Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[Tex_Mex]

Am I the only person who believes that relic weapons should never be more powerful than raid weapons? I mean, the most difficult challenge in the game currently is completing T13. Completing your zodiac weapon might take a long time, but it is certainly not difficult, just long and drawn out. I would be ok if the weapons were equivalent to raid gear, but in this case (if they go to 135) they will just be flat out better due to higher stat allocation points. Seems like it kind of craps on the raiding community.

[Sleigh]

Am I the only person who believes that relic weapons should never be more powerful than raid weapons? I mean, the most difficult challenge in the game currently is completing T13. Completing your zodiac weapon might take a long time, but it is certainly not difficult, just long and drawn out. I would be ok if the weapons were equivalent to raid gear, but in this case (if they go to 135) they will just be flat out better due to higher stat allocation points. Seems like it kind of craps on the raiding community.

As someone who got i115 HA and i135 DW weapons long, long before Nexus or this upcoming i135 relic, I'd say, I'm okay with relics being the best weapons in the game. It's something for the class specialists to have over the people who "just" get their gear from coil, and it helps eliminate long-term RNG a bit - IE my group's MNK and BRD haven't seen DW claws or bow yet in something like 15 clears or so, so they've primed up their relics to get their deserved BiS weapons.

I mean, at the end of the day, we're talking about pennies on the dollar with them being better than DW weapons in a lot of cases. In a raid scenario going from DW weapon to relic i135 is just gonna raise your deeps by 5-10 DPS probably at best (much much less for the DRG DW > relic), and while I value that, I don't think it's something to get upset about if someone has access to that who isn't a raider ... besides, they've got nothing good to use it on anyway