Dun Scaith weapon upgrade drop to 270, when? Nvm let's skip that for Diadem 280

[Malzian]

The points of the matter is how fast SE introduced a higher ilv weapon when anima was just updated.

What I find interesting about all the threads talking about this and "how fast" the i275 Anima was outdated with the release of an i280 weapon 9 days after the i275 step was released is... everyone also seems to have forgotten already that this was supposed to be released at the same time as the i275 step. Remember, the only reason we have 3.55b is because of the issue they had with the Diadem for 3.55 causing then to break it up into a and b.

The extremely low dropping, randomly statted i280 weapon isn't meant to replace Anima for everyone, it's supposed to be (and is) a very rare drop that can be an alternative for people who didn't want to grind the Anima or Alex. Now they probably should have made it the same iLvl and weapon damage as the Anima and Alex weapons, but they likely felt that with how rarely it drops and that the drop you get might not even be for your main job, that they needed to make it more of an incentive for people to do the new Diadem and actually care about completing the missions properly.

Still, let us not forget, this isn't them randomly deciding to release this after the fact of releasing the Anima step, this was originally intended to coincide with that step directly and getting a relevant i280 drop is going to be a lot more work than finishing that last laughably easy i275 step.