Can someone from devopment explain why Eureka was delayed for so long?

[Aerlana]

I suspect the reason they didn't is so the next 24-man gear isn't immediately rendered obsolete. After all, what motivation will people have to spam it if they can work on multiple relics for better gear?

The raid 24 gives only armor et primals only weapon (and some gives jewelry. for various reason)


The relic is today the same ilvl as Byakko. Ok, 3 more slot for materias, so relic is better... not many but a little better...
BUT you get at least 1 byakko weapon after 1h30-2h of farm. At least because i consider you dont have any chance, and can only have weapon with the 10 token. but 10 token = 10 kills = 10 weapon drop. so byakko allow you to have the weapons really really faster than eureka.

For now i am no more activ that i was before 3.2, but i did use primals to farm weapons for secondary jobs, and relic weapon for main spec (then relic weapon + gordias story for the main and second job) But if today, i decide to farm back i would clearly ignore relic. Main spec with sigmastice weapon, and byakko for other jobs.

With ilvl 360 it would compete with the Omega Sigmastice weapon before upgrade. the one we get this week. You need 7 weeks to get one weapon, or the token in O6S (if i dont do mistake) SO taking a relic different the weapon you choose to buy from omega would allow to stuff your different jobs faster, AND the 3 more materia slots would be more interesting.


Then, some small weeks before 4.4 relic should go to i375, but being 355 or 360 now dont change anything about this.
the 4.3 boss? lets give him ilvl 365. lesser than sigmastice upgraded. better than 4.25 relic