Primal weapons: to upgrade or not?

[Zenaku]

Well I wonder if you have to be a summoner or have a summoner in your FC to be able to summon your primal or if anyone as a result of having defeated said primal can summon it?

Maybe the bar is like LB where you use all that power and send it to the summoner so they can summon the primal. But or maybe anyone for that matter it make more sense if you need a few summoner to summon him. Look at the beastmen themself it take more then one them to summon a primal and a lot of power from the crystals.

guess we have to wait and see what they do.

[Eliseus]

All primal would be Roaming around Eorzea because your FC/LS can have one primal under your control. He give said once you find a primal there a way for you and your team mates would be teleport into the primal instance. He said if you win the fight you have a primal under your control for a set amount of time example he give was two weeks. You also have to fill in a bar that you also have a limit amount of time to fill or the primal is release he did not say what you have to do to fill the bar up i'm guessing we know later on. They would be weather effects once a primal is summon and something saying LS/FC have summon "Primal Name". I'm really hoping for ifrit and such they be red sky and ash falling

He also said stuff like you can control who can summon the primal in your fc/ls and also summon primal in PVP battle if you like. Also you need a set amount of people to summon them i'm guessing so let's say your the last person standing you summon a primal and kill the boss due to the fact that it's at 10-15% or something. Also once you summon the primal you have a timer when you can go get other primal not sure if he mean your allow to get a different one or if you just not allow to get any other primal to that time is up.

I'm guessing odin would be allow to be under our control seeing how he a elder primal and he get stronger each time he is killed in battle. But ya every primal would be roaming in FFXIV you just got to go out there and find them and get them under your control

IIRC correctly it was stated that this was misinterpreted, that primals wouldn't be literally roaming all over the world but there will be in a specific area roaming, for example, if Ifrit is in X spot in thanalan, that is where he will always be roaming.

I can't remember if this was exactly what they said, but there was something about people misinterpreting the "roaming" part.

[Zenaku]

IIRC correctly it was stated that this was misinterpreted, that primals wouldn't be literally roaming all over the world but there will be in a specific area roaming, for example, if Ifrit is in X spot in thanalan, that is where he will always be roaming.

I can't remember if this was exactly what they said, but there was something about people misinterpreting the "roaming" part.

Yes but they still be roaming within that area that what i mean sorry maybe i should have made that clear. I think what they mean by roaming is they be within that spot.

But i think SE should make it random where he pop next like sometime he in this spot in thanalan and sometime in this spot that give a better chance for people to get ifrit without everyone being there at the sametime but i guess that the point so i guess does not really matter

the point is he be roaming within a spot that he always be like odin.

[Nayito]

IMO each primal shouldn't have ALL the weapons, but rather have 1 or 2 weaps and other items very specific to it's atributes
Ifrit = STR ATT
Garuda = PIE EVA
Shiva = INT MATT
you get the idea

[Allesasi]

IMO each primal shouldn't have ALL the weapons, but rather have 1 or 2 weaps and other items very specific to it's atributes
Ifrit = STR ATT
Garuda = PIE EVA
Shiva = INT MATT
you get the idea

Yeah this kinda would make more sense to some extent.

[Orophin]

Finally found the quote I was looking for after some digging:

Howdy!

Except for a few specific items, the items that you can obtain in the current version of the game will be available in A Realm Reborn. Just like primal weapons, have no fear if you haven’t snagged that sweet Darklight armor yet! There will be a chance in A Realm Reborn to obtain it.

However, since the game is changing quite drastically, the methods for obtaining these items may not be exactly the same as they are now.

[Aion]

so no more spamming ifrit fights?

[Zenaku]

so no more spamming ifrit fights?

Not sure they said they be other ways of getting primal weps. I know relic quest = garuda and ifrit ex so not sure if they going to change the quest. Or they be other way to enter and fight primal and spam the shit out of it like we did in 1.0

just have to wait and see i guess.

[Altena]

The only items you won't be able to obtain (including things like imperial dalmatica etc) is event gear and Nael earrings / horn. Well from memory. I remember yoshi / dev saying something similar to this.

[Catapult]

So we have six primals and six elements - one for each.

Our existing primal weapons have a chance of dealing additional damage of their specific element.

Ramp that feature up. Make it so that all the damage dealt by a primal weapon is of its specific element rather than slashing/piercing/projectile/blunt, while allowing the mage weapons to capitalize on the traits of their specific element if within that discipline or other unique benefits if outside the discipline.

In short, make the weapons situational and useful in exploiting elemental weaknesses - including against rival primals.
A Shiva weapon would then work wonders against Garuda, who has an ice weakness. Likewise an Ifrit weapon would show Shiva who's boss.