Primal weapons: to upgrade or not?

[Alhanelem]

It took me 10 minutes to get level 40 gear?

It took me 200+ ifirt kills to get them all
It took me 100+ moogle kills to get them all
It took me 100+ garuda kills to get them all
It took me 1000+ runs for DL
It took me 2 months for all relics

I don't think they compare

Superweapons e.g. relics are a reasonable exception to the rule, but anything else... There will be new higher level primal battles and such. Why spend 1000 ifrit kills or whatever BS you have to go through to upgrade your ifrit weapon when you can just get a Titan weapon? The only real reason to me to demand upgrades is vanity- you like the look of the weapon better and want to keep using it. Beyond that, having everything upgradable is silly- As we progress through levels, gear should change along with it- it's supposed to be one of the perks of reaching a new level- getting new gear.

Also, I don't really are how long it took you to get ALL of the weapons. You aren't actually going to use ALL of the moogle/ifrit/garuda weapons. You only got the others for the sake of collecting them all. it doesn't take that much effort to get just one.

Really- what's the difference between doing 1023452 somethings to upgrade your darklight vs doing 1023452 somethings to get a new piece of gear?

[Colino]

But..but it took me like FOREVER to get some of it...

I can assure you they will make upgrading relics just as hard if not much harder than actually getting them.

[Alhanelem]

Uh, where are people getting the stats for "levi" and "shiva" stuff? those, along with the game, aren't out yet? ...

[Allesasi]

Vanity and choise yes. And?

[syntaxlies]

I upgraded mine into materia

[Kryptic]

If I was SE as they increased their level cap I would make harder and harder fights available for us. For example lets say the level cap is 65 and they released 2 harder modes for Ifrit, the hardest mode would drop gear for a higher level. This would help create early content for people who want good gear as they level as well as gear as they reach the cap.

[Allesasi]

If I was SE as they increased their level cap I would make harder and harder fights available for us. For example lets say the level cap is 65 and they released 2 harder modes for Ifrit, the hardest mode would drop gear for a higher level. This would help create early content for people who want good gear as they level as well as gear as they reach the cap.

Yes like rings, earings etc. , but maybe just one really good item and if people don't need the weapon they could turn it into materia or gc seals.

[Zenaku]

If I was SE as they increased their level cap I would make harder and harder fights available for us. For example lets say the level cap is 65 and they released 2 harder modes for Ifrit, the hardest mode would drop gear for a higher level. This would help create early content for people who want good gear as they level as well as gear as they reach the cap.

Don't you think people would bitch that they keep using the same battle just made it harder to get a better version of a item? like oh god now to do ifrit 500 more time just for a level 65 version of the wep i have 50lv and 60lv of.

i see what you going for but i think people be bitching about the fact that they don't come up with new stuff and just using the same thing over and over i have a feeling that would happen.

[HamHam]

What SE should implement with these weapon is Stats that go with the job's strength. If one of WAR main stats is STR and Axe is the main weapon, then put both together. Don't add something that is not useful let's say "MND" to a weapon that is only used by WAR, and vice versa with other jobs. It makes the weapon unusable.

This is just an example. I've seen it with gear that can only be used by a certain jobs and have stats that doesn't have a thing to do with that job's stats.

[BumblebeeTuna]

IMO the primal weapons will just be collectables..i mean in 1.0 garuda>moogle>ifrit. as relics were fairly simple to attain they will most likely be the go to weapons depending on how they change the quest come 2.0. However for the people that are more casual or working on relics but havent gotten them yet id assuma that the new primal weapons will be better than the old.