a slap in the face to every single person who has done Savage or grinded out the relic or (as is the case for many people) done both. Eventually, all gear is irrelevant. But people still put in a lot of effort to get their weapons. And now all of that effort is completely pointless since the best weapons in the game now, based on pure stats alone, is dependent completely on RNG.