Your thoughts on the Nightsteel weapons?

[Mizunoko]

What is everyones thoughts on how the dev team used ripoffs of the zeta weapons as the appearance for the 350 craftable weapons? I myself have mixed feelings about it. I'm just curious what everyone else thinks.

[ErryK]

They're just weapons, I did them a long time ago... they also dye horribly, they have this gaudy copper/bronze metal to them that doesn't dye or go well with pretty much anything.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

They're just weapons, I did them a long time ago... they also dye horribly, they have this gaudy copper/bronze metal to them that doesn't dye or go well with pretty much anything.

Pretty much this

[Mizunoko]

Does anyone know if they did it because people actually wanted something like this or did they basically just run out of ideas lol?

[Lukha]

Does anyone know if they did it because people actually wanted something like this or did they basically just run out of ideas lol?

I honestly don't know at this point. Despite claims of being given a larger budget than ever, this expansion has been one reused model after rehashed idea after new-but-wholely-uninspiring model after another. Honestly (bearing in mind that I only really play WHM, so I'm only considering healer gear in this), the only new items I can really see myself saving to use again and again in future are the Shisui set and the new 'Republican' PvP set? Even then, neither set is really suited to everyday use.

And now that I've seen the models for the Fashion Report gear I'm really starting to wonder if their gear designer just up and quit or keeled over from the stress of putting together the expansion or something, since even the female version is pretty uninspiring, and the male version is a new all-time low in a field I was already pretty sure had hit rock bottom.


EDIT: I SHOULD say that I couldn't care less about exclusivity or some silly idea that these crafted models make my relic less 'special'. I'm even for reusing models in certain capacities, especially if those models dye differently. My worry stems from just how common reused models have been recently, rather than any especial concern about the principle of reusing them.

[Coatl]

They don't have the glow..so I'm just indifferent towards them.

[Krotoan]

They don't make my weapon look any worse. Personally I have no interest in them.
"special snowflake"-wise it doesn't have the exact same look (no glow) and it gives people options who liked the actual models to have a weapon without doing the insane grind associated with it. People who did it can still feel special and others can update their look.

cool.

[Kazgrel]

As an owner of 3 zetas, I’m not bothered in the slightest. The zetas still have the glow effects to themselves.

[Rufalus]

Well they made new designs for tome, raid, pvp, byakko, eureka and misc glams so they have to cut corners for the dungeon and crafted sets in the same patch. I wouldn't say they are providing less than the past because each expansion the number of systems in the game to maintain goes higher.

These days they have to keep adding updates to things like treasure map dungeons, fish tanks, squadrons, workshops, custom deliveries, Feast; lots of features they didn't have in 2.x. Back then they could double down resources on amount of dungeon and trial per patch.

Now it's 15 jobs to balance instead of 10 and it'll be higher next xpac. So, resources spread more thinly to an ever increasing amount of features. Next deep dungeon is trying to squeeze in there somewhere.

[Bacent]

If you can get the mats to make them for a quick upgrade, it's a steel.

I only got one of the weapons though so I could better farm Byakko until I got my pld sword/shield and my healer weapons.

Also, they ugly, couldn't care less about re-hashed weapon designs for stuff that's gonna be obsolete rather quickly.