Why is Square Enix reusing the Forgiven Manatrigger AGAIN?

[SummonerSenah]

To be fair, all those models were reskins/recolors for everybody else, many were multiple times over.

• Aery -> level 64 Crafted -> Lakeland
• Gubal Library -> Ghost Barque -> Deepgold
• Baldur -> lvl 60 ilvl 270 Crafted -> level 68 Crafted -> Naabath
• Ruby Tide -> Crimson Lotus (new model at StB release)
• "Grab bag" -> Bardam's Meddle
• i170 Tomestone -> Doma Castle
• Castrum Abania -> Fae

Right, but the thing is; Aery, and Gubal were from Heavensward, the level 64s were in Stormblood, and the Lakeland weapons were in Shadowbringers, ie the reskins for other jobs happened over 3 expansions. So those reskins were WAY more spread out compared to gunbreaker, where, because GNB was only added this expansion, every reskin was in Shadowbringers.

To me, that's more what the issue is than the reskins. And honestly they dye differently so it's not even a huge dealbreaker, but SE should know that reusing models is a lot more obvious when it's over such a short period.

[Iscah]

Right, but the thing is; Aery, and Gubal were from Heavensward, the level 64s were in Stormblood, and the Lakeland weapons were in Shadowbringers, ie the reskins for other jobs happened over 3 expansions. So those reskins were WAY more spread out compared to gunbreaker, where, because GNB was only added this expansion, every reskin was in Shadowbringers.

For the Forgiven Manatrigger, yes, all the reuses are in Shadowbringers. The class didn't exist before that, but its weapons need to be added in to pre-existing sets that share models with new sets, so of course multiple versions of the same manatrigger designs are going to be added in keeping with the other sets.

For the longer list that SummonerSenah made and Ultimatecalibur responded to, they're "all in Shadowbringers" only because gunbreaker was added in Shadowbringers, so a number of Stormblood-era weapons have been added retroactively.

Let's take the Castrum/Fae models for an example. The paladin sword from Castrum was added in Stormblood. The sword from Dohn Mheg was added in Shadowbringers. The model was reused once.

Meanwhile, both gunbreaker models were added in Shadowbringers, because they inherently had to be. The model has still only been reused once.

And the Forgiven weapons.... if we assume all the crafted weapons are reusing those models, then all the models will have been reused once. The manatrigger will have been reused twice, ie. one more time than any other models have been reused. And at whatever future point they recycle the entire set of weapons again, the manatrigger will still have only been used one more time compared to every other weapon in the set.

If anything, since we now have Shinryu weapons incoming, it looks like they are working on it over time, and they just made sure they had the more gameplay-important leveling and tome weapons in place first.