Why is Square Enix so lazy with making weapons lately?

[localareanetwork]

I swear we went through a time where we'd get crafted primal weapon glam like every major patch, but we haven't seen any since the Emerald Weapons were made, which was in 6.5 (almost a year ago now, and also these weapons were awful). Nothing came out with 7.0, several weapons from the benchmark are missing, they only made the Ultimate versions of the Omega Brush and Viper twinfangs, and not the normal non glowy versions. (you can have almost full party comps do uwu/ucob and not get any weapons for it either.)

Anyone else find it disappointing? Didn't they have a period of time where they'd add stuff like Red Mage weapons to fights where they didn't exist before?

[TheMightyMollusk]

It's not new. Dancer and gunbreaker never got ARR weapons, and sage and reaper never got anything below Shadowbringers (and also didn't get Yokai Watch weapons the last time that event came back). They generally don't bother adding weapons any earlier than the new jobs' starting levels, and even then, not always.

[localareanetwork]

It's not new. Dancer and gunbreaker never got ARR weapons, and sage and reaper never got anything below Shadowbringers (and also didn't get Yokai Watch weapons the last time that event came back). They generally don't bother adding weapons any earlier than the new jobs' starting levels, and even then, not always.

At least they bothered with making crafted primal weapons semi regularly, and that doesn't explain why there's a bunch of missing items from the benchmark

[Ramiee]

probably phasing them out.

[Aco505]

IIRC they skipped making them for one patch (maybe 6.4?) so it's felt quite hollow to miss them from the expansion release, too.

[Hyperia]

I swear we went through a time where we'd get crafted primal weapon glam like every major patch, but we haven't seen any since the Emerald Weapons were made, which was in 6.5 (almost a year ago now, and also these weapons were awful). Nothing came out with 7.0, several weapons from the benchmark are missing, they only made the Ultimate versions of the Omega Brush and Viper twinfangs, and not the normal non glowy versions. (you can have almost full party comps do uwu/ucob and not get any weapons for it either.)

Anyone else find it disappointing? Didn't they have a period of time where they'd add stuff like Red Mage weapons to fights where they didn't exist before?

Its most likely because the art team is having to create new updated graphics for all of the existing 5,000+ items in the game. Many of the items do not have the original high definition art files so the updated items in some cases have to be recreated from scratch. The Devs said that this will take them several years to work through it all and they are working from the most popular to the least popular.

Because of this process, I am not surprised at seeing some items not added for new jobs in old content.

[Tsiron]

It's not new. Dancer and gunbreaker never got ARR weapons, and sage and reaper never got anything below Shadowbringers (and also didn't get Yokai Watch weapons the last time that event came back). They generally don't bother adding weapons any earlier than the new jobs' starting levels, and even then, not always.

See, I can understand not adding weapons below a Job's starting level (aside from purely aesthetic, level 1 weapons), but the fact new Jobs haven't gotten a full roster even within their level range since SB...? Come on...

[IvoryHawk]

I swear we went through a time where we'd get crafted primal weapon glam like every major patch, but we haven't seen any since the Emerald Weapons were made, which was in 6.5 (almost a year ago now, and also these weapons were awful). Nothing came out with 7.0, several weapons from the benchmark are missing, they only made the Ultimate versions of the Omega Brush and Viper twinfangs, and not the normal non glowy versions. (you can have almost full party comps do uwu/ucob and not get any weapons for it either.)

Anyone else find it disappointing? Didn't they have a period of time where they'd add stuff like Red Mage weapons to fights where they didn't exist before?

I'm still waiting for the sage cutlery set that won like 2 years ago, we have people in their basements making cooler weapons/gear than what SE farts out every FOUR TO FIVE MONTHS

[Shinku_Tachi]

Every job should have access to Nidhogg, Thordan, Moogle, and High Allagan weapons

[IvoryHawk]

At least they bothered with making crafted primal weapons semi regularly, and that doesn't explain why there's a bunch of missing items from the benchmark

They even stopped doing that the last few patches of EW