[dev1296] Aeonic Weapons

So true it kinda hurts and hits home a bit. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact too people are extremely afraid of failure and trying new things, so they stick to what the hive mind says is true, even if with some common sense thinking and a bit of testing you can see that's not true at all. Occasionally things are broken or OP, but I think the game is actually extremely balanced right now, peoples biases take far longer to change however. Papesse been showing ppl for a long time how great SMN can be with the right setups and ppl still want nothing to do with it lol. I also know a career DRK who outparses most ppl on any job they choose, and yet... they won't let him come as DRK.

I think you don't understand that adjustments or extra abilities doesn't always equate to being useful. My battery wyvern on drg is a very nice addition, however, even with my mythic and capped haste random Blu, smn, Sam, etc etc can come along half *** and beat me if I'm not on the very edge of my seat going all out. Most of those jobs can do it no matter what I do. I challenge any drg worth their parsing metal to SHOW ME what I'm missing but at the end of the day both us end up looking like special Olympic competitors while the gold medalist laugh at us from the sidelines eating popcorn on other jobs.

I can parse with most Koga Sam all day every day but if I had Koga I would be ahead of that same person by 10%or more at least. Everyone has a different baseline for who they are against. The Ls I'm with if you mess up any you just lost 3% at least or more if you make mistakes. There is no tolerance at that level for mistakes. I am in Anduril on Lakshmi so people like Strange, Kurgan, Byrth , Miang, Genoxd , etc. are definitely people who push you to the fullest extent of your abilities. Having the flavor of the month job talking about how underdog jobs are in the same league happens a lot on these forums. It's a bias response because deep down inside you know it's broken but don't want it nerfed to oblivion and useless again.

My predictions:

- These weapons, along with the other four types, are getting bumped to i124 (or higher?), to put all of the legendaries on the top tier on the way out.
- Aeonics will be completely solo focused in terms of building. Likely JP+Silt+maybe something from the new zone, but whatever it is, it won't require other people.
- The weapons will be type specific, like relics and empyreans, instead of job specific, like mythics.
- The armor will be 80% pointless. Most jobs will have one good piece.
- All of it will be Su3.

I hope to be proven wrong about half of those.

My predictions:

- These weapons, along with the other four types, are getting bumped to i124 (or higher?), to put all of the legendaries on the top tier on the way out.
- Aeonics will be completely solo focused in terms of building. Likely JP+Silt+maybe something from the new zone, but whatever it is, it won't require other people.
- The weapons will be type specific, like relics and empyreans, instead of job specific, like mythics.
- The armor will be 80% pointless. Most jobs will have one good piece.
- All of it will be Su3.

I hope to be proven wrong about half of those.

I'm betting on it being:

*Rhapsodies completion to unlock
*25k+ escha beads item
*killed all escha NMs that have known request items. IE the kinds that players did not have to figure out. (likely exception: WoC)
*an eschalixir requirement. (+2 only gives 200 points instead of 2000 & total points required is still 5980)
*base weapon which is either the JSE2's or new weapons that drop off NMs yet to be released.
*and some other currency item from the next zone as well.


For the weaponskills. I take what they said as to mean:
All these weapons will have a weaponskill that has a main property of t3 light or darkness, once you've used the weaponskill to tag aftermath, closing a t3 light open with darkness will then create t4 all element cosmic w/e skillchain?

Does that sound about what you guys think they meant?

This is pretty close to what I am expecting. Having to upgrade it with Eschalisers makes sense. Imagine if the JSE weapons from Ru'ann were the base versions and we didn't know it. Kinda makes sense if you think about it. Monstrosity had a system where you had to upgrade torques, and when it reached max rank, it transformed into the next version, and it did it several times.

25k beads is actually a really low amount. I wouldn't be surprised if it's quite a bit higher. Needing a KI from Silt would also makes sense, esp. if it costs over a million.

That's basically exactly how I suspect the WS/skillchains will work.

Summoner is great but needs a mythic, some specific gear, and the right setup/target in order to really shine. SMN also has a very high investment of time to even get the basic stuff. I think we forget sometimes, but look at everything you need for summoner- very high fame in multiple areas, completion of ToAU missions, completion of a lot of CoP, completion of WotG, etc.

Weapons should dispense a primeval brew every X hours. I mean cmon, the whole point of the Rhapsodies storyline is that you become a legitimate god so... where's my Gatorade?

Would be interesting if Aeonic weapons were augmentable and the augments came from turning in R/M/E. Like if you obtain the Aeonic lance, you get the new weapon skill, skill chain access, and base stats but if you turn in the lance + Ryunohige, you now have access to am1-3 of Ryu, on the Aeonic. Ditto for R/E. It wouldn't work for a lot of jobs unless they simply added jobs that didn't have R/M/E to existing weapons. Like geo to mjollner and empy club and Rune to Rag and Calad. Just throwing ideas out xD

For the weaponskills. I take what they said as to mean:
All these weapons will have a weaponskill that has a main property of t3 light or darkness, once you've used the weaponskill to tag aftermath, closing a t3 light open with darkness will then create t4 all element cosmic w/e skillchain?

I wonder if the sword will be called Atma Weapon because *** yes, it should be called Atma weapon.

Alot of the classic final weapon names are used up already though.

Yeah, an average player on BLU could probably dish out loads of damage. Just take the DD gearsets, the DD spell sets and go and do SR. Bam, depending on gear you've outparsed even BLUs who have played the job for years and if you have the gil to spend on +1 abjuration gear, pretty easy to do.

But, I really think the best BLUs aren't the ones doing the parse grabs (unless that's your sole role in the party, then I suppose that's your purpose). The best BLUs can adapt to their situation. Perform the best possible next action you could make. If the best action is to continue DD'ing to close your self light CDC, then do so. But sometimes, the best action involves healing other players, debuffing monsters (not just Tenebral Crush), trying to hold hate, or AoE mobs down, casting shadows to block a big nuke.