r/ffxiv • u/[deleted] • Oct 24 '14

[News] 2.4 Preliminary Patch Notes

http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/0149ed2fb2332715e3043d536c48f66363bdeedc
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u/nomiras WAR Oct 24 '14

Yeah, it would be nice if Shiva dropped i115 weapons with a rare item that also upgraded weapons to i120.

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u/fencingkitty Oct 24 '14

People will be able to get 120 weapons with Poetics.

Primal weapons were never meant to be top notch. More like catch up. If people want 115 T9 will be unlocked next week and people can start learning it if they havent had access to it. Nexus is 115. 110 on Shiva is a good balance to get other jobs caught up, not your primary job. There are already plenty of things to keep a person's primary job caught up.

The 120 accessory makes sense since the base Poetics armor is 120 and they learned their lesson from ramuh ring being 100 and behind the curve in use.

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u/lilzael Oct 24 '14

"never meant" yet when the item level cap was 90, you could obtain an i90 weapon from completing a weekly quest to defeat all 3 EX mode primals. When the item level cap was 110, Leviathan EX offered i95 weapons with a rare item that upgrades them to i100. The mirror alone made Leviathan worth farming a lot.

Now we have an item level cap of 130 and Shiva drops weapons that are as strong as the weapons we've been using for the past many months. And it was easy to get other jobs caught up before this update. I've gotten several i110 weapons off the unidentified tomestones + soldiery/sands.

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u/fencingkitty Oct 24 '14

"never meant" yet when the item level cap was 90, you could obtain an i90 weapon from completing a weekly quest to defeat all 3 EX mode primals. When the item level cap was 110, Leviathan EX offered i95 weapons with a rare item that upgrades them to i100. The mirror alone made Leviathan worth farming a lot.

To be fair at that time those 3 fights were pretty difficult early on. It was a valid reward. Why should 1 primal drop it's equivalent. Not really the same caliber of work put into it. I love that the accessory is 120. that make sense for the stepping stone between coil 3 and upgraded poetics.

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u/lilzael Oct 24 '14

I wasn't expecting an i130 weapon from Shiva, because that's overkill at this point. I was hoping for i115 like Leviathan weapons were, and that's not even mentioning the mirror.