my personal thoughts about the Empyrean Weapons.
(incomeing rant!)
mythic and relic weapons are ungodly. and require a TUN of time and a compleate mega-giga ***load of money... when i first saw these i was hopeing they was going to be the break for the "casual" gamer for FFXI to get a weapon that resembles each job individualy.. like AF weapons. and wasn't crap
and had my hopes up that they was going to be at least medum in dificalty to get.... NOT
its most likely going to be another series of the ultra-high end mythic/relic type weapons that agan require ALOT of time. and ... suppriseingly. dosn't cost anything! give them props to that. but then agan. time IS money. and haveing to kill 50 T3 VNMs IN abyssa that is restricted acess for only 30 min day. more/less depending on what you preveusly had stored and how many stones you ahve etc. but the point is. the time is limited. and requires an entire group to be deadicated to helping just 1 iindividual for 50 items... is going to take at least 25 hours of abyssa. assume you kill 1 T3 every 30 min and this only grants 1 person the items needed... thats ALOT of time.. now. if you have a group of 18 and each of them is working on a Empyrean Weapon. its going to take 18x longer! 450 hours!
~18.75 days constent abyssa. and if you can only do 30 min a day. thats... 900 days! whoa! and thats just for the first stage. most likely more to come.