Quote Originally Posted by Nicodemus_Mercy View Post
I get that little disparities like that exist. I am not arguing to change how things work currently. I am simply arguing against people who say that tomestone gear shouldnt be as good (or as high ilvl) as it is in relation to raid gear. The smaller the gap in player power the better, something SE seems to agree with based on how gear availability has been designed.
Tomestone weapons should never be equal to a raid capstone weapon. The only time that happened was in Gordias Savage because they made a mistake of putting the i210 gobdip upgrade in A4S along with a Gordian i210 weapon drop. Then they made it a bit of a mess later of having the anima go up to i210 that tier, that killed a lot of incentive to push through Gordias for those that didn't already. So if you didn't do an anima all-the-way or clear A4S, the highest you could go was Tome i200 weapon or a Thordan EX i205 weapon.

Hence the change in Midas to +5 ilvl and adding an i245 exclusive weapon, and moving the Gobdip to the 3rd turn. This also allowed them to release the Gobdip in the very last patch cycle with the 24-man weekly. So i240 was available to anima and Eso weapon users, and i245 only to those who clear A8S.

Mind you, that doesn't even mean i245 is even "freely" available because it's loot RNG with each weekly clear, so only one weapon/week. If you are unlucky, you have to spend 8 weeks of pages to buy your own.